Symbols of Light and Dark in Wuthering Heights Beware of Binary opposites!
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Symbols of Light and Dark in Wuthering Heights
Beware of Binary opposites!
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The forces and figures of darkness are affiliated with + the value of energy and – the threat of chaos
HEATHCLIFF
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The forces and figures of light are affiliated with + the value of order and – the threat of sterility
EDGAR LINTON
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• Pure darkness makes for destruction and anarchy
• Pure light makes for sterility and stasis
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• Heathcliff, dark in nature and cut off from the light, becomes pure destructive energy
• Linton Heathcliff, light in nature and cut off from the energy of darkness, becomes frozen in sterile impotence
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Nietzsche
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Nietzsche called the light and dark the Apollonian and Dionysian impulses in life. Psychic integration depends on the human capacity to blend the Apollonian and Dionysian into a life of ordered energy