1. To what extent do you think the setting of the novel contributes to, or informs, what takes place?

[Jen]

1. To what extent do you think the setting of the novel contributes to, or informs, what takes place? Do you think the moors are a character in their own right? How do you interpret Bronte's view of nature and the landscape?

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The moor is absolutely essential to the story it is almost a character in itself, everyone is cut off from the world around making feelings more intense.

[Lynn]

The moor isolates the characters from the bigger world.

[Pip]

The Yorkshire moors were so well described that when I finally visited them I felt as if I knew them well. They were an integral part of the story, from the childhood explorations of Cathy and Heathcliff to the snowing in of Mr Lockwood that is the impulse for the story.

[Diane]

I agree with you all. I thought the characters were very isolated.

[Patrick]

As others mentioned, isolation, which is something that the Brontë sisters knew oh so well... The moors contain the characters and it feels that there is not a lot of world(s) beyond its boundaries.

[Tracy]

The setting was such a big part of the story- I can still see them in my mind, and I've never been to them. They were dramatic, dark, lonely and brooding, like the characters. Especially Heathcliff.

[John]

As all have noted, the moors and the related isolation are absolutely essential to the story.

[Kristel]

the setting is important because it is the moors. I have not had the opportunity to visit them like Pip but it is something I would like to do some day. These moors show up in so many books.