THE LANGUAGE OF ABERRANCY: RE(VIEWING) NUANCES OF DEFORMITY AND DISABILITY ISSUES IN EMILY BRONTE’S WUTHERING HEIGHTS

Authors

  • Dr. Bindu Ann Philip, Ms. Noble A. Paliath

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25215/8198963324.04

Abstract

The existing article is an undertaking to trace, fish out, explore and further navigate and problematize the textual manifestations, exhibitions and interpretations of disability and debility issues, concerns and representations in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, a tour de force even in the contemporary times, listed from among the magnificently pompous, inescapably rich, passionately gorgeous and invariably discrete bough of the whole canon of English literature. The very act of perusing and scrutinizing this exquisite work of art that got created and fashioned in the nineteenth century, is in itself, an insanely disturbing, irresistibly discomforting, highly irritating, profoundly annoying and appreciably strenuous and is to mention also an aesthetically disabling and nervous kind of experience. The undeniable and indisputable presence of this toxic and suffocating climate generated and populated by a horde of rarely noticed and hitherto unaccustomed dramatis personae gets meticulously portrayed by the disordered narration of the novelist as is clearly evident and obviously discernible in the language of deformity, abnormality, oddity, aberrancy and irregularity thereby making the text under study and examination, inexorably and adamantly analyzable to the core in all conceivable and feasible perspectives, ways and angles.

Published

2025-10-15