- In both ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’,
isolation is presented as deriving from the withholding of knowledge
and education, which serves to strengthen the isolation of such
victims to their lowly social standings.
- In Wuthering Heights, this takes the form of Hindley's denial of
Heathcliff's education following his inheritance of the Heights.
- As his master, Hindley possessed the 'power to make a fool of
Heathcliff; he took it into his head to degrade him'.
- Here, the dichotomous pairing of nouns 'power' and 'fool' works to
establish those without learning as holding a weak position in
society, such that it is the knowledge withheld from Heathcliff that
isolates him to the lowly role of 'servant'.
- Thus, Hindley is able to isolate Heathcliff to this position of
subserviency through the suppressing of his social and intellectual
development.
- Bronte furthers the sense of Heathcliff’s social isolation and the role
of education in strengthening this class divide by highlighting that
when 'deprived of the instructions of the curate', Heathcliff is left to
'labour out of doors instead'.
- The distancing of Heathcliff due to his lack of access to education
works to physically isolate him from the Heights.
- Not only prevalent literally speaking, the noun 'door' may also act as
a metaphor for the class barriers imposed upon Heathcliff as a result
of his lack of learning, which exacerbates this isolation.
- The strict stratification of class within ‘Wuthering Heights’ is not
independent to the moors, though, but rather acts as a microcosm
for the fragmentation of Victorian society as a whole
- poorer did not receive education whereas children of rich families
educated at home by a governess and would go to public schools if
boys- served to isolate the different classes, much like Hindley
isolating Heathcliff
- Hosseini, in ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, explores a similar concern
with the denial of education as a means to uphold hierarchal social
order, as it serves as a mechanism to isolate female characters to
subservient roles.
- - This is demonstrated through Nana's dismissal of Mariam's
education, she asks 'What's the sense in schooling a girl like you?
It's like shining a spittoon.'
- - The simile of 'shining a spittoon', not only highlights Nana's belief
in the futility of educating women but also demotes Mariam to the
position of a receptacle made for spitting into
- the act of spitting is symbolic of her treatment by dominating male
figures like Rasheed as a result of this lack of knowledge, isolation in
isolation is presented as deriving from the withholding of knowledge
and education, which serves to strengthen the isolation of such
victims to their lowly social standings.
- In Wuthering Heights, this takes the form of Hindley's denial of
Heathcliff's education following his inheritance of the Heights.
- As his master, Hindley possessed the 'power to make a fool of
Heathcliff; he took it into his head to degrade him'.
- Here, the dichotomous pairing of nouns 'power' and 'fool' works to
establish those without learning as holding a weak position in
society, such that it is the knowledge withheld from Heathcliff that
isolates him to the lowly role of 'servant'.
- Thus, Hindley is able to isolate Heathcliff to this position of
subserviency through the suppressing of his social and intellectual
development.
- Bronte furthers the sense of Heathcliff’s social isolation and the role
of education in strengthening this class divide by highlighting that
when 'deprived of the instructions of the curate', Heathcliff is left to
'labour out of doors instead'.
- The distancing of Heathcliff due to his lack of access to education
works to physically isolate him from the Heights.
- Not only prevalent literally speaking, the noun 'door' may also act as
a metaphor for the class barriers imposed upon Heathcliff as a result
of his lack of learning, which exacerbates this isolation.
- The strict stratification of class within ‘Wuthering Heights’ is not
independent to the moors, though, but rather acts as a microcosm
for the fragmentation of Victorian society as a whole
- poorer did not receive education whereas children of rich families
educated at home by a governess and would go to public schools if
boys- served to isolate the different classes, much like Hindley
isolating Heathcliff
- Hosseini, in ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’, explores a similar concern
with the denial of education as a means to uphold hierarchal social
order, as it serves as a mechanism to isolate female characters to
subservient roles.
- - This is demonstrated through Nana's dismissal of Mariam's
education, she asks 'What's the sense in schooling a girl like you?
It's like shining a spittoon.'
- - The simile of 'shining a spittoon', not only highlights Nana's belief
in the futility of educating women but also demotes Mariam to the
position of a receptacle made for spitting into
- the act of spitting is symbolic of her treatment by dominating male
figures like Rasheed as a result of this lack of knowledge, isolation in
