Comparison between Virginia Woolf and Emily BronteVirginia Woolf and Emily Bronte possess striking similarities in their works. Both works have inanimate objects as key plot points. For Bronte, Wuthering Heights plays a key role in the story. The atmosphere of the house changes as the characters are introduced to it. Before Heathcliff, the Heights was a place of discipline but also of love. The children got along well with each other, and although Nelly was not a member of the family, she played and ate with them too. When old Mr. Earnshaw went to Liverpool, he asked the children what they wanted him to bring them as a present and also promised Nelly a “handful of apples and pears” (WH 28). Heathcliff's presence changed the heights, "So, from the first, he had sown evil feelings in the house" (WH 30). The Heights became a dream location for Catherine (1) when she married Linton and moved to Grange. For her it contained memories of Heathcliff and their love. For his daughter Cathy it became a prison; trapped in a loveless marriage in a cold stone house, far from the opulence and luxury of the home she was accustomed to. Then, upon Heathcliff's death, I can almost see, in my mind's eye, the Heights themselves relaxing into the warm earth that surrounds them, with the knowledge that they too are once again safe from vengeance, bitterness and evil. I hate that they hosted them. within its walls for over twenty years. For Woolf, the inanimate object that is at the center of her plot is the mirror. He sees everything, both inside and out, and his reflection is a foreshadowing of what unfolds in the story. It provides the foreshadowing of an ominous presence and the mystery that follows: “Suddenly these reflections were violently interrupted and yet without sound. A large black shape loomed in the mirror; he erased everything, sprinkled the table with a packet of pink and gray veined marble tablets, and disappeared” (Woolf, Longman 2454). The mirror is used to create tension in the audience. This is very similar to how both time and Heights serve in Wuthering Heights. In a way it's almost as if the mirror has a disturbing kind of power. of the objects stored in it.