The book is set in the Yorkshire moors in the 19th century. A gothic novel, Wuthering Heights explores the passionate and destructive relationship between Earnshaw, the daughter of a wealthy landowner ...

How would you interpret the poem? The wild rose-briar represents the beauty and excitement of romantic love. A rose is traditionally used as a symbol of love, and the poet adds ‘wild’ to ...

In the trailer, William appears to be something of a creative muse as well as Emily’s forbidden love, as the two frolic together amid the rugged terrain of the Haworth moors. Writer and ...

Brontë starts the poem with a simile, comparing love to ‘the wild rose-briar’. She goes on to show how the rose changes through the seasons, implying that love will also fade. Friendship ...

Love is like the wild rose-briar, Friendship like the holly-tree — The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms But which will bloom most constantly? The wild rose-briar is sweet in spring ...