에밀리 브론테 『폭풍의 언덕』: 감추기와 드러내기의 서술전략 = An Interweaving Narrative Skills of Concealing and Revealing in Wuthering Heights

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While reading Emily Bronte`s Wuthering Heights, the reader may feel a sense of puzzlement, as if (s)he were lost within a maze. Above all, the author herself deliberately attempts to conceal her female identify in the Victorian Age. (It is interesting to note that she had to publish the novel under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell.) Moreover, she employs a male narrator called Mr Lockwood to camouflage her voice and Identify. It is stlll debatable whether this strategy of concealment is an effective or not. Since there are no reliable narrators in the novel in question, there are what Wolfgang Iser calls indeterminacies of meaning in the text. So the reader is bound to remain puzzled in the process of reading the novel. Despite such complex narratorial devices designed to hide her female voice and identity, Emily Bront e simultaneously reveals her subversive views on Victorian society by demolishing a binary division between the gentleman and the savage, between the real and the unreal, between Christian and Anti-Christian, and so on. Together Heathcliff and Catherine indeed seems to impose a threat to Victorian values. Thus, it could be argued that Emily Bront e strikes a balancing act between concealing and revealing her subversive views. Since neither the narrator(s) nor the author offer any final commentary to the text, the reader is left with the challenging task of bridging the narrative gap engendered in the text. To successfully exit from the complex metaphorical maze of the novel, It is crucial to dismantle the complex narrative strategies employed.