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Article: Wuthering Heights: the "initiatory step".(Critical Essay)
- Article from:
- Journal of Evolutionary Psychology
- Article date:
- March 1, 2004
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"An awful Sunday!" commenced the paragraph [of Catherine's diary] beneath [her drawn "caricature" of Joseph]. "I wish my father were back again. Hindley is a detestable substitute-his conduct to Heathcliff is atrocious--H. And I are going to rebel--we took our initiatory step this evening" (24;3).--Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights (1847)
[T]he concept of limen includes not only the Dionysian and polymorphous aspects, of human normlessness; it also includes the notions of the mystical and the ascetical. In this regard, there is usually a feeling that the human cultural order is a kind of painted veil over a deeper, superhuman order, the mysteries of which begin to ...