Novels, in general, are entitled according to three basic ways; the names of the heroes or heroines or the principal
characters; the places where the actions take place, and the basic themes or values presented or even symbols. When a novelist gives his/ her novel the name of a certain place, this certainly means that the place is of some significance.
This study aims at investigating the significance of the places depicted by two female English novelists in two novels: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. In these two novels, places are very important because of the effect of these places on the people who occupy them. Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, in Bronte's novel, have a significant value concerning both the Earnshaws and the Lintons, the two central families in the novel, because of the effect of the people who live in one place on those who live in the other either positively or negatively. London, Portsmouth, and Mansfield Park, in Austen's novel, are the three places in which the inhabitants of one place affect the people who live in the other two and particularly on Mansfield Park, the place of order and harmony. The place may have either a positive and constructive effect or a negative and destructive one.
Al-Baath University Journal.
2012.
Significance of places in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
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