Which of the following is a true statement about the novel Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, first published in 1847?

The dynamic antagonism or antithesis in the novel tends to subvert, if not to reject, literary conventions. In Wuthering Heights, realism in presenting Yorkshire landscape and life and the historical precision of season, dates, and hours co-exist with the dreamlike and the unhistorical.

The protagonists' wanderings are rarely motivated by flight from previously-chosen goals. Consider Catherine's marriage for social position, stability, and wealth, her efforts to evade the consequences of her marriage.

The protagonists are driven by irresistible passion–lust, curiosity, ambition, intellectual pride, envy. The emphasis is on their desire for transcendence, to overcome the limitations of the body, of society, of time rather than their moral transgressions. They yearn to escape the limitations inherent to life and may find that the only escape is true love. The longings of Heathcliff can be fulfilled only by Catherine.

Death is not only a literal happening or plot device, but also and primarily a psychological concern. For the protagonists, death will end their happiness in being truly loved.

Although in Gothic fiction buildings are central to meaning, the supernatural, wild nature, dream and madness, physical violence, and perverse sexuality are set off against social conventions and institutions. Initially, this may create the impression that the novel is two books in one, but finally Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights fuse.