How does Bronte Create an Appropriate Atmosphere and Background to the Events of “Wuthering Heights” in the First Movement?

In the first movement of ‘Wuthering Heights’, Emily Bronte develops an intense atmosphere that is initiated in the very first chapter, and carried on throughout the novel. She develops these ideas, and uses the moors, the weather, the two houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, and the inhabitants of the houses to do this. Changes occur in the atmosphere, through changes in the physical nature of the novel, and the vivid depiction of anger, hatred and jealousy is only increased as the novel goes on, and the atmosphere builds up. Through Bronte’s way of accomplishing this, she puts forward a very suitable and accurate background from which the rest of the novel can flourish.
During Emily Bronte’s life, it was almost unheard of for this kind of intense, passionate writing to come from anyone, let alone a woman, and this secrecy, this façade that Bronte had to hide behind, a male pseudonym, makes the extreme concealment and the hidden emotions come across even mor...