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What Happens At The End Of The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall?

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Max
Max
Brontë brings Helen’s story to a close in a deeply poetic and nuanced fashion. The inevitable death of Arthur Huntingdon, first exposed to the reader through Helen’s angry and hurtful diary entries, is not glorified, but rather brought about by natural illness, and Helen is shown to be full of moral fiber as she nurses him in his final days. His husband’s behavior is so disgusting that Gilbert has to struggle to come to terms with his own feelings of jealousy when he finds out that Helen is not a widow. His eventual reconciliation with her is deeply felt and provides a wonderful contrast to his earlier behavior. Reading her diary under a lamplight, Gilbert comes to realize Helen’s deep bravery in her own strength and voice.

In the remote, fictive future, Helen has indeed created a world of her own and, although the novel has not ended on a note of perfect happiness, a hard-won and quieter peace is epitomized as Helen continues to be an active agent in her life and shows that her salvation by love has been no triviality.
2026-01-16
Frank
Frank
At the end of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall the two stories that have comprised the novel of Helen Greaves as mysterious Tenant of Wildfell Hall and as diary-writer of her own devastating past are perfectly merged in a highly successful climax to the plot. The legal bars to freedom removed by Arthur Huntingdon’s death, it is left to Gilbert Markham to win Helen to marriage as a partner in every sense of the word, full recognition of her own great intellect and of the traumas she has undergone. And in the final drawing of the two of them together while their little son plays about in the background, Helen Greaves the woman and artist of deep power, is conquered and remains to conquer. Her art is her own.
2026-01-16
Hallie
Hallie
The resolution of Helen, the abused wife in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, is satisfying. Abused by her husband, Arthur Huntingdon, for years while he sank into drink and carries on inenricitous sexual behavior with many women, Helen finally left with her son, which she had managed to protect. She started a new life under a false identity of a widow. Her husband died and Helen was finally released from her unhappy marriage. Some years later, Gilbert Markham, the young farmer who had longed to find out more about the enigmatic woman of Wildfell Hall finally found out the true identity of the mysterious woman. After some painful misunderstandings Helen and Gilbert were finally able to get married. Helen’s way of life was different from that of most women of her time. She wanted to live her life as she saw fit even within her marriage and after her husband’s death. She wanted to keep her independence within her marriage to Gilbert.

I like the ending of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall very much. Helen’s happiness has been worked for and is not doled out to her. She keeps her independence within the marriage, which is incredibly radical for 1848, as well as a truly proto-feminist gesture. Bronte’s ending is contrasted beautifully with the bleak Wildfell Hall in the simple, pastoral surroundings of Gilbert’s farm, where Helen can finally begin to heal from the wounds she experienced during her time at Wildfell Hall.
2026-01-19

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