Hindley Earnshaw

said, “To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves” (BrainyQuote). In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, the novel’s primary antagonist, Heathcliff, spends the majority of his life being angry. Heathcliff, an orphan adopted by the Earnshaws, a family of the gentry class in British society, falls in love with their daughter, Catherine. Therefore, Catherine’s eventual decision to marry Edgar Linton because of his social status, instead of her childhood lover Heathcliff, spurs him…

family is refined by popular opinion and well mannered. The Earnshaw family starts out as genuinely decent people, but as time moves on they become more aggressive and less sensible. The family relationship begins to degrade when Mr. Earnshaw brings home an abandoned child, named Heathcliff, instead of the toys he promised to purchase for Catherine and Hindley. After Mrs. Earnshaw dies, Mr. Earnshaw begins to grow fonder of Heathcliff than Hindley. Heathcliff develops a deep, unchanging…

when Catherine dies he asks for Catherine to haunt him till he is able to reunite with her and he becomes a very wicked man. This cruelty is experienced throughout the book and only dies with the death of the characters that initiated it including Hindley, Heathcliff, Catherine and even Edgar. Like the theme above stated one cruel action lead to a continues until it is stopped by an act of love and this was the case in this novel. An example is seen when Catherine no longer talks back but tries…

Two Houses Emily Bronte 's Wuthering Heights takes place at Thrushcross Grange, Wuthering Heights, and the road connecting the two. Both houses have their own sets of flaws and virtues that become muddled in-between. The two houses are polar opposites and the characters are by products of the houses. The traits of the Heights and of the Grange are found clearly in the characters. The houses traits foreshadow the characteristics of the characters. The characters take on the qualities of the…

Heathcliff had been adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, who was at the time owner of a farmer of ‘Wuthering Heights. ' During that period, Heathcliff grew up with Earnshaw’s children, and including Catherine’s and Hindley’s. Also, Catherine fell in love with Heathcliff, but Hindley was jealous of Heathcliff’s close relationship with his adopted parent (Mr. Earnshaw). Eventually, Heathcliff’s adopted father, Mr. Earnshaw became ill and then he later passed away. But, Hindley hates Heathcliff with a passion,…

showing that his revenge is driven by his desire for his father’s lov3e: “Hindley hated him…[he] had learned to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend, and Heathcliff as a usurper of his parent 's affections and his privileges; and he grew bitter” (38). With regards to human nature, Brontë hints that the desire for love can drive people to turn against those they used to or should have cared for. Hindley turns against his father, whom he previously loved, and Heathcliff, who he…

To be destroyed is to be rendered useless or completely defeated and is a state that can be brought upon by oneself or others. In Coky Giedroyc’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte’s characters are hurt and destroyed in order for significant ideas to be conveyed, making it a more effective text as audiences are able to understand ideas that may not be in plain sight. Wuthering Heights is set during the Victorian Era and centres around Cathy and Heathcliff 's developing romance and the…

him and Hindley Earnshaw. She constantly feels trapped in her marriage and the hostile environment at Wuthering Heights, but she finds respite by delving into books: “I dared hardly lift my eyes from the page before me, that melancholy scene so instantly usurped its place” (191). Through reading, Isabella is able to mentally escape the tension and hostility between Heathcliff and Hindley within the world of her books. Edgar Linton also finds ease in books, as seen when Catherine Earnshaw falls…

The differences between Hareton Earnshaw and Linton Heathcliff’s childhoods are that Hareton grew up as a lonely orphan subjected to Heathcliff’s severe abuse from an early age, whereas Linton’s loving mother raised him through his childhood in a nice, pampered lifestyle. In Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, Hareton is more pitiable than Linton since he was raised as a pawn of Heathcliff’s revenge and his naivety of this maltreatment ruined his life. Hareton’s ignorance of Heathcliff’s…

the Earnshaws and the Lintons over the inheritance of property. In Wuthering Heights, one of the main characters is Heathcliff Earnshaw. Heathcliff is portrayed as a bitter character when he is an adult (when he returns to Wuthering Heights as a rich man) however when he is a young boy (before he ran away) and first adopted by Mr. Earnshaw he is quite silent and keeps to himself. His change in personality was most likely due to how he was treated by Catherine and her older brother Hindley.…