Character Comparison: Younger Heathcliff vs. Older Heathcliff
Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Brontë, published in the year 1847. Wuthering Heights – a farmhouse – is the location of where the novel is set, along with the property of the Lintons, Thrushcross Grange. The main themes in the novel are jealousy (caused by love) and vengeance. There is an ongoing feud between two families, 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.
Heathcliff is an orphan taken off the streets by Mr. Earnshaw and brought into the Earnshaw household at Wuthering Heights. In the novel Heathcliff is first described as a “dark skinned gypsy in …show more content…
When he returns he is a changed man, even though he became rich and more mannered, he was cruel. He expresses his revenge through violence; this is because he was treated badly by Hindley for most of his childhood. Heathcliff is the victim who turned into the offender. The way he sought revenge on Hindley was he inherited wuthering heights and Hindleys son, Hareton. In chapter 17 Heathcliff tells Hareton: “Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we’ll see if one tree won’t grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!” The tree in this quote refers to Heathcliff and Hareton, and the wind represents how something is treated in the same way. Heathcliff was treated badly by Hindley and for revenge Heathcliff he will treat Hareton the same way he was
Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Brontë, published in the year 1847. Wuthering Heights – a farmhouse – is the location of where the novel is set, along with the property of the Lintons, Thrushcross Grange. The main themes in the novel are jealousy (caused by love) and vengeance. There is an ongoing feud between two families, 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.
Heathcliff is an orphan taken off the streets by Mr. Earnshaw and brought into the Earnshaw household at Wuthering Heights. In the novel Heathcliff is first described as a “dark skinned gypsy in …show more content…
When he returns he is a changed man, even though he became rich and more mannered, he was cruel. He expresses his revenge through violence; this is because he was treated badly by Hindley for most of his childhood. Heathcliff is the victim who turned into the offender. The way he sought revenge on Hindley was he inherited wuthering heights and Hindleys son, Hareton. In chapter 17 Heathcliff tells Hareton: “Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we’ll see if one tree won’t grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!” The tree in this quote refers to Heathcliff and Hareton, and the wind represents how something is treated in the same way. Heathcliff was treated badly by Hindley and for revenge Heathcliff he will treat Hareton the same way he was