Wuthering Heights And Frankenstein Comparison Essay

Wuthering Heights is a story about acceptance and love, but also one of judgment and revenge. It is a tale of a family, the Earnshaws, who took in a young gypsy boy whom they named Heathcliff, who was on his own. When Mr. Earnshaw brought this boy home his children, Hindley and Catherine, weren’t all too happy to have him around, Hindley more so because Heathcliff came to be Mr. Earnshaw’s favorite son. Heathcliff was one of them even though not by blood, and was taught to read and write like the others. Catherine soon came to adore Heathcliff and spent most, if not all of her time with him. They were both wild and free spirited, spending most of their time together at the Moors dreaming of what life could be while Hindley was sent away from home for …show more content…
Genesis is the origin or mode of formation of something and parenting is just that, parenting. How we treat our children and raise them. In this sense there is no difference between the two, both are one in the same. In Wuthering Heights the “monster”, Heathcliff, was created out of hate. He started off as a scared young boy who was brought into a family torn apart by his being there. His “brother”, Hindley, despised him and treated him as if he were scum always berating him, and his “sister”, Catherine, loved him but chose another because she didn’t want to be degraded by him in the eyes of others. Because Hindley treated Heathcliff as if he was nothing but a poor slave, Catherine made her decision to marry another, someone of money, based on that treatment. This in turn created a “monster”, a person who wanted to get nothing but revenge for the hurt that was placed upon him. Heathcliff in turn did the same to Hindley’s son Hareton, he treated him as a slave. But, in Hareton’s case there were no lessons, he didn’t know how to read or write until his cousin Catherine came around. She taught the