Catherine Earnshaw

young Heathcliff once Mr. Earnshaw died. This is his attempt to get revenge for the how Heathcliff used to blackmail and threaten him. Though he was the first to demonstrate this type of manipulation, Heathcliff would have to be the main user of manipulation for the purpose of injuring others. After the rejection by Catherine his sole purpose in life becomes revenge, and he spares no expense to obtain it. One way he goes about getting his revenge is gambling with Hindley Earnshaw once he returns…

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 fascination and relationship with his half sister Catherine,…

love through the lives of her main characters. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s stubborn, romantic passion portrays the dark side of love. The characters’ intense passions and like-personalities cause much turmoil and destruction in their own lives as well as in all those around them. The next generation of lovers, Catherine Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw, evolve with time and are able to find success in a love that matures. Brontë offers Catherine and Heathcliff’s love story in contrast to…

distasteful. At a young age, 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…

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 to seek reprisal. Throughout this novel,…

his position and social status in the Earnshaw household after the death of Mr. Earnshaw. He wants to progress forward in his education and gain respect from the residents of Wuthering Heights but he gets nowhere with Hindley 's abuse and mistreatment and Catherine´s coercion. There are several limits that Heathcliff tries to overcome to rise above his status as a homeless orphan and later a slave with no education. Hindley´s abuse and degradation, Catherine´s actions and feelings towards him…

adopted into the Earnshaw family as an orphan, and his adoptive brother, hindley immediately takes a disliking to him because he was an orphan. Because Heathcliff is constantly treated as though he is inferior by Hindley he begins to develop a longing for revenge and inevitably goes insane, this illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole by highlighting one of the overarching themes, revenge. When Heathcliff is first brought to Wuthering Heights, he is immediately drawn to Catherine, and…

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 ill…

world of romance and isolation, the lives of her characters, Catherine and Heathcliff, revolve around one focal point: Wuthering Heights. Every experience in this book leads back to the Earnshaw estate. In the beginning of the novel, Brontë commits a paragraph to the definition of the word “wuthering”, foreshadowing the future significance of the symbolism of this building. After Nelly Dean introduces the backstory of Heathcliff and Catherine, distinct parallels between the two individuals and…

Heights, a servant with her mother. Owner Mr.Earnshaw, brings home an orphaned boy on his travels from Liverpool. Earnshaw children, Hindley and Catherine, despise the dark-skinned gypsy boy, Heathcliff. After the death of Mrs.Earnshaw, Mr.Earnshaw begins to dote on Heathcliff more than his own son. Earnshaw sends Hindley to college as punishment his cruelty towards Heathcliff. Earnshaw dies three years later, leaving Hindley and his wife Frances to inherit Wuthering Heights. Frances dies giving…