Macbeth and Wuthering Heights In these pieces of literature they share the same traits. Both stories have complicated relationships with the main characters. The destructive love within the relationships in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. These authors show those characteristics as in today’s time. Both of these stories portray the same traits and characteristics. The first thing they share is women getting control in a relationship. In Macbeth, Lady Macbeth controls Macbeth by “rhetorical manipulation” as stated by Linda Hutcheon. Lady Macbeth Manipulates Macbeth by questioning his manhood, saying “then you were a man “ (1.7.49). She also says to him “I would, while
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The witches prophecy is what makes the relationship go bad. Lady Macbeth found the letter “Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me, 'Thane of Cawdor'; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that shalt be!...”(1.5 5-8). After the first battle when Banquo and Macbeth came across the witches, they said,“All hail , Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!”, “All hail, Macbeth hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!”, “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (1.3 48-50). Their relationship went bad because Lady Macbeth found the letter that Macbeth wrote to her saying that he will be king from the witches prophecy and she decided to murder Duncan. Their relationship got worse when Macbeth visited the witches for a second time when they told him the three apparitions. The first apparition “ Beware Macduff” (4.1 71), second apparition “No man born of woman shall harm Macbeth” (4.1 80-81), and the third apparition “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane Hill shall come against him” (4.1 92-94).
Insiders are a relationship destruction. In Wuthering Heights Edgar was one of them. He took Catherine’s heart and hand in marriage and she told Nelly “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff..” (Bronte 81). Catherine’s choice to do that ruined more than just Heathcliff’s …show more content…
Heathcliff had ambitions to make them feel the pain he did when Catherine decided to marry Edgar (pg. 78). The ambition Heathcliff had ended up paying off for his son and Catherine’s daughter. Ambition made Heathcliff abusive towards his family. His ambition for revenge had made Hareton turn out barbaric.
In the tragedy Macbeth and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights they are very similar. They share the same characteristics and traits. Both have almost the same story line with the hero ends up dying when it’s going good for them. Ambition is the distinctive characteristic in these stories. They show another similarity which is destructive love in relationships and how they go bad. Both stories are almost the same besides time and place but same traits.
Works Cited Allen, Janet. Holt McDougal Literature. Orlando, FL, Holt McDougal/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights with Connections. Austin, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000.
Galef, David. “Keeping One's Distance: Irony and Doubling in ‘Wuthering Heights.’” Vol. 24, no. 3, 1992, pp. 242–250., www.jstor.org/stable/29532870. Accessed 27 Apr.
The witches prophecy is what makes the relationship go bad. Lady Macbeth found the letter “Whiles I stood rapt in the wonder of it, came missives from the king, who all-hailed me, 'Thane of Cawdor'; by which title, before, these weird sisters saluted me, and referred me to the coming on of time, with 'Hail, king that shalt be!...”(1.5 5-8). After the first battle when Banquo and Macbeth came across the witches, they said,“All hail , Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!”, “All hail, Macbeth hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!”, “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” (1.3 48-50). Their relationship went bad because Lady Macbeth found the letter that Macbeth wrote to her saying that he will be king from the witches prophecy and she decided to murder Duncan. Their relationship got worse when Macbeth visited the witches for a second time when they told him the three apparitions. The first apparition “ Beware Macduff” (4.1 71), second apparition “No man born of woman shall harm Macbeth” (4.1 80-81), and the third apparition “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to High Dunsinane Hill shall come against him” (4.1 92-94).
Insiders are a relationship destruction. In Wuthering Heights Edgar was one of them. He took Catherine’s heart and hand in marriage and she told Nelly “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff..” (Bronte 81). Catherine’s choice to do that ruined more than just Heathcliff’s …show more content…
Heathcliff had ambitions to make them feel the pain he did when Catherine decided to marry Edgar (pg. 78). The ambition Heathcliff had ended up paying off for his son and Catherine’s daughter. Ambition made Heathcliff abusive towards his family. His ambition for revenge had made Hareton turn out barbaric.
In the tragedy Macbeth and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights they are very similar. They share the same characteristics and traits. Both have almost the same story line with the hero ends up dying when it’s going good for them. Ambition is the distinctive characteristic in these stories. They show another similarity which is destructive love in relationships and how they go bad. Both stories are almost the same besides time and place but same traits.
Works Cited Allen, Janet. Holt McDougal Literature. Orlando, FL, Holt McDougal/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights with Connections. Austin, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000.
Galef, David. “Keeping One's Distance: Irony and Doubling in ‘Wuthering Heights.’” Vol. 24, no. 3, 1992, pp. 242–250., www.jstor.org/stable/29532870. Accessed 27 Apr.