How Does Heathcliff An Effective Character

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For a visual text to be effective characters must be hurt or destroyed.

Would you ever get married to someone who you don’t love to get back at someone you do love? Could you watch the love of you life go through dangerous inner torture? Should you be able to get through life where everything is calm and there is no drama, pain or darkness? These are some of the questions in which the director, Coky Giedroyc, wanted the audience to ask themselves when they were watching the film adaption of Wuthering Heights. The series was based off the 170 year old novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.

In Coky Giedroyc’s two-part television series Wuthering Heights we, as an audience, come to understand that his series was effective as many characters
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We also see a character who doesn’t get majorly hurt or destroyed at all in the series, Edgar. From these three characters we can come to understand how effective characters internal pian is for an audience.

What would you do if you always felt hurt and pain in your life? You always felt unwanted and torment? This is a struggle the character Heathcliff goes through daily. Heathcliff's inner elemental force is a strong storm which well reflects his true colours. Heathcliff is an obsessive character who has evident savage,wild and complex traits to his personality. Though his wild and savage storm it means that he will have clashes with other storms which will end up in destruction and pain. One of the major clashes between two elemental forces is between the characters of Hindley and Heathcliff. When these two meet it always ends pain for both people. One example of the two storms meeting is when Heathcliff and Hindley when they were children, Hindley will often refer to Heathcliff as a “Cuckoo in the nest.” This reference often hurt Heathcliff and fueled his hatred towards Hindley. Hindley referred to Heathcliff as a
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What would you do if the person who you felt most connected with in the world was always hurting? These are some of the emotional struggles which the character Cathy goes through in the film Wuthering Heights directed by Coky Giedroyc goes through. Since meeting Heathcliff, the character Cathy has always had a positive relationship with him and connected with Heathcliff on a very deep level. When they were children Cathy and Heathcliff were inseparable friends, however as they grew older their friendship evolved into an unbreakable bond where Cathy could feel and share Heathcliff’s pain with him. One example of Cathy’s pain through Heathcliff is when she talks to her servant Nelly, she says “My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries. If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be. Nelly, I am Heathcliff. Not as pleasure but as my own being!” In this quote we can see that all of the pain that Cathy has gone through has been impacted by Heathcliff. Whenever Heathcliff has felt emotional pain or isolation, Cathy shared these pains through and with Heathcliff all throughout her life. Even though at times Cathy and Heathcliff did not get along Cathy still shared Heathcliff’s emotions as if they were one being. Cathy’s storm was similar to Heathcliff's storm whenever she was around him, the elemental forces which control them are very similar but are also vastly different. In

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