The novel Wuthering Heights provides some interesting themes to ponder on. The complexity and strangeness of the story leaves a lot of it to be deciphered by the reader, instead of just placed on the pages in front of them. It is also interesting to see also how the characters interact and wind up in many cases rather similar to another. It seems that everyone in the book has a duplicate in some form or another. In the instance of Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw, their similarities are very recognizable. They are similar in the ways they were raised, the way they treat others, and the ways they react to things that anger them. Heathcliff and Hareton were both raised in very similar manners. For example they were both raised in the same house.
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Heathcliff as a young man was rather quiet yet quite respectable to those he encountered. However, certain people tried to keep Heathcliff at the bottom and a rather detestable human being. Most notably at this was Hindley, who had never really took a liking to the strange gypsy child his father brought home after a long journey. After Mr. Earnshaw died Hindley began to put Heathcliff where he thought he belonged, down on the bottom with the servants. This action drove Heathcliff to be increasingly despondent and all in all a much ruder version of himself. An action that further drove Heathcliff to his rude treatment of others was Catherine Earnshaw’s marriage to Edgar Linton. Heathcliff seemed to at this point believe the world had turned against him, and in turn began to try and turn himself against the world. This is shown in how his plans to ruin both the Earnshaw’s and Linton’s progressed to their eventual completion. Although this plan was eventually outdone by the sudden formation of an alliance between Hareton and Cathy Linton Heathcliff, who is the daughter of Catherine and Edgar. This put an end to Heathcliff’s ill ways of tormenting the two of them as he gave up his plan, and subsequently died after starving himself. In a similar manner, Hareton went through the same thing. As a young child Hareton was well behaved. However, after Heathcliff returned and was living at the Heights. …show more content…
While both Hareton and Heathcliff may seem like heartless brutes with no regard for anyone but themselves, they both have a tendency to correct some of their wrongs. This is most notable with Heathcliff after one of the many fights with Hindley. During the fight, Heathcliff soundly beat his opponent in the fight and left Hindley sprawled on the floor unconscious and bleeding. However, instead of leaving him there, he proceeded to bind his wounds and carry him up to his room. A very similar instance was seen with Hareton during an argument with Linton Heathcliff. At a point in the argument Linton became so enraged he fainted to the floor and was bleeding from the mouth. Hareton having been a cause of this episode, picked up linton and carried him to his room. These two incidents show that while both Hareton and Heathcliff were quite brute-like in some of their discourse, they still had the heart to assist their
Heathcliff as a young man was rather quiet yet quite respectable to those he encountered. However, certain people tried to keep Heathcliff at the bottom and a rather detestable human being. Most notably at this was Hindley, who had never really took a liking to the strange gypsy child his father brought home after a long journey. After Mr. Earnshaw died Hindley began to put Heathcliff where he thought he belonged, down on the bottom with the servants. This action drove Heathcliff to be increasingly despondent and all in all a much ruder version of himself. An action that further drove Heathcliff to his rude treatment of others was Catherine Earnshaw’s marriage to Edgar Linton. Heathcliff seemed to at this point believe the world had turned against him, and in turn began to try and turn himself against the world. This is shown in how his plans to ruin both the Earnshaw’s and Linton’s progressed to their eventual completion. Although this plan was eventually outdone by the sudden formation of an alliance between Hareton and Cathy Linton Heathcliff, who is the daughter of Catherine and Edgar. This put an end to Heathcliff’s ill ways of tormenting the two of them as he gave up his plan, and subsequently died after starving himself. In a similar manner, Hareton went through the same thing. As a young child Hareton was well behaved. However, after Heathcliff returned and was living at the Heights. …show more content…
While both Hareton and Heathcliff may seem like heartless brutes with no regard for anyone but themselves, they both have a tendency to correct some of their wrongs. This is most notable with Heathcliff after one of the many fights with Hindley. During the fight, Heathcliff soundly beat his opponent in the fight and left Hindley sprawled on the floor unconscious and bleeding. However, instead of leaving him there, he proceeded to bind his wounds and carry him up to his room. A very similar instance was seen with Hareton during an argument with Linton Heathcliff. At a point in the argument Linton became so enraged he fainted to the floor and was bleeding from the mouth. Hareton having been a cause of this episode, picked up linton and carried him to his room. These two incidents show that while both Hareton and Heathcliff were quite brute-like in some of their discourse, they still had the heart to assist their