Cruelty is a vital tool in the development of the amazing story that Wuthering Heights is comprised of. It comes as a great surprise because such a classic beautiful story is the last place that someone would look for such violent, sadistic acts. The book has such a light calm atmosphere in the beginning, but this soon turns into a dark cruel one. This atmosphere is perfectly created using the cruel acts throughout that book, while these same acts reveal a lot about some of the main characters. Violence and cruelty against certain animals and creatures is perfectly implemented to surround the novel with a very dark aura. This is the first transition into this darkness: "Terror made me cruel...I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bed-clothes" (22). This is when the more cruel side Lockwood is revealed when he scrapes the wrists of the ghost of Catherine purposely trying to harm her. He seems like such a nice person, but this shows that he may not be the nice, friendly person that he was originally thought to be. This is somewhat similar to how some serial killers such as Ted Bundy who seemed like a completely normal, friendly guy but had a bad side that he hid from everyone.
Animals are abused everyday in modern times and this is no different in this novel. Such as this quote: ”...and I got a stone and thrust it between his jaws, and tried with all my might to cram it down his throat” (45). In a …show more content…
This world is full of torture, crime, and abuse so it has become almost desensitized to how terrible it can be. Cruelty is what made Heathcliff into such a terrible person which is why the most important themes in the book exist and what made this classic stand out against many of the books written in this time period. Cruelty will never fully go away, it will only continue to create monsters like Heathcliff, who come to make great impacts and only spread
Animals are abused everyday in modern times and this is no different in this novel. Such as this quote: ”...and I got a stone and thrust it between his jaws, and tried with all my might to cram it down his throat” (45). In a …show more content…
This world is full of torture, crime, and abuse so it has become almost desensitized to how terrible it can be. Cruelty is what made Heathcliff into such a terrible person which is why the most important themes in the book exist and what made this classic stand out against many of the books written in this time period. Cruelty will never fully go away, it will only continue to create monsters like Heathcliff, who come to make great impacts and only spread