Throughout the duration of Wuthering Heights, the characters such as Heathcliff and Hindley embody traits similar to her brother that immensely impacted her life. Her brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, suffered from the effects from being an alcoholic and a drug addict. Patrick died at a young age of 31 from tuberculosis. Patrick is noted having an abusive and aggressive behavior towards others. Likewise, Hindley and Heathcliff often possess aggressive tendencies towards others in the novel. Hindley, like Patrick Brontë, suffered from alcoholism. Hindley’s problems with alcohol and drugs produce an environment for abusive tendencies towards others. One instance of his drunken wrath is when he “drank the spirits and impatiently bade us to go,
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Similar to what happened during Brontë’s life, her brother Patrick would often come home drunk and mistreat the people in her family. As with Hindley, he mistreats those in Wuthering Heights. Another instance of his aggressive behavior is when Hindley visits Nelly drunk one evening. Due to his state of drunkenness and inability to process and receive information, Hindley acts aggressively towards Nelly. As Berg writes, “the violence against the women in Wuthering Heights is frequently direct at the head, and two of the most vivid examples focus on the mouth: Hindley tries to force a knife down Nelly’s throat… These incidents are clearly sexualized: the lips, as Irigaray explains in ‘When Our Lips Speak Together,’ frequently symbolizes female genitalia” (Berg 64). Emily Brontë proposes to the reader that she might have been a victim to sexual assault by her brother. Sexual assault is very common during the time period as women were viewed more as objects than fellow human beings with intellect and emotions. Her brother died because of the harmful effects of his addictions and tuberculosis. Similarly, Hindley is immensely impacted by these causes and also
Similar to what happened during Brontë’s life, her brother Patrick would often come home drunk and mistreat the people in her family. As with Hindley, he mistreats those in Wuthering Heights. Another instance of his aggressive behavior is when Hindley visits Nelly drunk one evening. Due to his state of drunkenness and inability to process and receive information, Hindley acts aggressively towards Nelly. As Berg writes, “the violence against the women in Wuthering Heights is frequently direct at the head, and two of the most vivid examples focus on the mouth: Hindley tries to force a knife down Nelly’s throat… These incidents are clearly sexualized: the lips, as Irigaray explains in ‘When Our Lips Speak Together,’ frequently symbolizes female genitalia” (Berg 64). Emily Brontë proposes to the reader that she might have been a victim to sexual assault by her brother. Sexual assault is very common during the time period as women were viewed more as objects than fellow human beings with intellect and emotions. Her brother died because of the harmful effects of his addictions and tuberculosis. Similarly, Hindley is immensely impacted by these causes and also