Catherine Earnshaw

She did become a good companion to the children, as she was available to them for advice when they had problems. For instance, when Catherine bursted into the home and exclaimed that, “I want to know what I should do. Today, Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him, and I’ve given him an answer” (Brontë 79), she made Catherine go through everything she loves about Edgar to ensure she is making the right choice of choosing him over her other lover, Heathcliff. Nelly also sympathized…

novel of love, deceit, and revenge. Catherine Earnshaw loves Heathcliff, but marries Edgar Linton instead. The story’s narrator Ellen Dean, a housemaid, describes Catherine as dramatic and manipulative. She believes Catherine uses her emotions as a ploy to get her way. Catherine's husband Edgar would disagree. In his eyes Catherine uses her intellect and emotions to prove a point, but these emotions at times do alarm him. Both Ellen and Edgar believe Catherine is manipulative, but each views her…

judgment and revenge. It is a tale of a family, the Earnshaws, who took in a young gypsy boy whom they named Heathcliff, who was on his own. When Mr. Earnshaw brought this boy home his children, Hindley and Catherine, weren’t all too happy to have him around, Hindley more so because Heathcliff came to be Mr. Earnshaw’s favorite son. Heathcliff was one of them even though not by blood, and was taught to read and write like the others. Catherine soon came to adore Heathcliff and spent most, if…

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…

by the urbanization that is happening in the more industrialized areas in England. Heathcliff is a perfect example of how industrialization is effecting Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff was originally brought into the house after he was found by Mr. Earnshaw abandoned to the streets of Liverpool. Despite being taken into a higher society classed family, Heathcliff was not accepted by everyone because of his lower class birth status, until he went away and obtained a fortune probably through an…

contributed towards an intimate relationship and eventually marriage. In Emily Bronte’s mid-19th century classic epic, Wuthering Heights, Cathy Earnshaw limits her ability to love Heathcliff because of her high concerns regarding status. Although in the beginning Cathy and her daughter have a similar condescending behavior towards their companions, in the end Catherine detaches herself from the importance of class. Utilizing these two characters. Bronte not only distinguishes that happiness is…

In two classic examples of Victorian era literature, Wuthering Heights and North and South, the theme of isolation has been particularly prevalent. Not only are the settings of each novel physically secluded, but the characters themselves have been inwardly isolated. In North & South, Margaret Hale’s father’s sudden decision to leave the Church prompted her move to the industrial North, making Margaret alone in her opinions and her way of living. Wuthering Heights, on the other hand, has an…

leading to his downfall. Bronte’s novel centers on the tempestuous characters of Catherine Earnshaw, a young headstrong girl in love with her childhood friend Heathcliff, a young orphaned boy whose parentage is unknown and is told through Nelly Dean, whose mother was a servant at Wuthering Heights, where Heathcliff, Catherine, and her brother Hindley were raised. Furthermore, Heathcliff allows…

degrades Hareton is the perfect illustration of this, Heathcliff has no real reason to do this and is simply using Hareton as a tool in order to get vengeance on Hindley Earnshaw. He also treats with son terribly and sees him as no more than a means through which to exact his revenge on Edgar Linton and Cathy's daughter, Catherine. When he first meets his son he refers to him as 'my property' (p.g 150) and remarks that 'Only nobody else must be kind to him' (p.g 151), this suggests, not only a…

Heights takes multiple forms, and is a central value in which characters hold dear to their lives. Two characters in particular that demonstrate romantic love and how it can lead to issues such as dysfunctional relationships are Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. The relationship that the two protagonists hold is both extremely flawed and unsustainable…