Catherine Earnshaw

the novel. Before Heathcliff became apart of the Earnshaw family, he was an orphan likely of gypsy origins. When Mr. Earnshaw brings him home, just having darker skin causes resentment from others. Catherine and Hindley are especially resentful of this new child, as one usually is when a new “baby” is brought home. Catherine fortunately become less resentful, and Mr. Earnshaw has a natural love for the boy as he brought him home. Mrs. Earnshaw and Hindley…

evident in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The romance between Catherine and Heathcliff can most certainly be described as uncanny as they have an unquestionable love for one another yet they betray each other’s souls by choosing to marry others. However, both characters selfishly continue their relationship, ignoring their marriages which is sufficient evidence to suggest how much of an inseparable bond they share. The appearance of Catherine as a ghost that wanders the moors of the Heights…

warmer and more welcoming, civilized location which could have benefitted Heathcliff a lot more than the isolation of the Heights. It is quite clear that Heathcliff doesn’t really have much of an identity within the novel, he was taken in by the Earnshaw family and given the name of a dead son but lacked a surname which would prove he belonged. Throughout the novel Heathcliff battled with himself and many others which gave off the impression that he was a violent individual but according to…

In the novel Wuthering Heights Heathcliff was adopted by the Earnshaw family. He suffered a lot throughout his childhood and even when he was an adult already. He was mistreated and fell in love with Catherine Earnshaw who was the daughter of the family that adopted him. They both lived under the same roof and that later brought many conflicts and injustice into Heathcliff's life. When Heathcliff’s adoptive dad, Mr.Earnshaw past away, Hindley his adoptive brother took over the house and became…

Heathcliff’s sister/soulmate, Catherine, married Edgar Linton due to his better social standard. Even though Catherine was only deeply in love with Heathcliff, she did not want to move down in the social ladder. Agitated by her choice and eventually depressed due to Catherine’s death , Heathcliff sets out another plot of revenge…

the famous novels since its genesis in 1700 in England. The two novels have similar stories of which they share poetic devises such as setting, plots and style among others. In simple terms, the family of woodhouse that is in Emma and the family of Earnshaw in wuthering Heights have almost similar background. Therefore, this essay explains how love, marriage and social demands are demonstrated in the two novels. Love is a cross-cutting issue among people who are involved in a relationship…

as it takes to make Edgar and Catherine jealous and upset. Which was part of his plan since he knew he could no longer marry Catherine since she is married to Edgar, and that much more Heathcliff can make Edgar mad by marrying Isabella. Heathcliff puts up a good front to make Isabella fall in love with him, but he begins to be cruel to her while at Wuthering Heights. So much that she feels the only way to get out of her situation is to kill Heathcliff. As Catherine is dying, Heathcliff demands…

Gothic elements such as a disturbed family line and hysteria, which partly arise from HeathCliff. He was taken under the wing of Mr Earnshaw and brought into the Earnshaw family. Heathcliff was always thought of as a nonnative presence in society and among the Earnshaw household. The only individuals who were affectionate towards him were Mr Earnshaw and Catherine. After Mr Earnshaw’s passing, Hindley, his son became the vendor of the estate. Due to past tension and abhorrence between…

The novel was about the passionate and destructive love between two central characters. One character is named Heathcliff and is raised with the Earnshaw children, Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw. Catherine grows to love Heathcliff but Hindley grows to hate him because Heathcliff replaces Hindley in Mr.Earnshaw’s affection. “ Terror made me cruel. . .” (Shakespeare, William, and Eugene M. Waith.The tragedy of Macbeth. New Haven:…

readings of the text as the text was published under a male pseudonym: Ellis Bell, which made it perceived as a highly masculine text and for more than a century, women avoided this text under the threat of getting identified with the fate of Catherine Earnshaw and It was only after coming up of Freudian theory that this novel was seen as a female’s quest for self-consciousness. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth –Century Literary Imagination (1979) by Sandra Gilbert…