Catherine Earnshaw

In Wuthering Heights, some of the characters speak exclusively in the local dialect (the case of Joseph), other use it only to a certain extent and in certain situations (Mr Earnshaw, Hindley, Nelly), while there are other characters whose speech develops from a West Yorkshire dialect to Standard English when their social status changes (the case of Heathcliff and Hareton). Emily Brontë “gives her characters distinctive ways of speaking, according to their station in life and according to…

protagonists Heathcliff and Catherine in the Wuthering Heights in order to highlight the developments within their relationship throughout the novel. Wuthering Heights is considered to be a classical romantic novel which is based on the basic "rules" of romanticism. The novel tells a story about the forbidden love between the two main characters, a gypsy called Heathcliff and…

usually described by other characters and often referred to as something like the devil or as evil and this is precisely reflects the way he behaves and acts. He is described by the intense and violent and destructive passion and love towards Catherine Earnshaw, and this causes him to scorn all members of the Linton family of Thrushcross Grange, and he is led to devastate them in different ways. The atrocious Heathcliff abuses Isabella, Edgar Linton's sister, by using her fascination with him as…

In The Tragedy of Macbeth and Wuthering Heights, Shakespeare and Bronte introduces relationships with a power struggle between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Catherine, and Heathcliff. Lady Macbeth is a treacherous and cunning woman. She tricks her husband into killing king Duncan by telling him that he is a coward and that a real man would follow his ambitions so that Macbeth could be king.Catherine Thomas explains “Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth borrows from earlier “ monstrous women” stereotypes but…

and nightmare. The ghost of Catherine which greets Lockwood is used to depict the supernatural element. Wuthering heights is a dreary and dark place with Heath being desolate. This is affirmed by abundant occurrence of death, which leaves only three characters to survive until the end of the narrative. Characters in the narrative act and react irrationally, for instance the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff seems to be…

Sadly, Heathcliff did exactly that. Everyone who had wronged him was on his “hit list” and he wasn't going to be satisfied until he had gotten revenge. One of his main “targets” was Hindley. The instant Mr. Earnshaw died, Hindley took over the house. With this power he essentially made Heathcliff a servant. Heathcliff detested him for this and vowed heinous revenge. Going so far as to say, ““I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how…

Heathcliff was in love with Catherine and furthermore the language that is used by Heathcliff in this quotation shows emphatic love and passion between the characters, and the words that were used to describe Heathcliff’s showing his emotions i.e. ‘thundered’ and ‘savage’ demonstrate the extremities of love that is presented here and which can be referred back to the title. Another way love is perceived here is insanely. When Catherine and Isabelle…

childhood friends or relations become strangers. We see this in chapter seven of Wuthering Heights when Catherine returns home from being with the Lintons. Chapter seven is told from the point of view of Miss. Nelly Dean, the caretaker for the Earnshaws. Miss. Dean, as Lockwood realizes, offers an inside scoop on the melodrama that is the Linton and Earnshaw’s life. She describes the moment in which Catherine returns home after spending five weeks in the Linton’s home, recovering from being…

without one. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights was deemed radical during its Victorian age: presenting racially ambiguous characters, asexual love stories, and progressive portrayals of female characters. Through Bronte’s descriptions of Isabelle, Catherine, and Cathy, as well as their detrimental interactions and harmful experiences within their patriarchal culture, she provides an indictment…

Isabella. People think Heathcliff and Isabella will be a love story like him and Catherine, but it is not. He uses her for his revenge towards her brother Edgar. Once Edgar finds out that she married Heathcliff he disowns her. “Marking the Territory: Heathcliff, Edgar, and Homosocial” states that Heathcliff has a bad reputation with women. He is physically, mentally, and emotionally abusive to women. He uses Catherine, Isabella, and Cathy to get back at his rivals (8). Isabella is an easy…