Catherine Earnshaw

the moors. This encounter leads him to seek answers and finds them in the inner story told by a maid for the Earnshaw family – Nelly Dean. Nelly ‘waits not further invitation to her story’ and begins to tell Lockwood whilst trying to be an objective eyewitness to the tale. However, it becomes clear to the reader that because of the combination of narrators, we are distanced from both Catherine and Heathcliff and therefore the retrospective account of Nelly’s cannot be entirely accurate. At first…

snow. Then, the second narrator of the story, Nelly Dean, tells Lockwood the story of the family. To begin with, she tells him of how 30 years earlier Mr. Earnshaw brought home a child, Heathcliff, saying he found him in the streets of London. He grew up with Mr. Earnshaw’s son, Hindley, and daughter, Catherine. He spent his time with Catherine with whom he grew close while Hindley felt jealous, thinking his father loved Heathcliff more than him. In effect, he became very hateful of Heathcliff…

if not infatuated by the wild and beautiful Catherine and they form a sort of unworldly passionate relationship on which Heathcliff stakes everything. Imagine then, his deep hurt at Catherine's growing affection for Edgar Linton and her apparent transformation to a demure society lady. She spurns his affection and blows very hot and cold about her feelings for him. Eventually degraded and abused by Hindley and after having heard Catherine express to her maid that "it would degrade her…

is Heathcliff. Lockwood is surprised when he is rude. He meets the household and is forced to stay the night because of a blizzard. He encounters a ghost whose existence is denied by Heathcliff despite him begging the ghost back and calling it “Catherine.” Lockwood leaves and asks Nelly Dean, his housekeeper, to explain what occurred at Wuthering…

This was Catherine 's role as she psychologically damaged Heathcliff all the way to her dying moments as she failed to stand up for whom she loved. However, her innate desire for revenge in regards to her older brother and society restricting roles, allowed her to…

Wuthering Heights is the name of the farmhouse where the story unfolds. Novel is replete with class fight. When this novel was composed, social standing and property hold went as one. In the opening of the story, the Earnshaws stand for the lower class living at Wuthering Heights. The Lintons, at Thrushcross Grange, represent the high class. The social characteristic and non-violent nature of the characters like Lintons is also voice of Victorian norms. But violence is…

Peter Dinklage once stated,“I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am”. As a society, we have formed and established the ideas of social classes which among individuals are placed into. These social classes established by man have always been what people have looked to, to see how certain individuals are brought up and raised in a society based on their rankings they are placed into. The following quote grants the idea that some people may have a…

Wuthering Heights was written in 1847 by Emily Bronte. This novel deals with love between Heathcliff and Catherine who faces the odds of betrayal, heartbreak, and unacceptable relationships. For example, Heathcliff and Catherine’s as well as Isabelle and Heathcliff’s relationship was not acceptable to either families. Wuthering Heights takes place in the early 1800s where families were allowed to marry one another to keep their property and their family heirlooms. Society levels were well known…

In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw develop an unbreakable bond growing up together. As children “it was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day” (Bronte 37); the moors represented an escape from the harsh, iron-fisted rule of Hindley, and isolated as they were in northern England Heathcliff and Catherine only had each other to rely on for company and amusement. Catherine states “Nelly, I am Heathcliff .. our separation…

In chapter 15, Heathcliff and Catherine see each other for the first time since the fight between him and Edgar. In this chapter there are two parts before Catherine falls ill again. Catherine’s point of view of Heathcliff, and Heathcliff’s point of view of Catherine, and respective blame for Catherine’s Death. “I wish I could hold you” [Catherine] continued, bitterly, “till we were both dead! I shouldn't care what you suffered. I care nothing for your sufferings, Why shouldn't you suffer when i…