Catherine Earnshaw

This particular proclivity for self-decimation is notoriously canonical for a Byronic hero. Heathcliff acts erratically and impulsively, tormenting himself with his longing for Catherine. He lingers at Thrushcross Grange, much to the disdain of Edgar Linton, inflicting pain on himself as he sees Catherine dying. Upon Catherine’s death, Heathcliff’s temper becomes uncontrollable as he loses his mind and smashes his head against a tree until it begins profusely bleeding, and then begs Catherine’s…

certainly be destructive. Wuthering Heights shows a relationship that is hurtful to both parties even though they love each other very dearly. In the novel, Catherine and Heathcliff learn to love each other greatly; however, Catherine’s pride soon clouds the path to happiness with him while Heathcliff’s thirst for revenge clouds his happiness. Catherine and Heathcliff, while both infatuated with each other, cannot set aside their pride to be happy with each other. Pride destroys relationships.…

romanticism or Gothic romanticism ; because of characteristics of Heathcliff and Catherine, Kiely sees the conversion in novel turn into something like poetry, he called it antithesis or dynamic antagonism , moreover the challenge between Edgar and Heathcliff look romantic, also Heathcliff and Catherine were driven by strong emotions like (envy , ambition, pride, passion, lust, curiosity and intellectual), Catherine in her marriage she desires to overpass and escape from her body and her…

In the novel, Heathcliff is a Byronic hero who has a past that can be empathized with but executes a revenge plan that makes him unlikable. Heathcliff overhears Nelly and Catherine’s conversation and “had listened till he hear Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no further” only to return to Wuthering Heights years later with a revenge plan that he…

It then furthers the exploration of the emotions of Heathcliff, an orphan taken in by the Earnshaw family, who falls in love with a Catherine Earnshaw, and plans his revenge against her for her perceived rejection of his yearn for her love in return. This intrinsic and extrinsic conflict ultimately proves to be the driving force of action throughout the novel. Published…

essay, “Changing the Names: The Two Catherines,” Lyn Pykett argues that while Catherine is destroyed by her inability to handle the conflicting images of herself and femininity imposed upon her, her daughter, Cathy, negotiates these contradictions and ultimately uses them to carve herself out a powerful, successful role, even within the deeply patriarchic confines of nineteenth-century England. Pykett argues that Wuthering Heights charts the process of Catherine learning femininity as defined by…

After Mr. Earnshaw passes away, Hindley gains custody of Wuthering Heights. His first act as master of the estate is to degrade Heathcliff by “[driving] him from their company, [depriving] him of the instructions of the curate, and [insisting] he labour like a servant”…

The novel was published in 1847 with the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. This is the only novel of Brontë which narrates a passionate love story between Catherine and Heathcliff and it is also beyond this theme, there are revenge, dreams, nightmares, ghosts and violence. The criticisms were made negatively in this age since the readers thought that the novel was “revolting,” “iredeemably montuous,” “too odiously…

eventually develop an immense strain of jealousy and revenge towards Edgar and his lineage that roots itself in these early occurrences, and from the monogamy of Edgar and Catherine. “He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no farther,” explaining how Catherine would refuse to marry someone such as Heathcliff and rather Edgar, since Edgar’s high social and financial status would not degrade her status as well, and upon hearing…

Do the people who raise us affect who we become? In Wuthering Heights nature overcomes nurture. In this paper you will read about nature vs. nurture and, how it ties in with the characters of Wuthering Heights. Do you think who we grow up around affects us as adults or does it have to do with our genetics? What I want the reader to take away from this paper would be, some background on nature vs. nurture, and how it relates to the main characters in Wuthering Heights. Many people believe that…