Catherine Earnshaw

Passion, love, and desire encourage transgression, which eventually leads to Gretchen’s death sentence in Goethe’s Faust and Catherine Sr.’s and Isabella’s death from fever in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. The women have passions for passion and desires to be desired that they discover through their involvement in forbidden romantic relationships with the male protagonists. Goethe’s Gretchen acts well-behaved until she becomes tempted by the beauty of “such jewels! [A] rich array” (I.2791), and…

The Ones We Love? Family; a blessing, or a curse? In the book Night, Elie Wiesel offers many significant themes, but the question, “is family a blessing or a curse,” is one of the most prevalent and begging themes in the novel. During the novel, Wiesel often questions if he should try and keep his father around, or if life would just be better without him in the picture. “‘Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my…

The first flashback is of Hasmukh Mehta in which he tells the audience about his upbringing and how he has been influnced by it. It gives an insight as to why he is so dominating in nature and wants everyone to obey him. The second flashback is of Kiran, who tells the Mehta family about her relationship with Hasmukh and her drunkard husband. Kiran tells Sonal about the different dimension of their relationship and how Hasmukh has been inconsiderate to the feelings of the people around him. She…

You're alone in an unfamiliar, dirty The-Street-Ann-Petryand bitter city, just looking for a place to spend the night. The Street by Ann Petry is a novel about a woman, Lutie Johnson, who finds herself in this situation. The relationship between Lutie Johnson and the city-based setting is established by the use of (giving a non-living thing qualities of a living thing/existence of a perfect living representation of something), (putting pictures into your mind) and description, in The Street by…

lower social class then most of the people around him. When he and Catherine are caught outside Thrushcross Grange, he is told he looks and out-and-outer (61) and shortly sent on his way. Catherine stayed and was taught to be more sophisticated and less like Heathcliff. Lockwood is also considered an outsider because he is from another home, and considered to be a somewhat of a foreigner to the people at Wuthering Heights. Catherine is originally considered an outsider, due to…

emotion and desire. Emily Bronte turns this desire into a dark aspect of human nature. This uncontrollable desire is shown between the main characters, Heathcliff and Catherine. In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff befriends his step sister, Catherine, and they inevitably fall for each other. Heathcliff struggles to control his desire for Catherine making him vulnerable to self-destruction. Heathcliff’s passion consumes him and lives a miserable life. In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte shows that…

For instance, near the end of the book, where Heathcliff is starting to decline, he claims that he no longer cares for the two remaining representatives of the Lintons and the Earnshaws. While talking to his long companion Ellen Dean, Heathcliff says, “I get levers and mattocks working like Hercules, and when everything is ready, and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished! My old enemies have not…

The reader’s first glimpse of how Heathcliff treats Catherine Linton is when he commands her to get the tea ready in a tone “uttered so savagely that I [Mr. Lockwood] started” (11). At this point in the story, the reader is not aware of Heathcliff’s diabolical nature, but it is made evident that he is a menacing character that will play a role in the theme of the story. When Heathcliff imprisons Catherine and Ellen in Wuthering Heights, Catherine’s bold behavior compels her to…

was brought by Mr. Earnshaw, it was apparent that Earnshaw preferred Heathcliff over his own son. Hindley realized that and began to feel hatred and jealousy towards Heathcliff. Hindley began to bully and even abuse Heathcliff just because his father preferred Heathcliff. Over time, Heathcliff grew more and more agitated and began plotting his revenge on Hindley. When Mr. Earnshaw died, Hindley began to abuse Heathcliff even more now that his father was not there…

with Heathcliff, Hareton, and young Catherine. Lockwood is forced to stay after being attacked by Joseph’s dogs and producing a nosebleed. Ziliah, the housekeeper, lets Lockwood stay in Catherine’s old room, in which he has a…