Catherine Linton

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…

through his time with Catherine. The moment Mr.Earnshaw brought Heathcliff home he was instantly Mr.Earnshaws’ favorite, making Hindley Earnshaw jealous. After Mr.Earnshaw died Hindley finally had full control over Heathcliff, making sure his life was a living hell. When Hindley came home for Mr.Earnshaw’s…

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 a tool of revenge towards the Lintons, he constantly and savagely attacking Linton, his own dying son, and even his tenant, Mr. Lockwood, cannot escape his…

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…

early 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…

Immediately, Heathcliff’s return ignites old passion in Catherine, who loves him more than she ever loved Edgar. Heathcliff marries Catherine’s sister-in-law, Isabella Linton, within a few months of his return. He does this not out of a desire to spite Catherine, but to use her as a tool for an ulterior motive. He aims for control of Thrushcross Grange, where Catherine, Edgar, and Isabella live, and marrying Isabella gives him the right to inherit the estate. From…

between the old Catherine and Edgar Linton is romantic love, but it is based out of selfish and manipulative motives.…

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…

of the sense of freedom associated with them. Brontë’s mother died of cancer soon after her sister was born, leaving Emily Brontë growing up with only her father as a parent. This sudden death of a parent is reflected in the novel as the death of Catherine Earnshaw left her daughter,…

the repetitions of Catherine Earnshaw, Linton, and Heathcliff. Catherine I occupies the first two names, and her daughter occupies all three. The novel begins and ends with a Catherine Earnshaw. These names create a pattern, but it’s asymetrical, rather than circular. The similarities and differences are central to the repeats and alterations of the novel’s multigenerational structure. Catherine I’s story revolves around a choice between two men. She chooses to marry Edgar Linton- the wealthy,…