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    actions towards him. This makes him a brutal and a melancholy character as a result of his destructive revenge. One can see this when Hindley seeks revenge on Heathcliff making him the character he is, and when Heathcliff seeks revenge on Hindley, Catherine, and Cathy. Hindley is the main reason why Heathcliff is so miserable throughout his life. Hindley gets his revenge on…

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    society, falls in love with their daughter, Catherine. Therefore, Catherine’s eventual decision to marry Edgar Linton because of his social status, instead of her childhood lover Heathcliff, spurs him to seek reprisal. Throughout this novel, Bronte critiques the detrimental effects of a vengeful heart, the destructive nature of an unwavering love, and the significance of social class. Heathcliff’s fervent thirst for revenge towards the Earnshaw and Linton families determines several of his…

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    Heathcliff Superstition

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    Slightly differently from Catherine because Catherine demonstrated a deviation from feminine norm from the start, Isabella was forced to her feminist actions by the world around her as she experienced the ways her society could be harmful to her. It is when she is Isabella Heathcliff rather than Isabella Linton that her fight begins. Having followed the path of marriage, Isabella soon learns that she was naïve in her love for Heathcliff and finds herself in a marriage rife with violence and…

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    character : CATHERINE EARNSHAW Catherine, as we know,is a very important character in wuthering heights. She is who creates the conflict throughout the book, amd also between Edgar and Headcliff. Even though,we never meet her because she died many years before the story that is narrated begins,we can distinguish two sides to Catherine,these ‘’two Catherines’’ are very different: One of them is Heathcliff’s Catherine, a wild, wilful and passionate person;the other is Edgar’s Catherine,despites he…

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    of comfort and suffering, but also act as a method of reconciliation for a broken relationship. For some characters in Wuthering Heights, books serve as a refuge from the hardships of reality and real emotions. After marrying Heathcliff, Isabella Linton discovers her husband’s true vengeful self and the growing hatred between him and Hindley Earnshaw. She constantly feels trapped in her marriage and the hostile environment at Wuthering Heights, but she finds respite by delving into books: “I…

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    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…

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    foreshadow the characteristics of the characters. The characters take on the qualities of the houses through direct embodiment, being cursed or blessed by thee Heights, mixing them together, or by inheriting the flaws or virtues. Heathcliff and Edgar Linton are direct representations of the Houses. Heathcliff is Wuthering Heights. All who reside at Wuthering Heights receive emotional and physical trauma unknowingly to the outside world. This is true for Heathcliff as well, “He held a silent…

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    up with Earnshaw’s children, and including Catherine’s and Hindley’s. Also, Catherine fell in love with Heathcliff, but Hindley was jealous of Heathcliff’s close relationship with his adopted parent (Mr. Earnshaw). Eventually, Heathcliff’s adopted father, Mr. Earnshaw became ill and then he later passed away. But, Hindley hates Heathcliff with a passion, which his determination was to have a vendetta against him. Catherine, on the other hands, loves Heathcliff…

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    a series of destructive; dysfunctional relationships with one another. The worst of these is the destructive nature of the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine. Catherine knows that Heathcliff is the one she really wants to be with. Catherine says “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now”. The relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff is self-destructive to an extreme. Lady Macbeth has control of Macbeth relationship wise. She is truly the women behind…

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    If you truly love someone and you that person love you, then why you feel it would be a disgrace to not tell the other person. Conflict will arise between two parties when it comes to love. Heathcliff fell over heels when it came to Catherine, he, became a joyful man who was able to teach himself from rags to riches. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am…

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