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    epic, Wuthering Heights, Cathy Earnshaw limits her ability to love Heathcliff because of her high concerns regarding status. Although in the beginning Cathy and her daughter have a similar condescending behavior towards their companions, in the end Catherine detaches herself from the importance of class. Utilizing these two characters. Bronte not only distinguishes that happiness is not epitomized by one’s measure of social worth, but that, in fact the happiest beings are those who break from…

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    In Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, people are able to sympathize with others when they have knowledge about the terms of their situation, and Bronte demonstrates this by including Heathcliff, an evil man by nature that receives sympathy from the reader because as humans, the reader justifies any of Heathcliff’s negative actions, to be a result of his situation, so rather than be angry, the reader continues to feel sympathy for them. Heathcliff is portrayed as a cruel and evil man…

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    Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights has a dark love story wrapped within its plot. It shows what things are within us and how everything in our life affects us for better or for worse. It consists of elements like ghosts, love, deception, and death. The novel shows how characters change throughout the course out the story. The character Heathcliff starts out in the beginning of the story as a reserved boy who has no money, name, or family. Mr. Earnshaw brought him to live at Wuthering Heights and…

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    can have in someone's life. Heathcliff’s character motivation to get revenge on Edgar and Catherine Linton for wronging him is apparent throughout the novel. Catherine was clearly in love with Heathcliff, but confided in Nelly that she wanted to marry Edgar due to his higher social status. Obviously, this angered Heathcliff and he spent his entire life getting revenge on them for this. He says to Catherine as she is knocking on death's door “‘I have not one word of comfort for you. You…

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    The 1939 screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by William Wyler, tells the story of two troubled souls destined for a life of failed happily ever after. The story opens with Mr. Lockwood, the new garage tenant, appearing at Wuthering Heights to take Shelter from a storm. While there, he encounters the haunting spirit of Cathy, calling out to her love, Heathcliff. Unnerved, Mr. Lockwood tells his tale to Ellen, the housekeeper, who then…

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    to annoy one another in ways that seem completely unnecessary. Heathcliff’s plan to make everyone miserable was working to an extent until his lover catherine died. After her death, Heathcliff became vulnerable and he felt as if his life no longer had any purpose. Yet somehow he still found the will to keep hurting others including his own son Linton and his deceased lover’s daughter Cathy. But soon after that, he still wasn’t feeling satisfied by what he had…

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    The black dog is a malicious spirit and an omen of death. Heathcliff is the black dog that haunts the moors of Emily Brontë’s novel, Wuthering Heights, and she uses dogs as both hallmarks for Heathcliff’s savage behavior and heralds of his misdeeds. The canine comparisons also bleed into descriptions of Hareton, whom Heathcliff raised in his image. Additionally, the actions of the dogs, as well as Heathcliff’s actions towards them, give insight into his beastly character and foreshadow his…

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    was inflicted by Heathcliff, but the way each of them dealt with him was strikingly different. Isabella 's peak of tragedy was when she married Heathcliff, became an abused wife, and began to realize she made a mistake marrying Heathcliff. After Catherine Earnshaw died, Heathcliff cried and this brought great happiness to Isabella. (footnote what Isabella said before nelly 's quote). When Isabella told Nelly how delighted she was to see Heathcliff suffer, Nelly said “one might suppose you had…

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    families are turned. The Earnshaws and Lintons are no different to this stereotype of aging lineage and fine clothing and food; however, this contrasts starkly with a young Heathcliff who has neither money nor good name to assist him. A unique relationship crops up between the gipsy boy savage turned lady that resonates and shifts throughout the passage. Emily Brontë’s, Wuthering Heights, depicts the struggles of a developing relationship between young Catherine Earnshaw and wild-eyed Heathcliff…

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    by society. However, Love is not so easily understood. The couples of Wuthering Heights each show a different aspect of love that helps define what it is. Catherine and Edgar’ relationship is one of traditional courtship, status, and security. Heathcliff and Isabella’s relationship is a tale of misshapen love and a revenge plot on sour. Catherine and Heathcliffs’ relationship can be seen as bitter and cold with a sense of lost potential. Each of these couples shows that love is one of the most…

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