Catherine Linton

Wuthering Heights explores a variety of kinds of love, the main focus being Heathcliff and Catherine 's heated passion for each other, which is terribly destructive because of their intense connection. Catherine and Heathcliff’s relationship can be viewed to consist of conventional love rather than affected love in a contemporary society because conventional love is described as genuine, caring and forgiving, which are attributes displayed by both characters. However, the novel is set in the…

Heathcliff and Catherine have and the things they have to go through but also in the way Isabella loves Heathcliff and he makes her suffer for the actions of her brother. In addition, it is a cruel passion because even though both Catherine and Heathcliff love each other Catherine is married and they still see each other which eventually leads her to her death because she is torn between two lovers. Finally, the cruel obsession can be seen when Catherine dies he asks for Catherine to haunt him…

quotation enables one to realize that he or she should not be criticizing others around them. For example, in the novel, readers learn that Heathcliff dedicated many years of his life attempting to live happily ever after with the love of his life, Catherine—even after her death. Not to mention that in the beginning of the novel, Heathcliff is portrayed as a homeless orphan, in the streets of Liverpool, England.…

Catherine conducts a not so secret conversation which allows Heathcliff to hear her confession of love for him, forcing him to leave the life he knows behind him. Porphyria’s lover partakes in transforming Porphyria fully as a person and takes her ability…

“Loving you was the most exquisite form of self-destruction” (David Jones). Destructive love is caused by many aspects of a relationship. Those aspects are women get control in the relationship, jealousy leads to betrayal, love becomes an addiction, destructive power, and men try to regain control. The theme of self-destructive love within relationships in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Bronte's Wuthering Heights are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. Women who have sovereignty are…

To be destroyed is to be rendered useless or completely defeated and is a state that can be brought upon by oneself or others. In Coky Giedroyc’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte’s characters are hurt and destroyed in order for significant ideas to be conveyed, making it a more effective text as audiences are able to understand ideas that may not be in plain sight. Wuthering Heights is set during the Victorian Era and centres around Cathy and Heathcliff 's developing romance and the…

In 1847 Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights; a novel as eccentric as it is unsettling, its themes including the oppositional natures of horror and beauty, dreams and reality, hate and adoration, fused into one strange and dark novel. This essay is a comparative analysis of two film adaptations of Brontë’s novel; the thesis being the 1939 film adaptation, titled Wuthering Heights and directed by William Wyler, presents the story within the romance genre. By comparison the 2011 adaptation…

develop a longing for revenge and inevitably goes insane, this illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole by highlighting one of the overarching themes, revenge. When Heathcliff is first brought to Wuthering Heights, he is immediately drawn to Catherine, and the two become very close. Hindley however clearly loathes him, and moves off to college mainly because of his resentment towards Heathcliff. When Hindley returns…

symbolize a coffin. It is associated at the beginning with Lockwood and Catherine’s ghost and now is the setting of Heathcliff’s death. This very morbid place was also a symbol of Catherine to Heathcliff while he was still living. It was a very holy place to him and it is fitting that he may finally be at peace there. -Since Catherine Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff has changed, as become evident through his empathy here. He has a scornful attitude towards Hareton and his veneration as well as…

Despite the lack of a traditional hero in Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, the character Heathcliff presents many of the qualities of a hero; however, his thirst for revenge marks him as a tragic hero. One of the qualities that marks Heathcliff as a hero is his strength. When Heathcliff is first found, it is said that he was “starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb” (Brontë, 36). Despite being in such a sickly state, Heathcliff is able to withstand the household’s hate and Hindley…