Catherine O'Leary

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…

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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…

Queen Elizabeth I Imagine if as a child, your birth was the most disappointing thing of your father’s life, your mother got executed and you had to live with your stepmother and her husband. This all happened to Queen Elizabeth I in her life and a lot more. She grew up in a very difficult family and she ended up living with her stepmother after her father and mother died. Her father wanted a son instead of a daughter so she was a huge dissapointment. Queen Elizabeth I shows her importance in her…

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…

novel of love, deceit, and revenge. Catherine Earnshaw loves Heathcliff, but marries Edgar Linton instead. The story’s narrator Ellen Dean, a housemaid, describes Catherine as dramatic and manipulative. She believes Catherine uses her emotions as a ploy to get her way. Catherine's husband Edgar would disagree. In his eyes Catherine uses her intellect and emotions to prove a point, but these emotions at times do alarm him. Both Ellen and Edgar believe Catherine is manipulative, but each views her…

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…

Despite the fact that they both loved each other, somehow they still found ways 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…

don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!” (Bronte 59). This means that Heathcliff desires to exact revenge on Hindley for abusing him. These vengeful feelings intercedes with his adulation for Catherine Earnshaw. Revenge eventually utterly consumes Heathcliff’s life. At the end of the novel, Heathcliff’s vindictiveness has finally caught up to him, and he is enervated. “It is a poor conclusion, is it not… An absurd termination to my violent…