Catherine of Aragon

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…

with Heathcliff, Hareton, and young Catherine. Lockwood is forced to stay after being attacked by Joseph’s dogs and producing a nosebleed. Ziliah, the housekeeper, lets Lockwood stay in Catherine’s old room, in which he has a…

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…

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…

Baited and Lured Aristophanes said, “Hunger knows no friend but its feeder” (BrainyQuote). In “Saint Marie (1934): Marie Lazarre,” from the novel Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, begins with Marie Lazarre following the Nuns up the hill to the Sacred Heart Convent where she will become a protégé, not for the intentions of salvation, but to prevent Sister Leopolda from getting into heaven. In this story brimmed with layers of irony, Erdrich uses fishing and baiting imagery to demonstrate the…

spells of sadness, anger, and irritability which he can’t break from because it is part of his daily life. When Heathcliff allowed Catherine into his life, she was unable to break him from these thoughts, but was never capable to change him and he sulked back into the dismal life he was living. When Catherine decides to marry Edgar Linton, Nelly tries to persuade Catherine with the possible negative outcome of her marrying, telling her that “As soon as you become Mrs. Linton, [Heathcliff] loses…

seed for Heathcliff’s deferred revenge. Heathcliff’s long process of revenge starts as soon as he gets back from receiving an education. He initiates these events against Catherine and Edgar by manipulating Isabella 's emotions to suade her to marry him. He wants Edgar to suffer because of his marriage to Catherine, and for Catherine to be jealous. Catherine’s death proves that his disturbed sense of fulfillment is empty. Edgar and Isabella end up passing as well, leading to the forced and…

In our reality, storms are violent, turbulent and windy collections of forceful power. In writing, they are a strong and substantial metaphor for a feeling or situation with all the destructing and dominant force of a storm. In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” there are many different aspects of stormy weather packed into the novel, each one specifically expressing something explicit to its subject. These stormy metaphors and similes show that Dostoevsky shows the somber chaotic…