Catherine Parr

Love: Nothing More Than Deceitful Manipulation? Claire: Stay here if you hate me so much. Catherine: And do what? Claire: You’re the genius, figure it out. (CLAIRE is upset, near tears. [...] She exits). (Auburn, 78) In the play Proof, by David Auburn, two estranged sisters, Catherine and Claire, struggle to fundamentally understand each other upon reuniting after their father’s death. Furthermore, Catherine characterizes Claire as having a conniving and haughty persona; yet, towards the end…

The Ones We Love? Family; a blessing, or a curse? In the book Night, Elie Wiesel offers many significant themes, but the question, “is family a blessing or a curse,” is one of the most prevalent and begging themes in the novel. During the novel, Wiesel often questions if he should try and keep his father around, or if life would just be better without him in the picture. “‘Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my…

The first flashback is of Hasmukh Mehta in which he tells the audience about his upbringing and how he has been influnced by it. It gives an insight as to why he is so dominating in nature and wants everyone to obey him. The second flashback is of Kiran, who tells the Mehta family about her relationship with Hasmukh and her drunkard husband. Kiran tells Sonal about the different dimension of their relationship and how Hasmukh has been inconsiderate to the feelings of the people around him. She…

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…

annihilative consequences of vengeance and how it not only destroys one physically but how it also destroys one’s soul. Heathcliff is used to develop the theme through his characterization. A significant characterization of Heathcliff is when Catherine declares that “Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation: an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone. I’d as soon put that little canary into the park on a winter’s day, as recommend you to bestow your heart…

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…

You're alone in an unfamiliar, dirty The-Street-Ann-Petryand bitter city, just looking for a place to spend the night. The Street by Ann Petry is a novel about a woman, Lutie Johnson, who finds herself in this situation. The relationship between Lutie Johnson and the city-based setting is established by the use of (giving a non-living thing qualities of a living thing/existence of a perfect living representation of something), (putting pictures into your mind) and description, in The Street by…

For a visual text to be effective characters must be hurt or destroyed. Would you ever get married to someone who you don’t love to get back at someone you do love? Could you watch the love of you life go through dangerous inner torture? Should you be able to get through life where everything is calm and there is no drama, pain or darkness? These are some of the questions in which the director, Coky Giedroyc, wanted the audience to ask themselves when they were watching the film adaption of…

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…

During the eighteenth century social class controlled the way people went through lives, such as affecting whom people married. Throughout the books Persuasion and Wuthering Heights the characters express how social class affects their lives and the outcome of their lives. During these two books social class and marriage are extremely important to the story line, both books do not let the thought of social class overcome love, although the way they both get to that point is different. During…