Characters in Wuthering Heights

In Emily Bronte 's novel "Wuthering Heights", there are two houses: Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights, both located in Yorkshire. The two houses symbolize the people living in them. Thrushcross Grange is home to the pure, caring, and well-mannered, and Wuthering Heights is home to the malevolent, cunning people. That the two houses are so different contributes to the author’s meaning of the work because the two houses are opposing forces and are what causes the conflict and plot the story. Thrushcross Grange and those who live there (the Linton family) are the ideal, sophisticated members of the English elite. In the society of the novel, where money and status are equal to power and respect, the dwellers of Thrushcross Grange look…

Character Comparison: Younger Heathcliff vs. Older Heathcliff Wuthering Heights is a novel written by Emily Brontë, published in the year 1847. Wuthering Heights – a farmhouse – is the location of where the novel is set, along with the property of the Lintons, Thrushcross Grange. The main themes in the novel are jealousy (caused by love) and vengeance. There is an ongoing feud between two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons over the inheritance of property. In Wuthering Heights, one of the…

How does Heathcliff 's character develop from chapters one through to eight? The novel teases the reader into thinking that Heathcliff is more than what he seems; that his cruelty is merely an expression of his frustrated love for Cathrine Earnshaw or that his sinister behaviours serve to conceal the heart of a romantic hero. Throughout these chapters, we get the impression that as Heathcliff gets older, he loses his innocence and that the love for Cathrine isn 't as pure and is presented in a…

The novel Wuthering Heights provides some interesting themes to ponder on. The complexity and strangeness of the story leaves a lot of it to be deciphered by the reader, instead of just placed on the pages in front of them. It is also interesting to see also how the characters interact and wind up in many cases rather similar to another. It seems that everyone in the book has a duplicate in some form or another. In the instance of Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw, their similarities are very…

Morally ambiguous characters/anti-heroes are the most interesting characters to read about. These characters can be seen as both favorable and hateful depending on the point in the story. This constant back and forth of good to bad is what keeps people's interests. Whether this can be attributed to just good writing or all characters of this archetype being interesting, I do not know. However, one element that is apparent are the teeming amounts of characters resembling moral ambiguity included…

Two Houses Emily Bronte 's Wuthering Heights takes place at Thrushcross Grange, Wuthering Heights, and the road connecting the two. Both houses have their own sets of flaws and virtues that become muddled in-between. The two houses are polar opposites and the characters are by products of the houses. The traits of the Heights and of the Grange are found clearly in the characters. The houses traits foreshadow the characteristics of the characters. The characters take on the qualities of the…

Description of the main character : CATHERINE EARNSHAW Catherine, as we know,is a very important character in wuthering heights. She is who creates the conflict throughout the book, amd also between Edgar and Headcliff. Even though,we never meet her because she died many years before the story that is narrated begins,we can distinguish two sides to Catherine,these ‘’two Catherines’’ are very different: One of them is Heathcliff’s Catherine, a wild, wilful and passionate person;the other is…

Professor and Wuthering Heights It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow Weather can be used for foreshadowing and to create emotional atmosphere. In the story, Bronte uses bad weather to underscore the troubling times the characters experience. Even the eponymous Wuthering Heights has significance, it is explained in the book that “ ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather” (6). The house is named after…

novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte can be characterized as Gothic Fiction with a hint of Romanticism, and the Victorian Ideal. The novel centers around a “gypsy” like kid named Heathcliff, who is adopted and raised in Wuthering Heights, where he endures pain through abuse, the ideas of revenge and casting it on others, and finds love but then loses it and makes another critical character suffer. How to Read Literature like a Professor by Thomas C. Foster explains how understand everything…

mention of the bible, Heathcliff likely called out to god. And, Because of this, Catherine is condemned to forever haunt the winding corridors of Wuthering Heights. As one of many examples, the ghost of Catherine falls in line with the themes of Gothicism. Throughout the novel, the concept of Gothicism is evident from Heathcliff’s presence, marriage to Isabella, and his home, Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is a man of great pride and has high level of confidence, but always holds a cold,…