Characters in Wuthering Heights

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…

A castle, a curious heroine, and a tragic love story are just three of the things that help create a gothic novel. When reading the novel, Wuthering Heights, it is extremely evident that the novel carries gothic themes and those themes are the true pillars of the novel itself. When people first hear the word “gothicism” many quickly jump to the conclusion that the gothicism genre is just something dark, or just something evil, and lastly just something supernatural, however, in all actuality…

In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, nearly all the main character relished in the mistreatment of one another through various cruel tasks and plots. With each and every character using such means as a defense mechanism to cope with their own faults and mistreatments. In particular, Heathcliff, whom was far from perfect at the start but gradually worsened through mistreatment from Hindley and even Cathrine in his youth. Within years, his use of cruel methods converted from a way to…

Villainy in Wuthering Heights In Emily Bronte’s gothic romance Wuthering Heights, there is no true hero or villain as several if not all character’s display a duality in nature, having both heroic and villainous attributes. Nonetheless, villainy is a prevalent characteristic in Heathcliff, his villainous nature ultimately leading to his downfall. Bronte’s novel centers on the tempestuous characters of Catherine Earnshaw, a young headstrong girl in love with her childhood friend…

One of the themes of Wuthering Heights is cruelty and it’s circular nature. Throughout the novel, cruelty is inflicted by many characters, and experienced by many more. Oftentimes, the dynamic shifts, and a character who once acted cruelly in the first half of the novel finds themselves being subjected to that very same cruelty at their lowest moments. At times, it seems that even the moors where the novel takes place exude a hostile and unwelcoming attitude. At the center of all the cruelty…

This essay will discuss Catherine and Heathcliff 's development as characters through the two key settings of the Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. Focusing on their characteristics of pride, anger, passion and resentment which are developed through the key factors of love and the Heights chaotic and dangerous nature. This will be contrasted to the civilised representation of culture in which the Grange exemplifies. Catherine relationship with the Grange began when she was mauled by a…

Earnshaw and Linton Heathcliff’s childhoods are that Hareton grew up as a lonely orphan subjected to Heathcliff’s severe abuse from an early age, whereas Linton’s loving mother raised him through his childhood in a nice, pampered lifestyle. In Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, Hareton is more pitiable than Linton since he was raised as a pawn of Heathcliff’s revenge and his naivety of this maltreatment ruined his life. Hareton’s ignorance of Heathcliff’s deliberate animosity is pitiful because…

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…

In the love and revenge tale of “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte, the character Heathcliff suffers injustice; therefore he also causes injustice to others around him. His experience with injustice makes him vengeful and sought out to hurt others. He was an orphan, taken in by Mr. Heathcliff, and upon his arrival only half of the household were welcoming of him. Hindley and Mrs.Earnshaw did not like Heathcliff at all, so they made his life miserable since they could not get rid of him.…

In The Tragedy of Macbeth and Wuthering Heights, Shakespeare and Bronte introduces relationships with a power struggle between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Catherine, and Heathcliff. Lady Macbeth is a treacherous and cunning woman. She tricks her husband into killing king Duncan by telling him that he is a coward and that a real man would follow his ambitions so that Macbeth could be king.Catherine Thomas explains “Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth borrows from earlier “ monstrous women” stereotypes but…