Characters in Wuthering Heights

person committing criminal acts. Commonly seen in literature, revenge has driven an abundance of stories such as Hamlet, The Count of Monte Cristo, and Wuthering Heights. In the case of Wuthering Heights, there are a myriad of major themes, but revenge seems to be preeminent in leading the characters to their fates. Bronte shows us through the character, Heathcliff, that the ending self-injury of revenge may be worse than the original cause. For instance, Heathcliff never finds happiness…

Injustice is represented and shown in many ways throughout many novels. But the particular novel, Wuthering Heights, represents a lot of injustice especially with the character Heathcliff. First he was treated badly, then he was getting revenge to gain what he wanted but then his life loses meaning once the person he loved wasn’t there for him. Heathcliff’s understanding of injustice is to be treated badly throughout his childhood by what the master of the house would call his “siblings.”…

Thundered Heathcliff with savage vehemence.” We as the readers know that Heathcliff was in love with Catherine and furthermore the language that is used by Heathcliff in this quotation shows emphatic love and passion between the characters, and the words that were used to describe Heathcliff’s showing his emotions i.e. ‘thundered’ and ‘savage’ demonstrate the extremities of love that is presented here and which can be referred back to the title.…

will benefit himself and those around him or her in the future. This scenario presents itself in several pieces of literature including Wuthering Heights, “Porphyria’s Lover,” and Frankenstein. Besides singular language being used to explain the thought processes of obsessed characters, some authors primarily focus on giving the actions only to the obsessed character. The text suggests that one character’s obsession complicates the agency of those around him.…

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) involves the themes of the supernatural, the melancholy of characters, violence, and mystery. These features allow us to locate the novel in a large tradition of Gothic narrative. Following Sigmund Freud’s essay The Uncanny, the unheimlich purports that “something should be frightening because it is unknown and unfamiliar. … Something must be added to the novel and the unfamiliar if it is to become uncanny” (Freud 124-125). The Gothic novel, then, is…

amount of suffering. This irreparable damage can lead to one of the most destructive motivations a human can seek: revenge. Emily Brontë presents this evil force in her novel, “Wuthering Heights” as a prominent theme that drives her characters to their unpromising future. Revenge is noted in the actions of several characters, but revenge is most significantly distinguished in Heathcliff, the protagonist. Through the vindictive actions presented, Brontë revealed that while some victims were too…

race, exhibiting the egotistical desires that are common within Byronic heroes. By coupling Frankenstein’s self-less desire to overcome death with his narcissistic ambition to be viewed as a god, Mary Shelly fortifies the reader’s empathy of the character by focusing their attention on the preceding statement of noble intentions rather than the psychopathic statement that precedes. She further reinforces the reader’s sympathy for Frankenstein as well as his characterization as a Byronic hero…

dreams, he gives himself to the dark side of the force, and transforms into Darth Vader to avenge her death. Displaying behaviors that allow him to be branded a Byronic hero, he even shares a similar fate with the character Heathcliff in Emily Bronte’s romantic novel Wuthering Heights. Taking on the role of a Byronic hero, Heathcliff follows the model set forth by Lord Byron himself with his own Byronic heroes: intelligent, manipulative, and emotionally complex. This type of anti-hero seems…

occurrence in novels for a leading character to be given a “foil” character. This character is one who is not necessarily a main character, but still important, and provides contrast to a/the main character in a way that heightens and highlights that character 's characteristics, in the way that we can say that day defines night and vice versa. In Emily Bronte 's Wuthering Heights, this contrast between characters clearly takes place between the book 's central character, Heathcliff, and his…

relationship contains equilibrium in the second generation with both Hareton and Cathy. Some scholars believe these conflicts, the intensity, and drama arises from Wuthering Heights. Though, I Agree with Goodlett and believe the intensity arises from the bond between Heathcliff and Catherine, which comes in conflict with the other characters as well. Heathcliff’s and Catherine’s bond is described as an addiction because when they see each other, all the emotions come rushing and can not let go…