Edgar Linton

They are isolated from the social norms and therefore do not conform to them unless exposed such as Catherine or Heathcliff when he leaves for three years. The more luxurious lifestyle of Catherine is a product of her time and eventual life with Edgar on the Grange. At the Grange they associate animals with being domesticated cats and trees as embellishments of the town they are lush and common in the Grange as well. Whereas in the Heights they see animals as wild and free, the plants are a…

she still lived at Wuthering Heights, with Joseph and Heathcliff especially. She describes it with a euphoric sense of joy (93). When faced with the decision between Edgar or Heathcliff, she ridiculously wants both instead of making the decision. She consistently thinks that she can still have Heathcliff even if she already ahs Edgar; she’s jealous of Isabella to the point where vengefully she reveals her sister-in-law’s feelings towards Heathcliff (77). There’s a point where Cathy1 is quite ill…

Though Cathy II was born on the Grange, she repeatedly crosses to Wuthering Heights because as the daughter of Catherine I and Edgar Linton, she has the capacity to travel between worlds. Hareton has spent his whole life at the Heights, but he is the son of Frances and Hindley Earnshaw, who envied and tried to emulate the Grange. Hareton is a lamb, so he can be framed, but the frame…

ultimate separation on earth through Catherine’s marriage to Edgar, Heathcliff and Catherine always bear one another in their hearts, and the strength and passion of their love mirrors the unyielding solidity of Wuthering Heights. According to Nelly, their love truly transcends human understanding, as their ghosts supposedly haunt the countryside of the moors. Subsequent inhabitants of Wuthering Heights, Hareton Earnshaw and Catherine Linton, carry the same fierce love for one another. In the…

Throughout the novel Heathcliff struggles with his position and social status in the Earnshaw household after the death of Mr. Earnshaw. He wants to progress forward in his education and gain respect from the residents of Wuthering Heights but he gets nowhere with Hindley 's abuse and mistreatment and Catherine´s coercion. There are several limits that Heathcliff tries to overcome to rise above his status as a homeless orphan and later a slave with no education. Hindley´s abuse and degradation,…

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…

In William Shakespeare’s famous play “Macbeth,” Macbeth uses three main rhetorical strategies to help him make persuasive arguments. First, he understands his audience, which is especially clear when he convinces the murderers to kill Banquo. Macbeth also uses logos, or the appeal to logic, to help justify his decisions in his own head and to his wife Lady Macbeth. This can most clearly be seen when he attempts to justify why killing Banquo and Fleance is a good idea. Finally, Macbeth utilizes…

The differences between Hareton 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…

Throughout the duration of Wuthering Heights, the characters such as Heathcliff and Hindley embody traits similar to her brother that immensely impacted her life. Her brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, suffered from the effects from being an alcoholic and a drug addict. Patrick died at a young age of 31 from tuberculosis. Patrick is noted having an abusive and aggressive behavior towards others. Likewise, Hindley and Heathcliff often possess aggressive tendencies towards others in the novel.…

Jane was trapped and abused as a child, much like Isabella Linton who was trapped and abused by her husband Heathcliff. Isabella eventually escapes from her entrapment and runs away as Jane escapes her aunt’s house by going to school. Jane’s young life parallels Hindley’s life in Wuthering Heights (Morris 162)…