Hareton Earnshaw

Do the people who raise us affect who we become? In Wuthering Heights nature overcomes nurture. In this paper you will read about nature vs. nurture and, how it ties in with the characters of Wuthering Heights. Do you think who we grow up around affects us as adults or does it have to do with our genetics? What I want the reader to take away from this paper would be, some background on nature vs. nurture, and how it relates to the main characters in Wuthering Heights. Many people believe that…

Love is an emotion felt by many. While it can lead to untold happiness, it can certainly be destructive. Wuthering Heights shows a relationship that is hurtful to both parties even though they love each other very dearly. In the novel, Catherine and Heathcliff learn to love each other greatly; however, Catherine’s pride soon clouds the path to happiness with him while Heathcliff’s thirst for revenge clouds his happiness. Catherine and Heathcliff, while both infatuated with each other, cannot set…

starts with Lockwood, one of two narrators, who arrives at Wuthering Height and stays due to the snow. Then, the second narrator of the story, Nelly Dean, tells Lockwood the story of the family. To begin with, she tells him of how 30 years earlier Mr. Earnshaw brought home a child, Heathcliff, saying he found him in the streets of London. He grew up with Mr. Earnshaw’s son, Hindley, and daughter, Catherine. He spent his time with Catherine with whom he grew close while Hindley felt jealous,…

Wuthering Heights novel for Emily Bronte is one of the most important novel in history of English literature; because Wuthering Heights came with different ideas that contrast with Victorian ideas, some of these Victorian ideas for Ruskin female figure that should be helpmate, homemaker and make love environment for her husband, moreover the poet Patmore describes Victorian woman as an angel in the house, also the Victorian home as a place of peace, in the other hand the man is the leader of the…

as well. It is a relationship consisting of two people who grew up with each other, as siblings which can be considered incest. The destructiveness of Catherine and Heathcliff’s 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…

Anger is a useful dramatic emotion used by writers for centuries . It is a psychological process in everybody's nature that should not be ignored . It is also a strong feeling of displeasure ,hostility , resulting from injury ,mistreatment and opposition and usually showing itself in a desire to fight back at the supposed causes of the feeling . Allen translates Aristotle's definition of anger as "…a desire ,commingled with pain , to see someone punished , and which is provoked by an apparent…

“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”(Bronte 153) When Catherine died Heathcliff cried out in vain and agony. Her love was the only thing that kept him from completely losing himself, but, when she passed, Heathcliff could not handle the pain and cursed her and himself to a lifetime of torment and misery. He called out at the wind, and pleaded for her to stay with him forever. Heathcliff was so lost, his only resort was to ask a higher power not to let her go. Because…