Hareton Earnshaw

During the eighteenth century social class controlled the way people went through lives, such as affecting whom people married. Throughout the books Persuasion and Wuthering Heights the characters express how social class affects their lives and the outcome of their lives. During these two books social class and marriage are extremely important to the story line, both books do not let the thought of social class overcome love, although the way they both get to that point is different. During…

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 recognizable. They are similar in the ways they were raised, the way they treat others, and the ways they react to things that anger them. Heathcliff and Hareton were both raised in very similar manners. For example they were both raised in the same house.…

greeted by Heathcliff, who he judgmentally describes as a wannabe gentlemen. Heathcliff is entertained after Lockwood encounters his savage dogs. Lockwood later returns to Wuthering Heights during a blizzard and eats an awkward dinner with Heathcliff, Hareton, and young Catherine. Lockwood is forced to stay after being attacked by Joseph’s dogs and producing a nosebleed. Ziliah, the housekeeper, lets Lockwood stay in Catherine’s old room, in which he has a…

For instance, near the end of the book, where Heathcliff is starting to decline, he claims that he no longer cares for the two remaining representatives of the Lintons and the Earnshaws. While talking to his long companion Ellen Dean, Heathcliff says, “I get levers and mattocks working like Hercules, and when everything is ready, and in my power, I find the will to lift a slate off either roof has vanished! My old enemies have not…

romance. Brontë presents two different types of love through the lives of her main characters. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s stubborn, romantic passion portrays the dark side of love. The characters’ intense passions and like-personalities cause much turmoil and destruction in their own lives as well as in all those around them. The next generation of lovers, Catherine Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw, evolve with time and are able to find success in a love that matures. Brontë offers…

and Hindley Earnshaw. She constantly feels trapped in her marriage and the hostile environment at Wuthering Heights, but she finds respite by delving into books: “I dared hardly lift my eyes from the page before me, that melancholy scene so instantly usurped its place” (191). Through reading, Isabella is able to mentally escape the tension and hostility between Heathcliff and Hindley within the world of her books. Edgar Linton also finds ease in books, as seen when Catherine Earnshaw falls ill…

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…

Containing a multitude of ideas and themes, Wuthering Heights raises the question: what is Emily Brontë’s purpose that she wants the reader to grasp? It is plausible that the message pertains to women and the struggles encountered during that time. Brontë utilizes her characters in Wuthering Heights to show women’s struggles with being regarded as inferior to men in misogynistic, Victorian England. Brontë gives the reader a glimpse of the laws in effect that display the restrictions set on…

Wuthering Heights is a book written by Emily Bronte. The book talks about the dysfunctional years of the Earnshaws and the Lintons, who live in Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange respectively. Both are located in the moor, are extremely wealthy, and are, “…completely removed from the stir of society,” (Wuthering Heights, pg. 1). These houses could not be further from being alike however. The characteristics, as well as the characters and the level of class, show the differences very…

obstructions because Hindley Earnshaw was a drunk and had issues with gambling. Likewise, how Hindley deprived Heathcliff from an education, Heathcliff deprived Hareton, Hindley’s son, from an education by promising him that “the curate should have his –teeth dashed down his –throat, if he stepped over the threshold” (101). By preventing Hareton from gaining an education, Heathcliff is able to lessen Hareton’s rank and quality of life. Heathcliff’s actions against Hareton parallel the actions…