Hareton Earnshaw

young Heathcliff once Mr. Earnshaw died. This is his attempt to get revenge for the how Heathcliff used to blackmail and threaten him. Though he was the first to demonstrate this type of manipulation, Heathcliff would have to be the main user of manipulation for the purpose of injuring others. After the rejection by Catherine his sole purpose in life becomes revenge, and he spares no expense to obtain it. One way he goes about getting his revenge is gambling with Hindley Earnshaw once he returns…

well kept. The Linton family is refined by popular opinion and well mannered. The Earnshaw family starts out as genuinely decent people, but as time moves on they become more aggressive and less sensible. The family relationship begins to degrade when Mr. Earnshaw brings home an abandoned child, named Heathcliff, instead of the toys he promised to purchase for Catherine and Hindley. After Mrs. Earnshaw dies, Mr. Earnshaw begins to grow fonder of Heathcliff than Hindley. Heathcliff develops a…

Social status during the early nineteenth century was a key component that contributed towards an intimate relationship and eventually marriage. In Emily Bronte’s mid-19th century classic epic, Wuthering Heights, Cathy Earnshaw limits her ability to love Heathcliff because of her high concerns regarding status. Although in the beginning Cathy and her daughter have a similar condescending behavior towards their companions, in the end Catherine detaches herself from the importance of class.…

Two Houses Emily Bronte 's Wuthering Heights takes place at Thrushcross Grange, Wuthering Heights, and the road connecting the two. Both houses have their own sets of flaws and virtues that become muddled in-between. The two houses are polar opposites and the characters are by products of the houses. The traits of the Heights and of the Grange are found clearly in the characters. The houses traits foreshadow the characteristics of the characters. The characters take on the qualities of the…

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 Heathcliff, a young orphaned boy whose parentage is unknown and is told through Nelly Dean, whose mother was a servant at Wuthering Heights, where Heathcliff, Catherine, and her…

In Emily Brontë’s Gothic world of romance and isolation, the lives of her characters, Catherine and Heathcliff, revolve around one focal point: Wuthering Heights. Every experience in this book leads back to the Earnshaw estate. In the beginning of the novel, Brontë commits a paragraph to the definition of the word “wuthering”, foreshadowing the future significance of the symbolism of this building. After Nelly Dean introduces the backstory of Heathcliff and Catherine, distinct parallels between…

many years. Mr. Earnshaw was a Yorkshire farmer and the owner of Wuthering Heights. He comes home to his wife, son Hindley, and daughter Catherine, from a business trip. With him, he brings a little orphaned, gypsy boy named Heathcliff. Mr. Earnshaw begins to treat Heathcliff better than his own son, Hindley. Instead of Catherine going against Heathcliff, as her brother naturally does, she falls in love with him. This causes many problems when her father, Mr. Earnshaw, passes away and…

Heights, a servant with her mother. Owner Mr.Earnshaw, brings home an orphaned boy on his travels from Liverpool. Earnshaw children, Hindley and Catherine, despise the dark-skinned gypsy boy, Heathcliff. After the death of Mrs.Earnshaw, Mr.Earnshaw begins to dote on Heathcliff more than his own son. Earnshaw sends Hindley to college as punishment his cruelty towards Heathcliff. Earnshaw dies three years later, leaving Hindley and his wife Frances to inherit Wuthering Heights. Frances dies giving…

Wuthering Heights is a story about acceptance and love, but also one of judgment and revenge. It is a tale of a family, the Earnshaws, who took in a young gypsy boy whom they named Heathcliff, who was on his own. When Mr. Earnshaw brought this boy home his children, Hindley and Catherine, weren’t all too happy to have him around, Hindley more so because Heathcliff came to be Mr. Earnshaw’s favorite son. Heathcliff was one of them even though not by blood, and was taught to read and write like…

the theme above stated one cruel action lead to a continues until it is stopped by an act of love and this was the case in this novel. An example is seen when Catherine no longer talks back but tries to maintain within her limits for the love of Hareton this is showed when it says "...I don 't believe she has ever breather a syllable, in the latter 's hearing, against her…