Heathcliff

Linton families over two generations. Heathcliff, a formerly abused orphan from Liverpool, influences many of the key events described in Wuthering Heights. His undying love for Catherine Earnshaw drives the plot of the novel accompanied with his prior history of abuse lead Heathcliff to commit acts, such as abusing his own relatives and forcing a marriage between his niece and son. In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff’s otherwise unreasonable actions are driven by his love for Catherine Earnshaw, his history of abuse, and desire for revenge upon Hindley and even Catherine. Heathcliff’s love for Catherine drives him into committing irrational…

enables one to realize that he or she should not be criticizing others around them. For example, in the novel, readers learn that Heathcliff dedicated many years of his life attempting to live happily ever after with the love of his life, Catherine—even after her death. Not to mention that in the beginning of the novel, Heathcliff is portrayed as a homeless orphan, in the streets of Liverpool, England.…

Despite the lack of a traditional hero in Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, the character Heathcliff presents many of the qualities of a hero; however, his thirst for revenge marks him as a tragic hero. One of the qualities that marks Heathcliff as a hero is his strength. When Heathcliff is first found, it is said that he was “starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb” (Brontë, 36). Despite being in such a sickly state, Heathcliff is able to withstand the household’s hate and Hindley…

This is a struggle the character Heathcliff goes through daily. Heathcliff's inner elemental force is a strong storm which well reflects his true colours. Heathcliff is an obsessive character who has evident savage,wild and complex traits to his personality. Though his wild and savage storm it means that he will have clashes with other storms which will end up in destruction and pain. One of the major clashes between two elemental forces is between the characters of Hindley and Heathcliff. When…

in this passage, Wuthering Heights, a similar predicament is expressed with Catherine and Heathcliff. In the passage given from chapter seven of Wuthering heights, Catherine and Heathcliff have a strange ongoing relationship, both wanting to be together but also impeding themselves from forming a formal relationship. After months of being distant, mixed feelings were being confronted. “Is Heathcliff not here?” asked Cathy. This direct quote, portrays the interest arousing the characters.…

In the novel Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is affected culturally because of his rank. He was adopted into the Earnshaw family as an orphan, and his adoptive brother, hindley immediately takes a disliking to him because he was an orphan. Because Heathcliff is constantly treated as though he is inferior by Hindley he begins to develop a longing for revenge and inevitably goes insane, this illuminates the meaning of the work as a whole by highlighting one of the overarching themes, revenge. When…

Catherine stays in Thurshcross Grange for around five weeks. Mrs. Linton taught her some manners, and how to be a proper young lady. When she returns back for Christmas, Heathcliff sees her, and greets her. At first, Cathy would try to avoid him, and she also told him that he was to dirty for her. But after a while she became more interested in him, to the point where she was being very caring . Catherine thinks that both Edgar and Hindley mistreated Heathcliff. After they had the dinner…

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,…

revenge is most significantly distinguished in Heathcliff, the protagonist. Through the vindictive actions presented, Brontë revealed that while some victims were too broken to retaliate most perpetrators and victims prioritized redeeming their pride and dignity instead of striving for their own well-being. The cycle of revenge, is begun…

since Mr. Earnshaw brought home Heathcliff to be raised as another child, the Earnshaws became a broken family and shows how a family should not act on any standards. “Miss Cathy and he were now very thick; but Hindley hated him, and to say the truth I did the same; and we plagued and went on with him shamefully, for I wasn’t reasonable enough to feel my injustice, and the mistress never put in a word on his behalf, when she saw him wronged.” (38) As you can see here the Earnshaw children hated…