Heathcliff

woman considered to be from the middle class due to her father´s land. Heathcliff, however, reflected the lower class with no background nor a name or money or a good look. Edgar, unlike Heathcliff, was from the upper class. He had a well-known family name to rely on and land which he owned, in addition of all that, he had good looks, too. Catherine choose to marry Edgar. As a result to Catherine Earnshaw´s choice, Heathcliff…

throughout the story. Furthermore, violence and cruelty are two key factors to understand the way the story develops. For example, we find horror in the deaths of characters and their twisted ways, and romance in the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff, as well as between Cathy and Linton, then later, Cathy and Hareton. Another characteristic of horror would be violence, found in every aspect of the characters’ lives, specially in…

causes. The presentation of loss and suffering in various texts is symptomatic of the societies reflected within texts. ‘Wuthering Heights’ largely presents loss and suffering through the loss of innocence and childhood suffering faced by Cathy and Heathcliff. The loss of innocence symbolised by the total shift in Cathy’s appearance from Chapter 6 to 7 through the the adjective “barefoot” creating antithesis with the concrete noun “burnished shoes” to foreground how she has been introduced to…

Nelly and Edgar are both very well acquainted with Catherine and she is consistently emotional with both of them. However, like with most things, personal experiences and feelings affect how a situation is viewed. This causes Edgar and Nelly to perceive Catherine’s behavior very differently. Edgar’s views of Catherine are clouded by his romantic feelings to her and the fact that they are married which comes with a set of social standards that they are both held accountable for. Nelly is more of…

In the novel, Heathcliff is a Byronic hero who has a past that can be empathized with but executes a revenge plan that makes him unlikable. Heathcliff overhears Nelly and Catherine’s conversation and “had listened till he hear Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed to hear no further” only to return to Wuthering Heights years later with a revenge plan that he…

Conceived from a society experiencing drastic social upheaval, mutinous political unrest, and revolutionary scientific and technological advancements, Gothic literature emulates the society in which it was born and has transcended generations with its evolution of a literary archetype, whose charismatic and vicious personality captivates its audiences. During the nineteenth century, the romantic-gothic literary movement featured unconventional writers such as Lord Byron, Mary Shelly, and Emily…

that it is indeed possible to use these apparent disadvantages as a means to improve yourself. The hero of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, was by any account, a man of humble origins. Not only was he an orphan without a last name, but he was also abused and tormented by other children‐such as Hindley‐of his new household. Constantly frustrated at every turn in life, Heathcliff as a boy could not marry Catherine‐who he loved‐partially…

explores a more emotional romantic love with the characterisation of the relationship between Cathy and Heathcliff.…

beginning to macbeth wanted to prove that he was brave and a man. It was a marvellous effort of perspicacity to discover that I did not love her” heathcliff said that he loved her, but was jealous when catherine married edgar (Galef 187). Isabella is “heavy with despair” to know that heathcliff doesn’t care that she love him (Galef 246). Isabella knew that heathcliff would never fully love her, even though catherine had already ran away from wuthering heights. In the play macbeth, when lady…

torture, crime, and abuse so it has become almost desensitized to how terrible it can be. Cruelty is what made Heathcliff into such a terrible person which is why the most important themes in the book exist and what made this classic stand out against many of the books written in this time period. Cruelty will never fully go away, it will only continue to create monsters like Heathcliff, who come to make great impacts and only spread…