Heathcliff

usage of revenge adds further interest to this novel. As can be read in the book, Heathcliff was adopted and mistreated by his non biological brother, Hindley. Years pass, and, after Heathcliff’s three-year hiatus, Heathcliff returns to find Hindley an insane drunkard and takes the opportunity to exact revenge. In Chapter 3, one reads, “He [Hindley] has been blaming our father (how dared he?) for treating H. [Heathcliff] too liberally; and swears he will reduce him to his right place” (Bronte…

has a passion for passion. Catherine Sr. loves the wild Heathcliff and desires defiance of rules and limitations. As a child, “Her spirits were always at a high-water mark, her tongue always going…a wild, wick slip she was” (33). Nelly, the narrator of this scene, describes Catherine Sr.’s spirits as a type of…

As an orphan gypsy unloved since his birth, Heathcliff grows up to become a sadistic, cruel, vengeful and immoral man. He is usually described by other characters and often referred to as something like the devil or as evil and this is precisely reflects the way he behaves and acts. He is described…

resentment at being taken away from Heathcliff, showing further that she misses her childhood (92). In this same scene, she madly describes what would be happening currently if she still lived at Wuthering Heights, with Joseph and Heathcliff especially. She describes it with a euphoric sense of joy (93). When faced with the decision between Edgar or Heathcliff, she ridiculously wants both instead of making the decision. She consistently thinks that she can still have Heathcliff even if she…

Catherine go through everything she loves about Edgar to ensure she is making the right choice of choosing him over her other lover, Heathcliff. Nelly also sympathized with Heathcliff as she understood the evilness in his behavior as a cry for help. Bearing witness to the actions of Hindley and Mrs. Earnshaw’s neglect to him, Nelly was the only one to understand why Heathcliff was the way he…

Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre, are nature. Within both of these texts the Bronte sister’s use vivid imagery to describe the nature around them. In Wuthering Heights, the nature surrounding both estates is seen as mysterious, and a place where both Heathcliff and Cathy are able to explore the outdoors. In Jane Eyre, Jane is able to see freedom within nature, because she is often confined to being indoors, as well as not being allowed to have her own freedom. While these texts are extremely…

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…

“Loving you was the most exquisite form of self-destruction” (David Jones). Destructive love is caused by many aspects of a relationship. Those aspects are women get control in the relationship, jealousy leads to betrayal, love becomes an addiction, destructive power, and men try to regain control. The theme of self-destructive love within relationships in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Bronte's Wuthering Heights are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. Women who have sovereignty are…

Church prompted her move to the industrial North, making Margaret alone in her opinions and her way of living. Wuthering Heights, on the other hand, has an overall tone and prevailing sense of desolate loneliness and solitude, mainly in the form of Heathcliff, but also in his surroundings. Both novels’ usage of the theme of finding one’s true nature in solitude reflects the Victorian tendency to use Gothic…

Throughout the duration of Wuthering Heights, the characters such as Heathcliff and Hindley embody traits similar to her brother that immensely impacted her life. Her brother, Patrick Branwell Brontë, suffered from the effects from being an alcoholic and a drug addict. Patrick died at a young age of 31 from tuberculosis. Patrick is noted having an abusive and aggressive behavior towards others. Likewise, Hindley and Heathcliff often possess aggressive tendencies towards others in the novel.…