Heathcliff

Jane was trapped and abused as a child, much like Isabella Linton who was trapped and abused by her husband Heathcliff. Isabella eventually escapes from her entrapment and runs away as Jane escapes her aunt’s house by going to school. Jane’s young life parallels Hindley’s life in Wuthering Heights (Morris 162). Like Jane, Hindley is an orphan. Both are taken…

Wuthering Heights , by Emily Bronte, is a novel of love, deceit, and revenge. Catherine Earnshaw loves Heathcliff, but marries Edgar Linton instead. The story’s narrator Ellen Dean, a housemaid, describes Catherine as dramatic and manipulative. She believes Catherine uses her emotions as a ploy to get her way. Catherine's husband Edgar would disagree. In his eyes Catherine uses her intellect and emotions to prove a point, but these emotions at times do alarm him. Both Ellen and Edgar believe…

self indulgent attitudes and their pessimistic natures foreshadow their grim fates. Heathcliff and Cathy’s refusal to overcome their fatal flaws of selfishness and vengeance cause them to live in self-inflicted torment. Catherine’s selfishness in coveting an elevated rank in…

Heart Of Darkness is one of the most important Joseph Conrad’s novels. It was written in 1899 in English, his third language, and its main topics are the relation between civilitation and savages and the evil side of the human being. It is considered to be one of the most difficult books to understand because the quantity of symbols that dull the reading. During the story, there are a lot of details we have to consider and think about them as messages the writter wanted to reflect. Let’s divide…

In our reality, storms are violent, turbulent and windy collections of forceful power. In writing, they are a strong and substantial metaphor for a feeling or situation with all the destructing and dominant force of a storm. In Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” there are many different aspects of stormy weather packed into the novel, each one specifically expressing something explicit to its subject. These stormy metaphors and similes show that Dostoevsky shows the somber chaotic…

I sat across from a greasy skinned, nearly toothless man. He grinned at me, causing his mischievous, dirty gray eyes to crinkle around the corners. I returned the stare with almost black eyes full of bitter hatred. I hated everyone, everyone except my beautiful Catherine, and sometimes I had to stop myself from hating her. My only drive was revenge; my body was always stiff, my head always pounding. I brushed sticky crumbs off the sticky table. “Shut The Box.” I said in a low, rough voice. I was…

What happends when twins get jealous of each other? The short story about Sparrow and Finch tells us about that. Two siblings, where the older one of them is more loved than the youngest and have a better life and where the youngest just stand along the sideline watching. The protagonist of the story is a girl named Sparrow after the bird, for short she is called Spaz, however she prefers to be called Rowie or Row since Spaz isn’t that nice. She is the youngest twin and she claims that it was…

“Lewis’s Narrates the progress of Ambrosios destruction as his lust leads him to atrocious crimes.” These words of David McCracken concisely depict The Monk which takes the readers through a chaotic journey . In the book The Monk there are many conflicts that are in the way of the characters. Through the use of religion, Romance, and Greed, Matthew Lewis reflect the elements of the supernatural, sexual temptation, and Fallen man thus expressing Gothic Literature. The element of supernatural…

Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is seeking Justice. He is looking for revenge since he was brutally abused and was treated very badly. He had many problems with Hindley and passed through some horrible times. First, in the story of Wuthering Heights, Heathclif and Hindley had many problems between each other. Heathcliff was currently seeking revenge on him. He didn’t care how long it would take to seek revenge on him, but he only hoped he didn’t die before Hindley. In the book, Heathcliff…

Article Review The article ´´The Cycle of the Seasons: Without and Within Time´´ by Virginia L. Wolf published in the Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Volume 10, Number 4, Winter in 1986 compares and contrasts the following novels: E. B. White's Charlotte's Web, Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House in the Big Woods, Eleanor Estes's The Moffats, and Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, Part I. The article focuses on the analysis of nature´s life cycle and how it is represented through…