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In Wuthering Heights, growing up seems to be an issue. The characters in the book find it very hard to mature into independent people on their own. However, there is a difference between the first major generation and the second: the first’s childishness is negative and intrusive to their lives, to the point there it’s very damaging towards them as people and the way that they treat others. The second generation, however, is somehow able to channel that silliness into transforming them as people…

The novel Wuthering Heights provides some interesting themes to ponder on. The complexity and strangeness of the story leaves a lot of it to be deciphered by the reader, instead of just placed on the pages in front of them. It is also interesting to see also how the characters interact and wind up in many cases rather similar to another. It seems that everyone in the book has a duplicate in some form or another. In the instance of Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw, their similarities are very…

characters that are the target or perpetrator, respectively. The perpetrators reduce the targets’ humanity to no more than property, which usually entails feeling indifferent or taking pleasure at the suffering of others. In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, cruelty functions as a meta-tool of to address various aspects of human nature. Three main instances that stem from different areas are Hindley’s cruelty towards Heathcliff, Heathcliff’s towards everyone (especially Linton) and Cathy’s…

A castle, a curious heroine, and a tragic love story are just three of the things that help create a gothic novel. When reading the novel, Wuthering Heights, it is extremely evident that the novel carries gothic themes and those themes are the true pillars of the novel itself. When people first hear the word “gothicism” many quickly jump to the conclusion that the gothicism genre is just something dark, or just something evil, and lastly just something supernatural, however, in all actuality…

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 remembered for what they’ve done and how they got their power. “The power of women is located in seduction and manipulation” (Thomas, 91) but that's not…

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 the two individuals and the building appear. Through the estate of Wuthering Heights, Brontë provides a physical…

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1847) involves the themes of the supernatural, the melancholy of characters, violence, and mystery. These features allow us to locate the novel in a large tradition of Gothic narrative. Following Sigmund Freud’s essay The Uncanny, the unheimlich purports that “something should be frightening because it is unknown and unfamiliar. … Something must be added to the novel and the unfamiliar if it is to become uncanny” (Freud 124-125). The Gothic novel, then, is…

Bronte’s Wuthering Heights has a dark love story wrapped within its plot. It shows what things are within us and how everything in our life affects us for better or for worse. It consists of elements like ghosts, love, deception, and death. The novel shows how characters change throughout the course out the story. The character Heathcliff starts out in the beginning of the story as a reserved boy who has no money, name, or family. Mr. Earnshaw brought him to live at Wuthering Heights and that is…

through both individual and global values that help guide our personal beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours. Volume one of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights reveals, through the plotline and character relationships, that values are essential to forming personal ideas including perceptions of love, jealousy, and revenge. Love throughout volume one of Wuthering Heights takes multiple forms, and is a central value in which characters hold dear to their lives. Two characters in particular that…

Wuthering 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…