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    The Ones We Love? Family; a blessing, or a curse? In the book Night, Elie Wiesel offers many significant themes, but the question, “is family a blessing or a curse,” is one of the most prevalent and begging themes in the novel. During the novel, Wiesel often questions if he should try and keep his father around, or if life would just be better without him in the picture. “‘Don’t let me find him! If only I could get rid of this dead weight, so that I could use all my strength to struggle for my…

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    The first flashback is of Hasmukh Mehta in which he tells the audience about his upbringing and how he has been influnced by it. It gives an insight as to why he is so dominating in nature and wants everyone to obey him. The second flashback is of Kiran, who tells the Mehta family about her relationship with Hasmukh and her drunkard husband. Kiran tells Sonal about the different dimension of their relationship and how Hasmukh has been inconsiderate to the feelings of the people around him. She…

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    You're alone in an unfamiliar, dirty The-Street-Ann-Petryand bitter city, just looking for a place to spend the night. The Street by Ann Petry is a novel about a woman, Lutie Johnson, who finds herself in this situation. The relationship between Lutie Johnson and the city-based setting is established by the use of (giving a non-living thing qualities of a living thing/existence of a perfect living representation of something), (putting pictures into your mind) and description, in The Street by…

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    Heathcliff Superstition

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    same wild nature she did, and through her ghost, which haunts Wuthering Heights. In the end of the novel, Catherine’s daughter will seemingly own both the properties, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, through her expected marriage to Hareton Earnshaw. The ghost maintains Catherine’s supreme ownership over Heathcliff himself, who owns both property’s and when he dies it ensures that Catherine’s daughter will have a chance to reclaim the land. The idea that “Hareton and Catherine II…

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    The theme of insiders and outsiders plays an important role in Wuthering Heights. The main determining factor of what makes a person an insider or outsider is social class. This is demonstrated through Heathcliff. Heathcliff is considered an outsider because he is of a lower social class then most of the people around him. When he and Catherine are caught outside Thrushcross Grange, he is told he looks and out-and-outer (61) and shortly sent on his way. Catherine stayed and was taught to be more…

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    Macbeth’s last chance to think clearly, after it, he gives himself over the powers of emotions, pride, fear, anger, and power. Lady Macbeth has planned Duncan’s murder, and Macbeth is now thinking it out. “I dare do all that may become a man.” Mr. Earnshaw introduces Heathcliff to his family by saying that he is “as dark almost as if it came from the devil.” Heathcliff determination to gain control of both Wuthering Heights and the Grange is driven by his desire to become master. During a three…

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    Passion can drive a person insane. For most people, passionate love is a strong emotion and desire. Emily Bronte turns this desire into a dark aspect of human nature. This uncontrollable desire is shown between the main characters, Heathcliff and Catherine. In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff befriends his step sister, Catherine, and they inevitably fall for each other. Heathcliff struggles to control his desire for Catherine making him vulnerable to self-destruction. Heathcliff’s passion consumes…

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    attacked by Heathcliff’s dogs, but they are called off. Chapter 2: Lockwood has a difficult time accessing the entrance to the Heights the next morning. He meets a young man and woman whose identities are llater revealed by Heathcliff as Hareton Earnshaw and Catherine Linton. A storm occurs, forcing Lockwood to stay at Wuthering Heights. No one offers to help him walk back to the Grange, so he journeys alone. The dogs chase and hurt him as he walks away. Zillah, the maid, gives him a room to…

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    Wuthering Heights

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    Lockwood takes notes in his diary. To start with, Nelly, as a young woman, starts to work as a servant in Wuthering Heights for Mr. Earnshaw and his family. One day, Mr Earnshaw returns from Liverpool with an orphan child to be part of the family. However, Hindley, the oldest child of Mr Earnshaw and his wife, does not accept him. But, Catherine, the eldest girl of Mr Earnshaw…

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    When truly breaking down the relationship that Heathcliff and Catherine helf it is important to realize that they were raised to be siblings due to the fact that Heathcliff was brought into the Earnshaw family. The fact that Heathcliff and Catherine were raised to be half-siblings just adds to the dark, taboo, but romantic nature of the gothic themes. Other than them being half-siblings the overall obsession to ruin Catherine’s life is also extremely…

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