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    Heathcliff, Heathcliff finds his light and happiness through his time with Catherine. The moment Mr.Earnshaw brought Heathcliff home he was instantly Mr.Earnshaws’ favorite, making Hindley Earnshaw jealous. After Mr.Earnshaw died Hindley finally had full control over Heathcliff, making sure his life was a living hell. When Hindley came home for Mr.Earnshaw’s…

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    These struggles that Heathcliff had to deal with having to do with Hindley and Cathy and many more individuals have affected his future and this is why Heathcliff does the things does in the future of the novel. Overall Heathcliff is not the force of evil in the novel, but perhaps the victim of it. Heathcliff had a rough…

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    Destructive love can affect more than just the couple that started it. In the story of “Macbeth,” the destructive love between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth not only destroyed them but it also destroyed King Duncan and his family including his sons who witnessed their father's death. As Donalbain and Malcolm are sitting in the courtyard after their father's death had been discovered they discuss what might happen to them Donalbain says to Malcolm “ Hid in an auger hole, may rush, and seize us? Lets…

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    Alienation In Frankenstein

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    arise from HeathCliff. He was taken under the wing of Mr Earnshaw and brought into the Earnshaw family. Heathcliff was always thought of as a nonnative presence in society and among the Earnshaw household. The only individuals who were affectionate towards him were Mr Earnshaw and Catherine. After Mr Earnshaw’s passing, Hindley, his son became the vendor of the estate. Due to past tension and abhorrence between HeathCliff and Hindley, Hindley compelled HeathCliff to be a worker and deprived…

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    Catherine to spend the rest of her life with her. If that means through a spirit, then that’s what Heathcliff wants. Through his anger and progression of revenge on Hindley, the arguments never fail to end up in Heathcliff hurting someone else for the relentless reason to get back at everyone who has anything to do with Edgar, Hindley, or…

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    gotten revenge. One of his main “targets” was Hindley. The instant Mr. Earnshaw died, Hindley took over the house. With this power he essentially made Heathcliff a servant. Heathcliff detested him for this and vowed heinous revenge. Going so far as to say, ““I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!” (69). To no surprise he does exact his revenge on Hindley. Heathcliff sucks away all of…

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    Thundered Heathcliff with savage vehemence.” We as the readers know that Heathcliff was in love with Catherine and furthermore the language that is used by Heathcliff in this quotation shows emphatic love and passion between the characters, and the words that were used to describe Heathcliff’s showing his emotions i.e. ‘thundered’ and ‘savage’ demonstrate the extremities of love that is presented here and which can be referred back to the title.…

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    Macbeth

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    The novel was about the passionate and destructive love between two central characters. One character is named Heathcliff and is raised with the Earnshaw children, Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw. Catherine grows to love Heathcliff but Hindley grows to hate him because Heathcliff replaces Hindley in Mr.Earnshaw’s affection. “ Terror made me cruel. . .” (Shakespeare, William, and Eugene M. Waith.The tragedy of Macbeth. New Haven: Yale U Press, 1954. Print.) Both the play…

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    Heathcliff Demonic

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    self- centered he is to his peers. Heathcliff is viewed as a demonic character because of his manipulation, cruelty, and selfishness. It is Heathcliff’s manipulative actions that portrays him as demonic. He focuses his entire life on destroying Hindley and Edgar. Obviously, he uses people just to advance his own selfish agenda. Heathcliff hurts others because of his past, and his manipulation stems from Heathcliff’s strong…

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    tasks and plots. With each and every character using such means as a defense mechanism to cope with their own faults and mistreatments. In particular, Heathcliff, whom was far from perfect at the start but gradually worsened through mistreatment from Hindley and even Cathrine in his youth. Within years, his use of cruel methods converted from a way to defend himself, to means for driving his entire life along the road of revenge. This desire to do nothing more than destroying those who had hurt…

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