Hindley Earnshaw

“A Gothic hero should be passionate, obsessive and unsettling in equal measure.” In light of this comment, discuss the representation of both heroes and heroines in the Gothic texts you have studied this year. Gothic heroes were first known as Byronic heroes being ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’; they normally had a problematic and secretive past therefore isolating themselves from the world be it physically or mentally. Gothic heroines are stereotypically seen to be young, innocent and a…

She succeeds in her second escape attempt, and arrives, bleeding and breathless, at the Grange. She tells Nelly that she had “run the whole way from Wuthering Heights… except where [she had] flown,” (157). When Hindley and Heathcliff were fighting, the former told Isabella that “[Heathcliff]’ll be [her] death, unless [she] can over reach him,” (161). Her ability to find strength and escape from Heathcliff shows bravery and self empowerment. She leaves a dangerous…

“I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”(Bronte 153) When Catherine died Heathcliff cried out in vain and agony. Her love was the only thing that kept him from completely losing himself, but, when she passed, Heathcliff could not handle the pain and cursed her and himself to a lifetime of torment and misery. He called out at the wind, and pleaded for her to stay with him forever. Heathcliff was so lost, his only resort was to ask a higher power not to let her go. Because…