Hindley Earnshaw

Containing a multitude of ideas and themes, Wuthering Heights raises the question: what is Emily Brontë’s purpose that she wants the reader to grasp? It is plausible that the message pertains to women and the struggles encountered during that time. Brontë utilizes her characters in Wuthering Heights to show women’s struggles with being regarded as inferior to men in misogynistic, Victorian England. Brontë gives the reader a glimpse of the laws in effect that display the restrictions set on…

In 1847 Emily Brontë published Wuthering Heights; a novel as eccentric as it is unsettling, its themes including the oppositional natures of horror and beauty, dreams and reality, hate and adoration, fused into one strange and dark novel. This essay is a comparative analysis of two film adaptations of Brontë’s novel; the thesis being the 1939 film adaptation, titled Wuthering Heights and directed by William Wyler, presents the story within the romance genre. By comparison the 2011 adaptation…

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 in by cruel people: Jane by her aunt and Hindley by his uncle. Both are abused relentlessly: Jane by her cousin and Hindley by his uncle. The difference between these two characters is that Jane grows from it and Hindley allows himself to suffer from…

Heathcliff, and upon his arrival only half of the household were welcoming of him. Hindley and Mrs.Earnshaw did not like Heathcliff at all, so they made his life miserable since they could not get rid of him. Heathcliff was already lonely and did not know a lot of affection due to him previously being an orphan. Although Mr.Earnshaw and Catherine he learned some love and companionship. Even though Mrs.Earnshaw and Hindley made it hard for him to be happy. The…

In the novel Great Expectations the author presents many different forms of love and different approaches to love through various characters such as Estella who communicates distant love to Pip, Miss Havisham who displays selfish love and as well as Pip who learns what love is and how to love throughout the novel. Great Expectations reveals a sort of coincidental relationship. Characters relations and behaviour link from one character to another for example, Estella’s withheld love is a result…

Sylvia Plath makes it clear in her poem, “Daddy” that her father was a male-dominating, evil individual. Just because she and her father were bound together by blood, doesn’t mean that she doesn’t want to escape his overpowering grasp. Sylvia Plath put a playful twist on the cold-blooded relationship she and her father had during life and death. By writing this poem in such a wicked tone, Plath makes it notable that she was unhappy and dreaded being or thinking of her father. Through metaphors,…

Although accomplishing anything can be difficult without passion, too much passion leads to obsessiveness. Unlike passion, obsessiveness causes the mind to go mad by disregarding its surroundings and dedicating every moment to one sole purpose and focus. This tunnel vision affects a person’s ability to make choices that will benefit himself and those around him or her in the future. This scenario presents itself in several pieces of literature including Wuthering Heights, “Porphyria’s Lover,”…

In the tragic novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontët resolution and character motivation depicts revenge in an unorthodox view shedding light on the power it can have in someone's life. Heathcliff’s character motivation to get revenge on Edgar and Catherine Linton for wronging him is apparent throughout the novel. Catherine was clearly in love with Heathcliff, but confided in Nelly that she wanted to marry Edgar due to his higher social status. Obviously, this angered Heathcliff and he…

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…

at peace there. -Since Catherine Earnshaw’s death, Heathcliff has changed, as become evident through his empathy here. He has a scornful attitude towards Hareton and his veneration as well as only thinks about how this relationship would affect Hindley, who has long since been dead. This enforces Heathcliff’s personality characterized by a disturbing fixation with the past. -Although these characters seem to live in complete isolation, here is one of the few times the outside world is…