Houston Heights

to the mid 1800s. This book is the recollection of Elizabeth Hamilton’s life. Eliza Hamilton is the most important character of this book. She is about the age of 20 when the book begins and is at death when the book ends. She is about the average height, with dark hair and eyes. She is a very slender woman, but as she recalls not very beautiful. Alexander Hamilton is the next most important character, who is the husband of Elizabeth. He…

“All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill,” these words by Edgar Lee Master set the stage for a beautifully written and insightful piece of literature. Every epitaph is written with its own personality and motif. These different motifs are; regret, peace through death, guilt, life, and equality. With many of the epitaphs being about death, many of the people in the epitaphs look back with regret. With a large portion of the poems being about regret, there are some that show the…

In the love and revenge tale of “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte, the character Heathcliff suffers injustice; therefore he also causes injustice to others around him. His experience with injustice makes him vengeful and sought out to hurt others. He was an orphan, taken in by Mr. 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.…

Emily Bronte was an amazing poet. She was even more famous for her novel Wuthering Heights, but she wrote other great poems too. She had a certain writing style that reflected on her past. She wrote many poems such as “Fall, Leaves, Fall,” “Love and Friendship,” and “Remembrance,” They all are great poems, but what caused her to write these? Emily Bronte has an interesting past and wrote great poems. Bronte was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, England. She was the fifth daughter…

dark side of the force, and transforms into Darth Vader to avenge her death. Displaying behaviors that allow him to be branded a Byronic hero, he even shares a similar fate with the character Heathcliff in Emily Bronte’s romantic novel Wuthering Heights. Taking on the role of a Byronic hero, Heathcliff follows the model set forth by Lord Byron himself with his own Byronic heroes: intelligent, manipulative, and emotionally complex. This type of anti-hero seems tough and domineering, but falls…

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…

1. pg 2 Wuthering Heights is a dynamic dwelling. As mentioned by Mr. Lockwood, the home experiences harsh weather conditions, which is why the name fits it perfectly. Lockwood 's description implies how he believes it is against humans and not welcoming. He was not graciously invited in and had a multitude of conflicts once he set foot in the premises. 2. pg. 3 Lockwood provides insight into the ambiguous nature of Heathcliff. The new houseguest reveals how Heathcliff does not fit in, as he is…

In her essay Jane Austen and John Keats: Negative capability, Romance and Reality, Beth Lau connects the two writers previously not commonly associated. Most comparisons of Austen and Romantic poets are with Wordsworth and Byron, as it is known she read their works. Alas, even without her reading works of John Keats, parallels between ideas in their works can be made (Lau, 2006). The fact remains that concepts of Romantic period, canon and ideology are based on the assumption of shared…

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,…