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    The theme of Destructive love within relationships in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. In Wuthering Heights, characters find themselves unable to understand the meaning of love, but rather engage in a series of destructive; dysfunctional relationships with one another. The worst of these is the destructive nature of the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine. Catherine knows that Heathcliff is the one she really…

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    relationship, or at least try to. But most of the time, we’re so young that we don’t even know what it is exactly that we may want or need from a relationship. Well, in this passage, Wuthering Heights, a similar predicament is expressed with Catherine and Heathcliff. In the passage given from chapter seven of Wuthering heights, Catherine and Heathcliff have a strange ongoing relationship, both wanting to be together but also impeding themselves from forming a formal relationship. After months…

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    Wuthering Heights begins from the point of view of Lockwood, who is a man from the city who is running away after accidentally leading a woman. He rents a house at Wuthering Heights, which is located in an English moor and is constantly battered by stormy and violent weather. Lockwood is greeted by Heathcliff, who he judgmentally describes as a wannabe gentlemen. Heathcliff is entertained after Lockwood encounters his savage dogs. Lockwood later returns to Wuthering Heights during a blizzard and…

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    Wuthering Heights and Rumpelstiltskin At first glance, when reading Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, one might consider it the epitome of Gothic Romance. From its isolated setting on the Yorkshire moors to its classic Byronic hero Heathcliff, it is no wonder Wuthering Heights is characterized as a Gothic novel. However, one should not judge too quickly, as Wuthering Heights contains fairy tale elements as well. From a hero or heroine who overcomes obstacles to ‘live happily ever after’ - on…

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    insert their opinions. Some characters, such as Mr. Earnshaw, see great value in a servant’s opinion and rely on it. Other characters in Wuthering Heights choose to ignore a servant’s advice or see this opinion as a threat to their higher position. Although Nelly’s opinions as a servant are often ignored, she still sees her importance at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange and never wishes to have a position other than of service (Tytler 48). On the other hand, some servants slack off…

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    Bronte’s Wuthering Heights has a dark love story wrapped within its plot. It shows what things are within us and how everything in our life affects us for better or for worse. It consists of elements like ghosts, love, deception, and death. The novel shows how characters change throughout the course out the story. The character Heathcliff starts out in the beginning of the story as a reserved boy who has no money, name, or family. Mr. Earnshaw brought him to live at Wuthering Heights and that is…

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    The Struggle of Today’s Arab Youth At a time when the western world and all the freedoms enjoyed in it are a tap or click away; the struggle for Arab youth is an entirely foreign one to previous generations. Arab youth are struggling with a crisis of their learned identity clashing severely with the world they see in mass culture, a free world they desperately want to live in and be a part of. Access to the Internet, technology and the resultant rapidly amplified globalization has made their…

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    effects lead the person to believe that they are unimportant and that they are incapable of living a normal life. The difference between feeling sad and being in a state of depression sparks major differences physically and mentally. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, the character of Heathcliff suffered with depression, which created a domino effect that inflicted pain not only to himself, but also to all the other characters he interacted with, and his depression became the essential cause…

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    Dracula and Wuthering Heights: Did They Conform? Both the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Dracula by Bram Stoker conform to the societal norms of their time but not in a direct way. The characters in Wuthering Heights like Catherine for example, do make decisions like marrying Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff which is a reasonable decision as she wants to keep her status and be rich. The characters in Dracula, especially the females, conform to society as they do not meddle in…

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    too simple and boring, not realistic of the pain and sorrow associated with this concept of love. Many times, fate leads people down a path separate from our intended plan, but sometimes love falls short of our intended purpose. In both, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, and Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet, the theme is love, and the chaos or unhappy ending in many people 's stories. So, the characters Romeo and Heathcliff, share many differences and similarities in their social standing,…

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