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“(Wo)Man in the Mirror”: Psychoanalysis of Catherine Earnshaw Character is defined as “the mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual” (“Character”). Emily Brontë’s classic gothic novel Wuthering Heights, has numerous individuals with memorable characteristics and qualities. Catherine Earnshaw is an exemplary individual with unforgettable qualities that make her Catherine Earnshaw. Throughout the novel, Catherine shows her different character traits. Catherine Earnshaw’s character…

Earnshaw and Linton Heathcliff’s childhoods are that Hareton grew up as a lonely orphan subjected to Heathcliff’s severe abuse from an early age, whereas Linton’s loving mother raised him through his childhood in a nice, pampered lifestyle. In Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, Hareton is more pitiable than Linton since he was raised as a pawn of Heathcliff’s revenge and his naivety of this maltreatment ruined his life. Hareton’s ignorance of Heathcliff’s deliberate animosity is pitiful because…

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a novel by English author Anne Bronte, sister to Emily Bronte and Charlotte Bronte. The novel was distributed in 1848 and recounts the tale of focal characters Helen Huntington and Gilbert Markham. The story's perspective exchanges between that of Gilbert and Helen, told as a letter Gilbert is keeping in touch with his brother by marriage and passages from Helen's journal that she endows to Gilbert. In the novel, Helen Huntington touches base in the town where…

Wuthering Heights explores a variety of kinds of love, the main focus being Heathcliff and Catherine 's heated passion for each other, which is terribly destructive because of their intense connection. Catherine and Heathcliff’s relationship can be viewed to consist of conventional love rather than affected love in a contemporary society because conventional love is described as genuine, caring and forgiving, which are attributes displayed by both characters. However, the novel is set in the…

People are complex beings, not only predictable, but at times also unpredictable; no one knows what someone might do. In Emily Bronte’s chilling novel Wuthering Heights, she has managed to create a character that suffers the consequences for the revenge he plots in the name of love, and for power over those who treated him as if he were worth nothing. Heathcliff’s evolution into a man who thrives on the destruction of other people’s happiness suffers along with those he destroys, creating a life…

Wuthering Heights Essay - Is Heathcliff truly evil? I think with the modern understanding of the way childhood affects one's whole perception of life and the world, we would be arrogant to call Heathcliff evil.…

brow and buried my forehead into the mud. I had enough, I had enough money after three years of hiding and deceiving to make my way back to Wuthering Heights and to cause Hindley, Edgar, and so many others deep, horrible pain. My wicked laugh turned into a sort of howling as I gathered the money into a large pile. The journey to Wuthering Heights was a long and painful one from London. I spent days crossing over wide fields and tripping across the slick rocks buried under the water of rushing…

Throughout the novel Heathcliff struggles with his position and social status in the Earnshaw household after the death of Mr. Earnshaw. He wants to progress forward in his education and gain respect from the residents of Wuthering Heights but he gets nowhere with Hindley 's abuse and mistreatment and Catherine´s coercion. There are several limits that Heathcliff tries to overcome to rise above his status as a homeless orphan and later a slave with no education. Hindley´s abuse and degradation,…

Revenge is a common theme in Wuthering Heights. Revenge is the act of hurting or harming somebody for something he or she has previously done. Most people normally look at revenge as a negative act towards other people. A character that is extremely cruel to many people because of his past is Heathcliff. Heathcliff seeks revenge on anyone for his or her previous actions towards him. This makes him a brutal and a melancholy character as a result of his destructive revenge. One can see this when…

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, during this time, men are supposed to be capable of emulating strength and and be able to protect the family. Men who are incapable are seen as immature and soft. Edgar Linton is a spoiled, cowardly man who failed to be a strong protector to his family. Edgar Linton was a spoiled child who grew up sheltered in his home, oblivious to the harms of the outside world. Using imagery, Thrushcross Grange is a place that is “carpeted with crimson” (48) and has…