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    In " Wuthering Heights", by Emily Bronte the whole novel revolves around the cruelty that each character has toward another. Every character in this novel exhibits some type of cruelty to another in some type of way or form whether it may be voluntary or not, with the exception of the narrator being Mr. Lockwood. The cruelty in the story creates the downfall and eventually leads to the death of most of the major characters. Cruelty takes many forms in the novel and has a major influence in the…

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    In Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, people are able to sympathize with others when they have knowledge about the terms of their situation, and Bronte demonstrates this by including Heathcliff, an evil man by nature that receives sympathy from the reader because as humans, the reader justifies any of Heathcliff’s negative actions, to be a result of his situation, so rather than be angry, the reader continues to feel sympathy for them. Heathcliff is portrayed as a cruel and evil man…

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    The novel Wuthering Heights provides some interesting themes to ponder on. The complexity and strangeness of the story leaves a lot of it to be deciphered by the reader, instead of just placed on the pages in front of them. It is also interesting to see also how the characters interact and wind up in many cases rather similar to another. It seems that everyone in the book has a duplicate in some form or another. In the instance of Heathcliff and Hareton Earnshaw, their similarities are very…

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    The dictionary defines manipulation as “the influence or use of another, especially in an unfair manner, for one’s own benefit or advantage.” Although the manipulators often end up worse off in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, manipulation is the ever-present underlying evil readily dispersed in an attempt to influence opinions, to secure personal gain, and to cause injury to another. Manipulation manifests itself in multiple forms throughout the novel. One way manipulation is subtly shown is…

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    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…

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    like Isabella Linton who was trapped and abused by her husband Heathcliff. Isabella eventually escapes from her entrapment and runs away as Jane escapes her 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…

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    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…

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    Revenge In Frankenstein

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    The gothic novel Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley, focuses around the downfall of a scientist, Victor, and his obsession with creating a monster. In Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, two neighboring families grow together by love and death, causing them all to suffer. These gothic elements are caused by the pursuit to regain justice. Heathcliff and the creature are plagued with revenge, ruthlessly killing their enemy’s families, bringing about their demise. Revenge comes about in…

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    Passion, love, and desire encourage transgression, which eventually leads to Gretchen’s death sentence in Goethe’s Faust and Catherine Sr.’s and Isabella’s death from fever in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. The women have passions for passion and desires to be desired that they discover through their involvement in forbidden romantic relationships with the male protagonists. Goethe’s Gretchen acts well-behaved until she becomes tempted by the beauty of “such jewels! [A] rich array” (I.2791), and…

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    The 1939 screen adaptation of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by William Wyler, tells the story of two troubled souls destined for a life of failed happily ever after. The story opens with Mr. Lockwood, the new garage tenant, appearing at Wuthering Heights to take Shelter from a storm. While there, he encounters the haunting spirit of Cathy, calling out to her love, Heathcliff. Unnerved, Mr. Lockwood tells his tale to Ellen, the housekeeper, who then…

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