Isabella of France

For a visual text to be effective characters must be hurt or destroyed. Would you ever get married to someone who you don’t love to get back at someone you do love? Could you watch the love of you life go through dangerous inner torture? Should you be able to get through life where everything is calm and there is no drama, pain or darkness? These are some of the questions in which the director, Coky Giedroyc, wanted the audience to ask themselves when they were watching the film adaption of…

feminine norm from the start, Isabella was forced to her feminist actions by the world around her as she experienced the ways her society could be harmful to her. It is when she is Isabella Heathcliff rather than Isabella Linton that her fight begins. Having followed the path of marriage, Isabella soon learns that she was naïve in her love for Heathcliff and finds herself in a marriage rife with violence and hatred. This could also be a sort of punishment for Isabella having followed the…

During the eighteenth century social class controlled the way people went through lives, such as affecting whom people married. Throughout the books Persuasion and Wuthering Heights the characters express how social class affects their lives and the outcome of their lives. During these two books social class and marriage are extremely important to the story line, both books do not let the thought of social class overcome love, although the way they both get to that point is different. During…

The theme of insiders and outsiders plays an important role in Wuthering Heights. The main determining factor of what makes a person an insider or outsider is social class. This is demonstrated through Heathcliff. Heathcliff is considered an outsider because he is of a lower social class then most of the people around him. When he and Catherine are caught outside Thrushcross Grange, he is told he looks and out-and-outer (61) and shortly sent on his way. Catherine stayed and was taught to be more…

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…

During our adolescent years which range from 10-19 years old both males and females experience some sort of 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…

Passion can drive a person insane. For most people, passionate love is a strong emotion and desire. Emily Bronte turns this desire into a dark aspect of human nature. This uncontrollable desire is shown between the main characters, Heathcliff and Catherine. In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff befriends his step sister, Catherine, and they inevitably fall for each other. Heathcliff struggles to control his desire for Catherine making him vulnerable to self-destruction. Heathcliff’s passion consumes…

reality and real emotions. After marrying Heathcliff, Isabella Linton discovers her husband’s true vengeful self and the growing hatred between him and Hindley Earnshaw. She constantly feels trapped in her marriage and the hostile environment at Wuthering Heights, but she finds respite by delving into books: “I dared hardly lift my eyes from the page before me, that melancholy scene so instantly usurped its place” (191). Through reading, Isabella is able to mentally escape the tension and…

to what lies inside of you.” In Emily Brontë’s gothic romance Wuthering Heights, Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw along with their gypsy brother, Heathcliff, the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights, live a completely altered life than that of Edgar and Isabella Linton. The Linton’s, inhabitants of Thrushcross Grange, live a lavish life of luxury and high social class. Protagonists, Heathcliff and Catherine, are inseparable and, as a result, an eternal love is formed. However, Catherine’s life changes…

The plot of Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, is fueled by the actions of many characters in the novel as a result of their motivations-- whether it be love, fear, or spite. Heathcliff, a gypsy boy that is adopted by the Earnshaws, rises to power throughout the years because he seeks revenge against his family and the Lintons. Heathcliff’s revenge is driven by hate for his social standing- he is unable to be with his true love, Catherine, because he is too poor. The assassination of Heathcliff…