Morningside Heights

In The Tragedy of Macbeth and Wuthering Heights, Shakespeare and Bronte introduces relationships with a power struggle between Macbeth and Lady Macbeth, Catherine, and Heathcliff. Lady Macbeth is a treacherous and cunning woman. She tricks her husband into killing king Duncan by telling him that he is a coward and that a real man would follow his ambitions so that Macbeth could be king.Catherine Thomas explains “Shakespeare’s Lady Macbeth borrows from earlier “ monstrous women” stereotypes but…

You're alone in an unfamiliar, dirty The-Street-Ann-Petryand bitter city, just looking for a place to spend the night. The Street by Ann Petry is a novel about a woman, Lutie Johnson, who finds herself in this situation. The relationship between Lutie Johnson and the city-based setting is established by the use of (giving a non-living thing qualities of a living thing/existence of a perfect living representation of something), (putting pictures into your mind) and description, in The Street by…

Crown Heights, located in Brooklyn, is known to be a diverse neighborhood. It is notoriously known to an unsafe and run-down neighborhood, but the recent gentrification of the neighborhood is proving its reputation wrong. There have been numerous reports of tension and anti-Semitism between the Black people and Jews in Crown Heights. One of the main incidents that occurred between them is the August 1991 riot, which was said by Henry Goldschmidt, a scholarly author and researcher, to be the most…

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 Wuthering Heights. The series was based off the 170 year old novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. In Coky Giedroyc’s two-part television series Wuthering Heights we, as an audience, come to understand that his series was effective as many characters…

extends her power after death through ownership as well. Her legacy of strength surely lives on in her child, who has the same wild nature she did, and through her ghost, which haunts Wuthering Heights. In the end of the novel, Catherine’s daughter will seemingly own both the properties, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, through her expected marriage to Hareton Earnshaw. The ghost maintains Catherine’s supreme ownership over Heathcliff himself, who owns both property’s and when he dies…

independence from the Soviet Union. Futhermore, Assad was becoming to be well liked after Syria’s Arab oil boom. Syria grew very rich very fast during the boom of oil in the middle east. Hafez again gained support when he attacked Israel in the Golan Heights in October 1973, which started the Yom Kippur War ("Hafez Al-Assad”). The…

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 Wuthering Heights and Persuasion social class and marriage affect the story and the characters.…

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…

women get control in the relationship, jealousy leads to betrayal, love becomes an addiction, destructive power, and men try to regain control. The theme of self-destructive love within relationships in Shakespeare's Macbeth and Bronte's Wuthering Heights are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. Women who have sovereignty are remembered for what they’ve done and how they got their power. “The power of women is located in seduction and manipulation” (Thomas, 91) but that's not…

Today’s writing day. Great! Let’s begin, but wait, is your work area set up properly? I think so, but how can I know? To find out, Sit. Sit? Yes, sitting is something as a writer, you’ll be doing frequently. Sitting properly can reduce injury therefore increase productivity and allow creative ideas to flow. When you’re able to focus on ideas over how much pain there is you become more creative and therefore a better writer. If your workspace is set properly you will be able to use appropriate…