Nelly Dean

Anger is a useful dramatic emotion used by writers for centuries . It is a psychological process in everybody's nature that should not be ignored . It is also a strong feeling of displeasure ,hostility , resulting from injury ,mistreatment and opposition and usually showing itself in a desire to fight back at the supposed causes of the feeling . Allen translates Aristotle's definition of anger as "…a desire ,commingled with pain , to see someone punished , and which is provoked by an apparent…

However, there was an element of suspicion in early readings of the text as the text was published under a male pseudonym: Ellis Bell, which made it perceived as a highly masculine text and for more than a century, women avoided this text under the threat of getting identified with the fate of Catherine Earnshaw and It was only after coming up of Freudian theory that this novel was seen as a female’s quest for self-consciousness. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth…

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…

incidents keep taking place to make these dreadful prophecies come true. The characters may come across various omens, in the form of dreams, visions, or signs and phenomenon indicating of some future event. Halfway into the novel, housekeeper Ellen (Nelly) Dean sees the phantom of her childhood companion and Catherine's brother, Hindley…

formative years. Through Heathcliff’s tumultuous relationship with Catherine, it becomes evident both characters are self-destructive, self-indulgent, and incapable of realizing how their behavior affects the lives of those around them. Ellen “Nelly” Dean, who spent the majority of her life in service to both Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw, serves as a non-detached first-person narrator and recounts the tragic events of the lives at Wuthering Heights through…

Wuthering Heights was written in 1847 by Emily Bronte. This novel deals with love between Heathcliff and Catherine who faces the odds of betrayal, heartbreak, and unacceptable relationships. For example, Heathcliff and Catherine’s as well as Isabelle and Heathcliff’s relationship was not acceptable to either families. Wuthering Heights takes place in the early 1800s where families were allowed to marry one another to keep their property and their family heirlooms. Society levels were well known…

always narrate. In Sherlock Holmes, Watson narrates, though Sherlock is the protagonist and this works well because Watson doesn’t know everything – unlike Sherlock, so the ‘whodunit’ aspect of the story is intact. In Wuthering Heights, Lockwood and Nelly are the narrators, and Cathy and Heathcliff the protagonists. These are what are termed ‘displaced narrators.’ Patrick Kelly’s A Hard Place is told in first person, as is my own WIP. Linda’s Black Shadow is narrated in first person using two…

Romantic hero or despicable villain? Discuss how Heathcliff is presented in Wuthering Heights and what his portrayal suggests about the nature of love. Wuthering Heights is a story of love and hatred, tenderness and revenge. It is a novel full of opposites and contradictions, one of these, the protagonist himself. It is difficult, regardless of how many times one has read it, to tell if Heathcliff is supposed to be the romantic hero or the despicable villain. This essay will discuss…

passionate and villainous, and violent. Catherine is destructive, determined and strong- willed woman. She is given a temper, and she is torn between her passions for Heathcliff and her social aspiration. She conveys misery to both men who love her. Nelly or Ellen Dean, the narrator , is an exceptionally quiet character. She is a sensible, intelligent, and sympathetic woman who grew up part of the Earnshaw children. Also, the female characters are undermined in gentility yet are fortified by…

story picks up again after Linton’s death when the two resume quarrelling. It is obvious that Hareton cares about Cathy though she is too arrogant to notice his small gestures of kindness, like when he returns the letter Mr. Lockwood brought from Nelly Dean to its recipient instead of giving it to Heathcliff. This note is in part important because of its relation to literacy, which symbolizes Cathy and Hareton’s love in the final chapters of the novel. Cathy proceeds to mock Hareton’s inability…