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    that of Isabella’s and Catherine’s. Although she does have feelings for, and cares for Linton, he abuses that love, as well as his sickness, to pressure her into staying in a relationship with him. Catherine is initially unaware of this abuse, until Nelly warns her “that [she] is not the person to benefit him, and that his condition of health is not occasioned by attachment to you… Come away, as soon as he knows there is nobody to care for his nonsense, he’ll be glad to lie still!” (184).…

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    true love really is. When young Cathy talks about being in love with Linton when she has only seen him two times before, Nelly states, “I might just as well talk of loving the miller who comes once a year to buy our corn. and both times together you have seen Linton hardly four hours in your life!”(Emily Bronte 234). Cathy stating that she loves Linton is ridiculous to Nelly. Nelly sees that with all this talk of love and that being the only thing on the other character’s minds, they are losing…

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    come home drunk and mistreat the people in her family. As with Hindley, he mistreats those in Wuthering Heights. Another instance of his aggressive behavior is when Hindley visits Nelly drunk one evening. Due to his state of drunkenness and inability to process and receive information, Hindley acts aggressively towards Nelly. As Berg writes, “the violence against the women in Wuthering Heights is frequently direct at the head, and two of the most vivid examples focus on the mouth: Hindley tries…

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    many ways through Heathcliff. He commits acts of vengeance because he is upset about Catherine leaving him for Edgar. He held Isabella captive after marrying her and treated her like crap. This created a hero-damsel in distress relationship between Nelly and Isabella. Along with his vindictive actions, Heathcliff’s presence is dark and gloomy, painting him as a villain. The Ghost of Catherine haunts not only Heathcliff, but his castle, Wuthering Heights. Overall Wuthering Heights is old and…

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    “Introduction to Beyond the Natural Body” written by Nelly Oudshoorn and “The egg and the Sperm” written by Emily both emphasize the idea of a woman’s body being examined through a social construct instead of a science classification. In the 1970’s, the female body was explained in terms of how the male body was perceived, for example: in texts written by the Ancient Greeks would refer the female genitals, the ovaries as the “female testicle”, as it used the male organs to lead every description…

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    In Literature, the authors tend to create symbolic figures that the reader often catches, but it represents something totally different for everyone. The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte can be characterized as Gothic Fiction with a hint of Romanticism, and the Victorian Ideal. The novel centers around a “gypsy” like kid named Heathcliff, who is adopted and raised in Wuthering Heights, where he endures pain through abuse, the ideas of revenge and casting it on others, and finds love but…

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    deeper the moody and mysterious Heatchliff in order to answer our question. In Nelly Dean's story, Mr. Earnshaw brings back a "dirty, ragged, black haired child" found abandoned. Although his origin remains mysterious, we can guess that it was not good. It also seems that he learned to manipulate the family early on. "Conscious he had only to speak and all the house would be obliged to bend to all his wishes" Nelly Dean says. We know now what sorts of behaviours are exhibited by…

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    him kissing her something to show he does. Many rappers do these songs because it’s a easy way to get major views if you’re really good at what you do. A few very famous rap artist that are good at singing songs like these are Nelly, Usher, Akon. there are many more but nelly and usher are two of the main guys and both are very well known everyone if not nearly everyone has heard of them. But the video would be very lovey and would mainly show them dancing and hanging and doing what usual…

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    His diabolical identity fuels his insane passions, which turn out to be monumentally destructive. One should note Heathcliff’s suffering once Catherine’s death is revealed. In describing the situation to Mr. Lockwood, Nelly refers to Heathcliff not as a human, but as an animal. His suffering is so violent that he has completely transformed, not just mentally, but physically: “lifting up his eyes, [he] howled, not like a man, but like a savage beast being goaded to death…

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    In Nelly Rosario’s book “Song of the Water Saints”, Rosario write about this five generation Dominican family starring Graciela and her mother Mai, following by her daughter Mercedes, then Mercedes’s daughter Amalfi and finally Lelia, Amalfi’s daughter. One sees similar conflicts with each mother-daughter duo. Therefore, showing how unstable Mother and Daughters relationships were due to different values in each generation valued. Rosario shows the strict relationship between Graciela and…

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