between characters to explain the events of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Ellen Dean creates the perfect narrator due to her being a made in both houses. “Because you’re not fit to go there. All sinners are miserable in heaven.” (page 78) Nelly had to put up with the late Mrs. Catherine almost all her life, all of it wasn’t pleasant, and being the…
FEMINIST ANALYSIS OF “TIP DRILL” Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. popularly known in the American music industry as Nelly came out with “Tip Drill” on his 2003 remix album Da Dertty Versions, he featured the St. Lunatics on this song. The expression tip drill is a slang vulgar expression, describing a well-known ugly girl with a nice body, hefty breast and backside. The lyrics of “Tip Drill” describe a girl who can only attract the opposite sex with her body and not her face, she is cheap and ready to…
Heathcliff personifies this perfectly as his insanity grows more and more desperate throughout the years deprived of emotional connection to anyone without Catherine. Nelly reflects later to Lockwood that Heathcliff’s sleep patterns were considerably altered and he withdrew into himself, no longer seeming to have the strength or will to lash out at those around him (Bronte Ch…
attention is her most prominent narcissistic character trait. Pairing with her narcissistic qualities and actions, Catherine exhibits her melodramatic trait to gain more attention and care. Catherine physically attacked Nelly Dean and Edgar Linton; she pinched and slapped Nelly and slapped Edgar. Catherine slaps Edgar because she is upset at everyone: “…and Edgar thoughtlessly laid hold of her hands to deliver him. In an instant one was wrung free, and the astonished young man felt it applied…
Wuthering Heights begins from the point of view of Lockwood, who is a man from the city who is running away after accidentally leading a woman. He rents a house at Wuthering Heights, which is located in an English moor and is constantly battered by stormy and violent weather. Lockwood is greeted by Heathcliff, who he judgmentally describes as a wannabe gentlemen. Heathcliff is entertained after Lockwood encounters his savage dogs. Lockwood later returns to Wuthering Heights during a blizzard and…
Heathcliff also keeps Hareton uneducated. Nelly asks Hareton if Heathcliff teaches him to read and write, and Harteton responds with, ‘No, I was told the curate should have his - teeth dashed down his – throat, if he stepped over the threshold – Heathcliff had promised that!’ (110). Hindley abuses…
In Wuthering Heights, some of the characters speak exclusively in the local dialect (the case of Joseph), other use it only to a certain extent and in certain situations (Mr Earnshaw, Hindley, Nelly), while there are other characters whose speech develops from a West Yorkshire dialect to Standard English when their social status changes (the case of Heathcliff and Hareton). Emily Brontë “gives her characters distinctive ways of speaking, according to their station in life and according to…
within a story. The first narrator we are introduced to is Lockwood who presents a ‘mysterious’ family that he meets on the moors. This encounter leads him to seek answers and finds them in the inner story told by a maid for the Earnshaw family – Nelly Dean. Nelly ‘waits not further invitation to her story’ and begins to tell Lockwood whilst trying to be an objective eyewitness to the tale. However, it becomes clear to the reader that because of the combination of narrators, we are distanced…
The romantic area in the 1800th century has had a major impact on the love stories of today and the way the modern love stories are told. One of the books that have had a huge impact on today's romantic literature and the way we look at love, nature, and beauty is the Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Hence, this essay will be about the forbidden love between the two protagonists Heathcliff and Catherine in the Wuthering Heights in order to highlight the developments within their relationship…
Freud’s notion of the uncanny is undoubtedly evident in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. The romance between Catherine and Heathcliff can most certainly be described as uncanny as they have an unquestionable love for one another yet they betray each other’s souls by choosing to marry others. However, both characters selfishly continue their relationship, ignoring their marriages which is sufficient evidence to suggest how much of an inseparable bond they share. The appearance of Catherine as a…