How Does Heathcliff Present Edgar In Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bronte, is a book about a passionate and destroying love between the two main characters,(possibly change this sentence) Catherine, a strong and beautiful young lady and Heathcliff, an adopted dark and handsome young man. Though they are meant to be together, their love was not an ordinary love; while both chose to make their love for each other more difficult than it needed to be, it is filled with wealth/status, revenge, and ghosts. Heathcliff, portrayed as a wild yet innocent and vulnerable at first, transformed into a handsome young man, who was filled with darkness, revenge, and manipulation due to the marriage of Catherine and Edgar, in order to elevate his status.(Revise this se9ntence) The culture
surroundings of social status shape moral traits in Heathcliff’s character as to before and after the marriage of Catherine and Edgar. Specifically, the culture surroundings of social status illuminates the work as a whole by showing that social status is more important than love. In this society, the only opportunity for women to elevate their social status is by marrying into a higher class. Before the marriage of Catherine and Edgar, the cultural surroundings of social status did not affect Heathcliff’s moral traits, for he was unaware of the importance of social class.
As a child, Heathcliff was very different from the normal child of that society. (possibly take out because it is not necessary or add something related to prompt)Heathcliff was described as dark skinned, dirty, and unsophisticated. His only true friend was Catherine, who he cared about very much, for she was the only person who viewed him as normal. Though he was viewed as possibly even a lower class then Catherine, this did not bother either one of them, since they both were naive and young. Before introduced to the upper class, (Isabella and Edgar) they were both innocent and in love, whether they knew it or not. However, once Catherine met Isabella and Edgar, she realized love was not everything. In a conversation with Nelly, Catherine mentioned that she wished to marry Edgar, for she could not marry Heathcliff because he was a step down in class. Heathcliff overheard this part of the conversation, and decided to leave Wuthering Heights, before he could hear the rest of the conversation in which Catherine admitted she loved Heathcliff more than Edgar. After his rejection from Catherine’s love, Heathcliff understood that status was more important than love, and this was when he plotted to gain his power of status and inheritance changing his personality into poor moral traits. (doesn’t make sense,
refase) Due to the marriage of Catherine and Edgar, Heathcliff’s personality changed from innocent and uneducated to conniving and dangerous, as he demonstrates the understanding that social status is more important than love. The cultural surroundings of social status shape poor moral traits through the event in which Heathcliff married Isabella. Once Heathcliff returned to the moors, (shown as a handsome, strong young man) in order to gain control and full power, Heathcliff married Isabella to elevate his social status. Heathcliff’s wild and untamed nature resulted in his manipulative, resentful behavior of having a poor moral trait. These moral traits lead to him controlling his child, Linton, to guarantee his full inheritance on both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange by forcing Linton to marry Cathy. His moral character not only desired full power and the highest class by manipulation and knowledge, he also treated Isabella with cruelty, for his true love was Catherine and Isabella was only a status to him. The turning point at which Heathcliff determined that social status was more important than love, was the turning point at which cultural surroundings shape Heathcliff’s moral traits. (describe the moral traits more and organize each sentence with the moral traits so that it makes sense) Throughout the story, Heathcliff was shown as both untamed and innocent, loving only Catherine, and turning his love into revenge.(change this somehow) Once Heathcliff was introduced to status, his personality traits affect his moral traits and turn him into a manipulative, treacherous man. Social status, a cultural surrounding that shapes Heathcliff’s moral traits, was shown throughout the story as more important than love. In a woman's case at the time, the only option for social status was to marry into it; however, a man had many options, and when Heathcliff came back, he had a high social status, but it was not good enough for him. Heathcliff wanted full power, so his poor moral trait turned him into a horrible man. (connect last sentence back to prompt and include theme)