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    nurture-unbridled love causing blind rage and an almost unquenchable desire for revenge. Heathcliff is blindly in love with Catherine and is consumed with the fires of hatred and malice when he is unable to marry Catherine. His only driving force is that of revenge. Bronte’s diction in Wuthering Heights shows the undying‚ yet impossible love‚ between Heathcliff and Catherine. Catherine’s desire to live a genteel life with money and privilege makes their marriage impossible in her eyes. Claiming that

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    Nelly‚ I am Heathcliff." In this quote‚ Catherine was well aware of her love for Heathcliff claiming that they both have the same souls. She had no income or property of her own. Her physical comfort depends on the will of her father and brother and the most crucial decision of her life‚ to marry Edgar Linton‚ is determined by the fact that if she were to marry Heathcliff‚ they would become ’beggars’. In my opinion‚ this is a case of forbidden love. Catherine and Heathcliff cannot be together as their

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    4-8 1. Who is Nelly Dean? 2. What do the gifts that Hindley and Catherine ask their father to bring them reveal about their characters? 3. What are Heathcliff’s origins? 4. Why does Hindley despise Heathcliff? 5. Characterize Catherine. 6. Compare and contrast Catherine’s and Heathcliff’s reactions to the Lintons at Thrushcross Grange. 7. Why did Edgar get applesauce dumped on him? 8. Catherine is pained by Hindley’s punishment of Heathcliff‚ yet she continues to

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    negative treatment because of jealousy towards the affection he received from both Catherine and Mr. Earnshall. Notably‚ Hindley was responsible for molding Heathcliff the way he wanted to. Henceforth‚ Heathcliff endured the torment because of his beloved Catherine; she made it bearable for him to withstand the wrath of Hindley and Joseph once Mr. Earnshall passed away. And in an instant‚ it all changed; Catherine was no longer his. This "betrayal" was the iceberg that sunk the ship on Heathcliff’s

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    Neither Isabella nor Catherine are forced into marrying‚ Heathcliff or Linton‚ respectively. Although they make their own choices‚ they realize‚ very soon‚ that they have entered a place where they will never be happy. For Isabella‚ it is Heathcliff’s harsh treatment towards her. Whereas for Catherine‚ it is the self realization ‚ that her love for Heathcliff‚ is stronger‚ than her love for Linton‚ and that she can not live without Heathcliff Isabella doesn’t adjust in Wuthering Heights after

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    revenge/justice to Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff was most hated by Hindley throughout his entire childhood and even some adulthood. Although the majority of Heathcliff’s hatred went to Hindley‚ Heathcliff still developed hatred towards Edgar for having Catherine choose him over himself. For Heathcliff‚ justice was showing off his success to the people that wished he never had any. He wanted to come back to Wuthering Heights a changed man to show Hindley that his cruelty towards Heathcliff was not successful

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    Immediately‚ the movie skips right to the action‚ about twenty minutes into the movie Heathcliff is already trying to get his revenge and get Linton and young Catherine to marry. An effective adaption would be the special effect where it shows the first Catherine as a skeleton in the beginning of the movie but through Heathcliff’s eyes‚ he saw Catherine as if she were just buried. Some effective adaptations are the choice of characters‚ I think the character for Heathcliff can really portray his intense

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    Question: How‚ and to what effects‚ does Bronte use different settings in Wuthering Heights? In the book Wuthering Heights‚ the author‚ Bronte‚ has created three different main settings. They are Wuthering Heights‚ Thrushcross Grange and the moors. The whole story mainly took place in these three places. In Wuthering Heights‚ the atmosphere is always dark and gloomy. Also‚ it is quite uncivilised. On the other hand‚ Thrushcross Grange is bright and welcoming‚ and is full of peace and calmness

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    Attribute: | How the character shows it: | Textual Support: | Conflicting emotions by polar tendencies or moodiness | Heathcliff shows this when he was excited for Catherine to come home‚ then he was upset | “With that he dashed head foremost out of the room‚ amid the merriment of the master and mistress‚ and to the serious disturbance of Catherine; who could not comprehend how her remarks should have produced such an exhibition of bad temper.” (pg. 49) | Self-destructive | Heathcliff would take the pain

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    symbolised by his degrading treatment by all those who are considered as “normal”. The “unreclaimed creature” is immediately dehumanised through his descriptions as “it”‚ and is immediately victimised by all the other characters within the stories. Catherine “spits” at him and Hindley often strikes him. But I think it is Heathcliff’s “dark” skin tone arguably scares his companions into acting in such a way. Like other dark figures such as Othello in Shakespeares “Othello” Heathcliff posses the capability

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