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    Catherine Earnshaw Catherine Earnshaw is the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw and his wife; Catherine falls powerfully in love with Heathcliff‚ the orphan Mr. Earnshaw brings home from Liverpool. She was born at Wuthering Heights and was raised with her brother Hindley. Catherine loves Heathcliff so intensely that she claims they are the same person but does not marry him because Hindley has degraded him after their father’s death so her desire for social advancement motivates her to marry Edgar Linton

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    Emily Bronte uses Language and imagery to create a very stark contrast between Heathcliff‚ and Edgar Linton. This contrast is not only illustrated in how these characters act‚ but also in their appearance‚ usual setting and the language that is used to describe them. Emily Bronte first uses the raw basics of the characters Heathcliff and Edgar Linton to right away let us know that these characters are polar opposites

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    One of the most significant relationships is the one of Heathcliff and Edgar Linton where one of the main themes of revenge and hatred is caused by the never ending conflict between these two main characters in the novel. Heathcliff and Edgar Linton are main characters in the novel of Wuthering Heights where they were of the very few who were able to see through both generations. The conflict started when Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff were caught Spying in the Linton’s family home. After this

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    therefore his inability to objectively narrate; whereas Lewis’ omniscient “salacious and blasphemous elements of his narrative” (Nick Groom‚ 2016) in third person allows The Monk to be unbiased in its depiction of Father Ambrosio’s actions as the antihero. However‚ despite their differences in narrative perceptions‚ both Lewis and Burgess choose to structure their novels into three parts. In creating such structure of the three parts in A Clockwork Orange and The Monk‚ both Lewis and Burgess have

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    Catherine has for Heathcliff and the one she feels for Edgar is that Heathcliff is part of her nature‚ he is like hersoul mate. While on the other hand Edgar is only part of her superficial love‚ and because she is attracted to Edgar and his love for her. It is the spiritual love rather than a physical love that brings Heathcliff and Catherine together.  Revenge is the most dominant theme in the book‚ although at the end Heathcliff abandons his plan for revenge. For Heathcliff revenge started when

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    victim. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte‚ Heathcliff: an outsider brought into the wealthy Earnshaw family‚ Hindley: the eldest Earnshaw child with a strong dislike for Heathcliff‚ and Hareton: the orphaned child Heathcliff takes in to raise‚ are victims‚ yet they evolve to perpetuate the abuse they suffered. Being able to be or become a victim or victimizer show the complexity of these characters. Emily Bronte manipulates readers to pity Heathcliff‚ Hindley‚ and Hareton‚ in spite of the hideous

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    ghost‚ causing sane people to go insane‚ causing them to drown in their own past. Heathcliff and Catherine in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte‚ and Macbeth in The Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare died as a result of not being able to deal with their haunting past. Heathcliff‚ from Wuthering Heights‚ didn’t have an easy past. He’s an orphan that was brought to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. Although Heathcliff was accepted by Mr. Earnshaw and Catherine‚ Hindley always disliked him. After

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    Heathcliff‚ the main character in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte‚ has no heart. He is evil to the core - so savage that his lone purpose is to ruin others. Yet at the very moment at which the reader would be expected to feel the most antipathy towards the brute -after he has destroyed his wife‚ after he has degraded the life of a potentially great man‚ and after he has watched the death of his son occur with no care nor concern‚ the reader finds himself feeling strangely sympathetic towards this

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    meaningless work. Heathcliff‚ the hero in the novel‚ has the character filled with the spirit of wildness and violence‚ which let people to feel repressed at any moment with him. However‚ one would also be moved by his gentleness and kindness when he saw his love towards the heroine Catherine. Throughout Wuthering Heights two distinct yet‚ related obsessions drive Heathcliff’s character: his desire for Catherine’s love and his need for revenge. As a literary critic‚ Heathcliff could be identified

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    renowned reputation due to her romantic novel Wuthering Heights. Her profound style depicted within her only written masterpiece is considered something of a prodigy. The ability to describe the passionate and immortal love between the characters of Heathcliff and Catherine is made convincing by her incredible storytelling. Despite the negative reception of the novel Wuthering Heights‚ Emily Bronte has continued to impress readers with its passionate poetry and tragic vision that has transformed the genre

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