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    social aspects in the novel‚ nevertheless the indications of Victorian society’s problems are significant. By provinding characters such as Heathcliff‚ Lockwood‚ and Catherine‚ she communicates various aspects of homelessness. The life of the Ernshaw family changes for good the night an orphan child arrives at Wuthering Heights. The boy is being named Heathcliff‚ “the name thus signifies his acceptance but also his difference and implied inferiority; in lacking the family name‚ he lacks full membership

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    Thomas utilizes words like “lightning” (5)‚ “rage” (3)‚ “grieved” (11)‚ “blaze” (14)‚ and fierce (16) to express his urgency and his emotions that arise over his father’s condition. In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte‚ the character Heathcliff resembles

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    A Powerful Relationship that is left untamed will cause unnecessary wars. Like in the story The Tragedy of Macbeth‚ the leading lady‚ Lady Macbeth wants power. She begins to pull strings to ensure that’s what she wanted to take place. Hindley in the story Wuthering Heights‚ who sought power to maintain Wuthering Heights. Some Find it difficult to believe that power could do so much damage. Lady Macbeth’s ambition caused so much death‚ even though she never killed anyone physically. Her desire to

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    themes of economic and social tension‚ discrimination‚ and death. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff were intimate friends since childhood until she becomes injured at Thrushcross Grange and needs to stay for months to recuperate. Upon her return‚ Heathcliff can no longer recognize Catherine as she is more refined and will soon marry Edgar Linton. After Catherine dies‚ leaving behind an infant daughter‚ Heathcliff continues to retaliate for his mistreatment and loss of his beloved. In the end‚ Catherine’s

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    Upon responding to Heathcliff’s irrational fasting and happiness‚ Nelly Dean admonishes “you have lived a selfish and unchristian life; and probably hardly had a bible in your hands during that period” (page 313). She then goes on to say that Heathcliff is unfit for heaven and he should not be so happy and ready for death because in no way has he managed to earn salvation. This shows that Nelly Dean believes that God’s way to salvation is the only way and that is the path she has chosen to follow

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    a year after her death under the pseudonym Ellis Bell‚ it is perhaps one of the most passionately original novels in the English language. The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing‚ passionate‚ yet thwarted love between dark‚ brooding Heathcliff and hot-blooded Catherine Earnshaw and how their unresolved passion eventually destroyed them and the people around them. Now considered a classic of English literature‚ ‘Wuthering Heights’ was met with mixed reviews by critics when it was first

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    In the short story “A&P” by John Updike‚ portrays the main character -Sammy- as an antihero‚ rather than a traditional hero. Sammy wanted the girls to acknowledge him. He decides to quit “hoping they’ll stop and watch [him]” like in movies where the main protagonist always gets his love interest. He was expecting that they would notice him‚ but in the end‚ they didn’t even glance his way and scurried off as quickly as they could. Sammy left with “a clean exit” and he went looking for his “girls‚

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    of a violent storm and is forced to shelter for the night in a peculiar chamber which has been barren for many years. He then discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before- the intense passion and longing‚ between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. William Wyler’s 1939 film adaptation of the text‚ presents the novel through tension-evoking cinematography and carefully selected music to convey the Gothic atmosphere. This‚ along with the film being set at a more ‘alluring

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    ‘Othello’‚ Emily Bronte in ‘Wuthering Heights’ and Robert Browning in his Dramatic Monologues. Shakespeare explores the theme of alienation through a character considered an outsider by the society in which he lives in. Similarly Emily Bronte explores Heathcliff and the obstacles he faces at Wuthering Heights. Browning’s Dramatic Monologues illustrate the minds of psychotic lovers who are all possessive and delusional. In all the three texts the outsiders are rejected and are to an extent responsible for

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    Wuthering Heights‚ presents the two internal conflicts with the characters Heathcliff‚ Edgar‚ Catherine‚ Hareton‚ and Cathy. Emily stages the extremes of each conflict with Heathcliff as the major daemonic character‚ and Edgar as the apollonian. In the end‚ one person cannot entail all of one of these conflicts and survive happily; a person needs balance like Hareton and Cathy. The apollonian Edgar and the daemonic Heathcliff create emotional conflict for the torn Catherine in Wuthering Heights‚ while

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