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    love stories between Heathcliff and Catherine‚ and Catherine‚ Linton and Harleton Earnshaw. One can consider the romantic love which Catherine and Heathcliff feel for each other but‚ because of Catherine’s family and because of their different social statuses‚ they can never belong to each other. Bronte creates their love as a gothic love story. Unable to have Catherine’s love‚ Heathcliff takes revenge on the next generation‚ Catherine‚ Linton and Hareton Earnshaw. Heathcliff hates Cathy‚ the daughter

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    Honors 11 27 March 2010 When True Love Transforms Into Obsession and Lust “He’ll love and hate‚ equally under cover‚ and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved and hated again...” (Brontë‚ 2). This quote describes the actions taken by Heathcliff throughout the novel‚ while he undergoes a transformation from a true and romantic lover to a cruel and uncaring hater. Although he may appear to be selfless and simply a man deeply in love‚ his actions involving jealousy‚ hatred‚ abuse‚ and vengeance

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    more significantly seen through the actions of our main protagonist‚ Heathcliff. Maybe one the darkest character in all of English literature‚ Heathcliff is indisputably brutal‚ cruel‚ malicious and outright ruthless. From the onset of his arrival at Wuthering Heights he begins to show spitefulness as he is seen blackmailing his older brother‚ Hindley‚ into giving him his desired horse. Also the description given of Heathcliff as a child describes him with dark features which could indicate what

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    isolated manor in thinly populated Yorkshire. Shortly after arriving at the Grange‚ he pays a visit to his landlord‚ Mr Heathcliff‚ a surly‚ dark man living in a manor called Wuthering Heights. During the visit‚ Heathcliff seems not to trust Lockwood‚ and leaves him alone in a room with a group of snarling dogs. Lockwood is saved from the hounds by a ruddy-cheeked housekeeper. When Heathcliff returns‚ Lockwood is angry‚ but eventually warms toward his taciturn host‚ and—though he hardly feels that he has

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    himself to Heathcliff in his hospitality and in his capacity within the subject of relationships. Lockwood also indirectly contrasts the environment’s suitability to the two characters. 4. Lockwood has come to visit Wuthering Heights to introduce himself as a tenant to Heathcliff. 5. Heathcliff is a gruff‚ unsociable‚ dark man. Chapter 2 6. On his return to Wuthering Heights‚ Lockwood blunders in his assumption that the young woman (the “missis”) is Heathcliff’s wife. Heathcliff corrects

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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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    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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    year after it came out. It is the story of Heathcliff‚ a dark outsider who falls in love with the feisty Catherine and rages and revenges against every obstacle that prevents him from being with her. Wuthering Heights is violent even by today’s standards and is not only full of references to demons‚ imps of Satan‚ and ghouls‚ but also depicts some pretty disturbing scenes of domestic violence. The supernatural plays a large part: ghosts appear‚ and Heathcliff‚ characterized more than once as a vampire

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