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    by a small group of people who use the false reality to oppress that population.ii In the case of Wuthering Heights‚ Heathcliff is at once the deceiver and the deceived. His hegemony puts him in the seat of power‚ but in using his power‚ he 2 deceives himself‚ not others. He convinces himself that vengeance will bring him satisfaction; vengeance is the ideology by which Heathcliff fools himself into believing he can find contentment in life. Such is not the case‚ as he admits later—after causing

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    Lady Macbeth wants sovereignty for her benefits to use against Macbeth. Also the mastermind behind all evil that is done in this novel. Catherine has a passionate and destructive love towards her significant lover Heathcliff. The love Catherine shows to her significant lover Heathcliff is very controlling as well.

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    believe that Hindley is a character that throughout the novel is in many ways an outsider. When Heathcliff joins his family‚ him and Cathy become extremely close which therefore leaves Hindley somewhat alone. On top of this‚ it is obvious that their father favours Heathcliff which further isolates him and makes him extremely jealous. You cannot deny the fact that Hindley is absolutely vile towards Heathcliff‚ but I would suggest that this behaviour is further fuelled by the fact that Hindley is quite

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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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    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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