‘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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novels of Bronte’s era. Catherine is of a much higher social standing than Heathcliff‚ whose social standing was first elevated by his adoption by Catherine father‚ Mr Earnshaw‚ and then degraded after the death of Mr Earnshaw by Hindley. This aspect of the novel is relatively conventional. Social standing has always been a big issue for the couples of the fiction of that era. What made the situation between Catherine and Heathcliff different‚ however‚ is that they didn’t triumph over it as is the convention
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makes her appearance posthumously – in a page in her diary that falls into the hands of the new tenant Lockwood during the latter’s one-night stop-over at the house of Heathcliff. Thereafter‚ she appears as a ghost desperately trying to sneak into the house. It is clear that she has departed from the earth much earlier‚ leaving Heathcliff‚ her lover‚ pining for her company. Thus‚ begins her enigmatic entry into the plot. Nelly Dean becomes the narrator to describe the persona of Catherine to the readers
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tenderness is evident right from the start of the novel when Lockwood encounters the ghost of Catherine. After Heathcliff is knowledgeable of the fact that he may have encountered Catherine’s ghost “he got on to the bed‚ and wrenched open the lattice‚ bursting‚ as he pulled at it‚ into an uncontrollable passion of tears”. The readers immediately get a sense of some form of relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine as he bursts “into an uncontrollable passion of tears”. This sudden release of emotion allows
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Isabella married Healthclif‚ resulting in being shunned by her one and only brother‚ Edgar‚ as well as her family. The last example is Heathcliff treated poorly for his social standing‚ and background. When Catherine gets married to Edgar‚ Heathcliff feels betrayed. “…if Heathcliff and I married‚ we should beggers? Whereas if I marry Linton‚ I can aid Heathcliff to rise and place him out of my brother’s power”(Bronte 81). The quote proves that Catherine’s main intention was to gain wealth‚ and as
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Examine the Gothic Elements in the Novel Wuthering Heights‚ by Emily Brontë Gothic literature originated and was very strong at the time of the Romantic Writers Movement. They were very popular and had authors such as Horace Walpole who wrote “The Castle of Oranto”‚ and novels such as “Frankenstein” and “Dracula“. Gothic novels all had a similarity between each other. They always had typical Gothic features which alleviated the novel in one way or another. For example‚ most Gothic novels involved
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will be restored. This can be seen to be how Heathcliff is more of a modern but violent hero of the novel‚ because it is only through his subversion of traditional social norms that normality is eventually restored when he dies. The violent love of Heathcliff and Catherine reflects how extremes of emotion can heavily affect both of these character’s behaviours. This is because Catherine faces a battle against her body or nature in going with Heathcliff particularly when ‘Skulker has bitten her’ suggesting
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Gothic hero-villain‚ Heathcliff is a mysterious figure who destroys the beautiful woman he pursues and who usurps inheritances‚ and with typical Gothic excess he batters his head against a tree. There is the hint of necrophilia in Heathcliff’s viewings of Catherine’s corpse and his plans to be buried next to her and a hint of incest in their being raised as brother and sister or‚ as a few critics have suggested‚ in Heathcliff’s being Catherine’s illegitimate half-brother. Heathcliff as a Monster/Villain
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1847‚ is a story about two lovers‚ Catherine and Heathcliff. Emily Brontë‚ the author‚ portrays the relationship of these two as a conflict that will develop throughout the whole story. Step by step we see how their relationship develops in a positive or maybe a negative way. Heathcliff is an adopted child and the protagonist of the story as well. On the other hand‚ Catherine is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw and the stepsister of Heathcliff. These two characters deal with each other in the
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