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    Wuthering Heights‚ revenge is the most visible theme‚ especially when it comes to Heathcliff. Revenge is a strong and powerful emotion that can quickly change someone’s life. It can take over and lead a person to do things they never would have before. There are countless reasons why one might wish to inflict revenge on others. Heathcliff had a pretty big incentive for revenge on more than one character in the novel. Heathcliff receives very little to no affection and love from those around him as a child

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    Catherine plays a prominent role throughout "Wuthering Heights." For the most part‚ it is her love of Heathcliff which represents the crutch of the human struggle encountered by Catherine‚ as well as other characters throughout the story -- but especially Catherine. Curiously‚ relationships of that period were more often than not governed by social convention. The relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff is an exception to this...while‚ ultimately‚ one Thrushcroff Grange attracts Catherine‚ and thusly

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    “Wuthering Heights” Catherine and Heathcliff think they have found true love‚ but other may conclude they just have a crude mix of affection‚ lust‚ infatuation and need. Cathy shows very well that she does not truly love Heathcliff. Love is when two people would do anything to be together no matter what size‚ color‚ social status or imperfection. “I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low‚ I shouldn’t have

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    until neither of the families can get rid of him. Hindley begins to feel a form of rivalry with Heathcliff right from the start. He does not understand why his father has gone through the trouble of finding a son out on the streets when he had one at home waiting for him. Hindley is marked with the aura that his father does not love him and that he is not good enough for his father ever since Heathcliff showed up. Hindley begins to make Heathcliff’s life miserable‚ as to mark his territory and belittle

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    streets. Mr. Earnshaw names him Heathcliff and begins to raise him like his own son. This causes tension in the family. Mr. Earnshaw begins to favor the stranger over his own son. This causes Hindley to become jealous of Heathcliff. As Hindley ’s hate for Heathcliff grew stronger‚ Catherine ’s love for him grew even stronger. This causes life at Wuthering Heights to be unbearable. The family turns against Hindley and sends him away to school and Heathcliff takes the place as the son of the

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    o’clock in the morning to take him to his father. Because his mother never mentioned his father‚ Linton is surprised and confused. Linton is full of questions about his father‚ questions Nelly answers reluctantly. They get off to a rough start‚ with Heathcliff making comments about his son’s appearance. He says that the only reason he will put up with his son is that he is the heir to everything – (including Thrushcross Grange.) As Nelly leaves the house‚ she hears Linton crying out‚ begging not to be

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    firstly the way Heathcliff gets exploited by Hindley in similar how Victor abandons his ‘son’. They both had emotional experiences that triggered their desire for revenge. In Wuthering heights when Catherine declares she is going to get married to Edgar‚ Heathcliff’s plan for vengeance on Edgar and Catherine is to marry Isabella‚ ‘I love him more than ever you loved Edgar. ‘This clearly suggests Isabella is ignorant of love and of men because she has never experienced either. Heathcliff wants to hurt

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    Wuthering Heights 1. What techniques are used in the characterization of Heathcliff? Effects? Heathcliff is associated with evil and darkness from the beginning of the novel. "I felt his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows." (1) When Lockwood sees Heathcliff’s garden (perhaps a symbol for Heathcliff) "the earth was hard with a black frost…the air made me shiver through every limb." (6) When we see Heathcliff when he is first brought into the Earnshaw household‚ he is immediately

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    characters are at the mercy of forces they cannot control. At the beginning of the novel‚ Lockwood thinks he can travel through the storm‚ and he ends up failing. Wind and rain are present when Mr. Earnshaw dies‚ when Heathcliff departs from Wuthering Heights‚ and when Heathcliff dies→ At the

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    In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights‚ the romance between Heathcliff and Catherine drives the story and causes untold pain and suffering for everyone in the story. Heathcliff’s motivations as a character are often unclear and left up for interpretation‚ especially after his beloved Catherine’s death. Towards the end of the novel there is a scene that is used to great success to showcase Heathcliff’s mental state before his death. However‚ it does much more than that. Through closely examining Bronte’s

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