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    Wuthering Heights Analysis

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    out with Heathcliff on the side of the road as a orphan. The Earnshaws adopted him but the other kids got very jealous of the attention he was getting from the parents. After a little bit‚ Catherine starts to bond with heathcliff and they grow close together. In the middle‚ Catherine decides to marry Edgar for his money and leave Heathcliff heartbroken. With Heatcliff crushed‚ he moves away and gets marry to Isabella for revenge. Poor Isabella doesn’t realize how much a monster Heathcliff is into

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    Grange. The lead character‚ Heathcliff‚ is a huge part in making the novel seem cruel. Heathcliff symbolizes evil while Emily Bronte portrays him as a jealous‚ controlling‚ and revengeful man‚ who through his actions ruins the lives of numerous characters. One may believe that Heathcliff is very jealous of Catherine and Edgar’s marriage. An example to support this is when Heathcliff hears Catherine agree to marry Edgar Linton “it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now” (Bronte 114) he leaves

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    Topic: Heathcliffs whole aim in the novel is to gain revenge. Does he succeed? Discuss Why does he want revenge? Heathcliff through the book Heathcliff’s Revenge Introduction Define revenge Conclusion Body Con’s Pro’s The people he takes revenge Did he succeed? Kills Hindley Catherine Hareton raised by Nelly Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights he gambles Topic: Heathcliffs whole aim in the novel is to gain revenge

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    Violence and Aggression

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    readers who were read this novel were shocked by the Violence. In this paper‚ I will discuss the theme of the violence in chapter seventeen of this classic novel. In contrast to chapter sixteen all sympathy that the readers gained for Heathcliff is now lost when Heathcliff beats Hindley close to death. During the beating‚ Hindley is the victim of his own past sins and Heathcliff’s displaced anger and aggression about Catherine’s death. Although as Isabella said to Hindley before the beating took place

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    retribution. One character in particular‚ Heathcliff‚ stands apart as a conduit for both of these‚ es-pecially his sins. His past crimes‚ both worldly and metaphysical‚ coincide with his punishments. Heathcliff‚ to some‚ began life as a crime. His foster brother Hindley shunned him as a reject from society while viewing Heathcliff’s very existence a grievous crime‚ particularly because Mr. Earnshaw’s love and affection were displaced towards Heathcliff instead of himself. Far later in the

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    juxtaposition of Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights‚ initially personified by Lockwood and Heathcliff‚ `a dark skinned gypsy’‚ respectively. Lockwood reckoned that he had acted so coldly to the requited affections of the `real goddess’ that was his love‚ she `persuaded her mamma to decamp’. However‚ he discovers that relative to Heathcliff‚ he finds himself extremely sociable‚ where Heathcliff treats his visitor with the minimum of friendliness and warmth. Following his failure at love‚ Lockwood

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    novel. The most stark example of these mirrored pairs is that between Heathcliff and Hareton. Heathcliff’s evolution is one of extreme ups and downs. The novel begins with him being taken in as a street orphan by Mr. Earnshaw and in effect becoming his son. He lives a life of prominence in the household of Wuthering Heights and falls in love with Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter Catherine. Soon after the death of Mr. Earnshaw‚ Heathcliff is forced to work as a servant under Hindley. To compound the pain he

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    placed on the struggles and sufferings the characters have to deal with in their lives. As the protagonists of the novel‚ Heathcliff and Cathy offer an element of debate in whether death does provide release from these struggles and sufferings. Heathcliff appears to undergo the most suffering out of all the characters in the novel. From the beginning of Nelly’s story‚ Heathcliff has faced problem after problem. He is found on the streets of Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw‚ and then brought to Wuthering Heights

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    Love in Wuthering Heights

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    soul of another‚ where life itself wouldn’t be worth living without this person. What would end a love like that‚ or is that love forever? In Emily Brontë’s novel‚ Wuthering Heights‚ she portrays love as never ending. In the book Catherine and Heathcliff love is eternal‚ not even ended by death itself. She shows this throughout the novel‚ by showing time and death couldn’t dull their love‚ how they see the other person as themselves‚ and how their love for each other was so deep and true. The conflict

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    Is Heathcliff a Monster?

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    Throughout Wuthering Heights‚ it can be seen that Heathcliff is a social outcast‚ not fitting in with anything the other inhabitants of Wuthering Heights do. Any reader of the book produces completely different views on Heathcliff which represents even more so that he is misunderstood by many people. There are different characteristics that critics have labelled Heathcliff‚ some include a social misfit‚ a devil from hell‚ or something completely different by labelling him a romantic or gothic hero

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