between Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange‚ Heathcliff and Catherine‚ and the Earnshaw and the Linton families. Each seemingly small detail is essential to understanding the complexity of both the setting and the characters. One of the many images begins with the two main settings of the book: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Wuthering Heights is first depicted as a haven to young Heathcliff‚ as Mr. Earnshaw adopts him and treats Heathcliff as his own son. However‚ after Mr. Earnshaw’s
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landlord) in Wuthering Heights. There‚ he also meets Hareton Earnshaw‚ Cathy Linton‚ Joseph and Zillah. The strange behaviour of the inhabitants and his nightmare‚ make him feel curiosity about them. Back in Thrushcross Grange‚ he asks his servant‚ Nelly‚ to tell the story of Heathcliff’s life. From chapter 4 (Vol.1) to chapter 17 (Vol.2)‚ Nelly narrates the story of the first generation – Catherine Earnshaw‚ her brother Hindley and her sister-in-law Isabella – This story ends in
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the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low‚ I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him” (pg. 73) Catherine says she would not even think of marrying Edgar if Hindley had not degraded Heathcliff‚ making him a common servant. If Cathy really loves Heathcliff none of this should matter. In the end Catherine is deciding to marry Edgar‚ this completely tears Heathcliff apart to the point where he runs away from Wuthering
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though some hint of savagery remains in his eyes. He announces that Hindley has invited him to stay at Wuthering Heights. This surprises both Catherine and Nelly‚ but Heathcliff tells Catherine that when he sought Nelly at Wuthering Heights earlier that day‚ he came across Hindley in a card game with his rough friends. Heathcliff joined them in the gambling‚ and‚ because his reckless bids seemed to bespeak a great wealth‚ Hindley excitedly invited him to return. Catherine and Isabella begin to visit
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Love? It is a complex subject that cannot be defined as a single definition without branching onto various aspects of its attraction. In fact‚ the relationship of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff Earnshaw‚ developed into a miscellaneous affair of unrequited love and sealed desire. In the excerpt‚ the passage can be informed by the beginning of conformity over love‚ a distance between the young couple‚ and the start of a social barrier. In Wuthering Heights‚ young Catherine was influenced by the
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ten convey crises of conscience as the turning point of the novel: the point in the story which a critical decision changes the plot and/or characters. Two of the major characters‚ Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff‚ encounter a crisis of conscience which are significant to the plot. Catherine Earnshaw suffers a major crisis of conscience between two men. Her heart tells her to do one thing‚ but her mind tells her another. At the start of chapter nine‚ Catherine accepts marriage to Edgar Linton
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Catherine’s love and the anti-hero of the story. The book essentially follows his story from first appearance at Wuthering Heights to his death there. He is badly treated by Hindley and his love for Catherine becomes all-enveloping. But she prefers to marry Edgar for his position and breedind‚ and he vows vegeance on Hindley‚ Edgar and their children. Heathcliff marries Isabella for the sole purpose of revenge‚ as he aims to control both the Wuthering Heights and the Thrushcross Grange when Edgar
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reader. Arguably‚ Heathcliff is not controlling‚ violent‚ and abusive by nature. Rather‚ experience makes him so. Unwelcome into the Earnshaw home as an orphan‚ throughout his childhood he is considered an outcast because of his darker skin tone and strange speech. Heathcliff “[breeds] bad feeling in the house” (37)‚ especially with regard to Hindley‚ the Earnshaws’ son‚ who often beats him and ridicules him. Thus Heathcliff’s repeated exposure to abuse‚ mockery‚ and violence in his early years instills
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of Catherine and Heathcliff‚ often to the exclusion of every other theme–this despite the fact that other kinds of love are presented and that Catherine dies half way through the novel. The loves of the second generation‚ the love of Frances and Hindley‚ and the "susceptible heart" of Lockwood receive scant attention from such readers. But is love the central issue in this novel? Is its motive force perhaps economic? The desire for wealth does motivate Catherine’s marriage‚ which results in Heathcliff’s
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out of a real chance at life like Catherine and Hindley had. “My old enemies have not beaten me; now would be the precise time to revenge myself on their representatives: I could do it; and none could hinder me.” He felt that he could vicariously live his life through Linton if he planned every aspect. Heathcliff’s motives for revenge are justifiable because of his traumatic childhood. He went from everything to nothing when Mr. Earnshaw died. Hindley felt replaced when his father came home with Heathcliff
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