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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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    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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    English language. Just before she dies‚ Catherine Earnshaw gives birth to a beautiful baby girl named Cathy. After Catherine married Edgar‚ heathcliff becomes jealous and marries Edgar’s sister‚ Isabella. Isabella then gives birth to Heathcliff’s son Linton. Wuthering Heights‚ by Wmily Bronte‚ is a novel full of contrast between Catherine and Cathy and Heathcliff and Linton. While Cathy is growing up‚ the reader begins t see the contrast between cathy and her mother. Catherine is a typical Earnshaw

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    particularly scandalous in the creation her central character‚ the brutal Heathcliff. Viewed now some century and a half later‚ the work is truly seen for what it is‚ a work genius that continues to attract. “With the modern understanding of the way childhood affects one’s whole perception of life and the world”‚ it would be surface levelled to label Heathcliff “evil”. Established from a purely Marxist-oriented interpretation of Heathcliff‚ the audience allows his misgivings due to the rough hand he was

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    novel written by the Victorian writer‚ Emily Bronte besides her poems. It is one of the most passionate and heartfelt novels. It is also‚ considered highly original and deeply tragic. This novel is about the relation between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff‚ the orphan boy brought to Wuthering Heights‚ and his tyrannical revenge excited on everybody for the rage and humiliation he suffers throughout his life. The novel is based on a group of flashbacks which are organized chronologically and told

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    has its romantic color‚ no matter how gloomy or tragic it is‚ is an affectionate and beautiful canto. Then we can see something special from the novel. The narrative tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate‚ yet thwarted love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw‚ and how this unresolved passion eventually destroys both themselves and many around them. First‚ it is a love tragedy from which Emily presented a life of a deformed society and draws the outline of humanity that was warped

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    is not consistent with their overall perception‚ however despite their moral ambiguity‚ subjectively the characters are never seen in a different light. In the Wuthering heights manor‚ two cousins‚ Cathy and Hareton are living with their uncle‚ Heathcliff‚ and their relationship with one another follows a pattern of fights and reconciliation. Cathy’s arrogant and spoiled nature is shown through her tumultuous relationship with Hareton‚ however despite this moral ambiguity‚ Cathy is perceived as a

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    raised and people have regrets. In Emily Brontë’s novel‚ Wuthering Heights‚ the bitter man‚ Mr. Heathcliff loses a bit of his sanity after the passing of his lover‚ Catherine. The hauntings of her spirit and the dreams that Mr. Heathcliff experiences proves readers that love/loss can destroy a person. The scene that captures the essence of the theme is in chapter 29 when Brontë evokes sympathy for Heathcliff after he explains how he has been tormented for 18 years after the passing of Catherine’s

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    superior to women by natural design. We see that in Wuthering Heights‚ Heathcliff appears to impose dominance over many of the characters in the novel as the story progresses. His quest for vengeance and his inability to deal with the death of Catherine eventually reveal his true nature as a maudlin sociopath In chapter 10‚ upon Heathcliff’s return to Wuthering Heights‚ Nelly recounts when she beheld "the transformation of Heathcliff" that "A half-civilized ferocity lurked yet in [his] depressed brows

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    nature of the multiple narrators means that a sense of otherness and strangeness is preserved. For example Nelly’s narrative is so dramatised that we could argue that much of it is in the form of a tertiary narration‚ e.g. the conversation involving Heathcliff‚ Catherine and Edgar on Heathcliff’s return is recorded in the words of the participants. The effect of this is to present the story directly to the reader so that our perception is constantly changing as if we were witnessing a drama. The difficulty

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