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    of a reader for their cruel actions are Heathcliff‚ Hindley and Catherine. Inside of this novel‚ the cruel actions of the characters have driven the plot of the set story. For example‚ Heathcliff‚ the occupant at Wuthering Heights‚ has evolved into quite a cruel man. From a poor gypsy soul rose a cruel‚ arrogant young man with no one to condemn but himself. He continued to compete with Edgar‚ trying to fight back for the love that seemed to vanish. Heathcliff perceived Catherine’s choice of Edgar over

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    Earnshaw’s living at Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is an orphan who Mr. Earnshaw decides to bring home during a trip to Liverpool. Heathcliff and Catherine grew an unconditional love for each other during their childhood. However‚ as they grow older their relationship becomes complex due to Catherine’s choice of marrying another man‚ Edgar Linton. The aim of this essay is to analyse the relationship between the main characters Catherine Earnshaw‚ Heathcliff and Edgar Linton using Sigmund Freud’s

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    main theme throughout "Wuthering Heights" is love‚ it is equally based on revenge. Examples of that revenge are mainly between the characters Heathcliff and Hindley. For example‚ when Hindley decided to make Heathcliff’s life a living hell it caused Heathcliff to plan revenge on Hindley. Additionally‚ when Hindley became so fed up‚ he wanted to murder Heathcliff and also wanted his soul and blood. An example of revenge in “Wuthering Heights” was also showcased on page 18 where it said‚ "He has been

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    Violence 1: Mr. Lockwood has a bad introduction to Wuthering Heights when the dogs attack him. Heathcliff warns him that they are not pets‚ but when Heathcliff leaves the room‚ Mr. Lockwood makes faces at them. When the dogs attack‚ Heathcliff does not hurry to help him. It is the maid who finally comes to his aid. Mr. Lockwood is not used to such treatment‚ and he tells Heathcliff that if he’d been bitten‚ he would have responded by hitting the dog. After just a few moments in the house‚ Mr. Lockwood

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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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    their false conventions. This idea brings me back to Dickens’s Great Expectation when Pip visited Miss.Havisham’s house and was ever taking by the false expectation of upper class. Her first rejection to her nature was the minute she laughed at Heathcliff instead of defending him: "Frightful thing! Put him in the cellar‚ papa. He exactly like the fortune-teller that stole my tame pheasant. Isn’t Edgar" Cathy came around; she heard the last speech and laughed" (WH P39) Bit by bit we see how the nurture

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    This quotation ‚ from Pauline Nestor‚ while being close to an accurate description of Jane and Rochester’s relationship in Jane Eyre‚ does not go far in explaining the complicated and destructive relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Their attachment might better be characterised by the word ‘obsession’ as none of the pure‚ selfless emotions associated with the literary ideal of true love seem to manifest in their relationship. Neither does the novel appear to “celebrate”

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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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    Analyse Bronte’s Presentation of Love in the Novel “Wuthering Heights” Focusing Specifically on Chapters One to Sixteen The gothic novel “Wuthering Heights” narrates the story of love and passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Love is one of the main themes that the novel basis’s around‚ and how this opposed passion between the two main characters ultimately demolishes themselves and all that are around them. Here we are shown the extremities of the

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    In any good novel‚ and even in life‚ people can be influenced in both positive and negative ways. In the three novels that we have read so far‚ Great Expectations‚ Lés Misérables‚ and Wuthering Heights‚ the main characters are faced with negative challenges and influences. Positive guides and influences also affect the characters in these books; the positive guides usually end up winning in the end. In Great Expectations‚ the main character of the story was Pip. Some of the negative influences

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