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    Wuthering Heights is not a religious novel in the sense that it supports a particular religion (Christianity)‚ or a particular branch of Christianity (Protestantism)‚ a particular Protestant denomination (Church of England). Rather‚ religion in this novel takes the form of the awareness of or conviction of the existence of a spirit-afterlife. An overwhelming sense of the presence of a larger reality moved Rudolph Otto to call Wuthering Heights a supreme example of "the daemonic" in literature

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    The juxtaposition of sharply disparate elements‚ i.e. "clashing contrasts‚" can give rise to violence. Such is certainly true of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. In fact‚ the entire novel could be analyzed using comparison and contrast. Examples of the "clashing contrasts" are found in the violence between Heathcliff and Edgar‚ Heathcliff and Linton‚ Heathcliff and Hindley‚ Catherine and Isabella‚ and Heathcliff and Isabella. Other contrasts which serve to explicate the plot and relationships are

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    • “The grass is beating its head distractedly.”- Mentally disturbed people‚ reflects the speaker’s state of mind. The grasses and her state of mind have become one. Although her psychology is very present in it‚ it’s still a landscape poem that brings this environment to vital life in a really amazing way • The speaker is the one who appears vulnerable‚ nature is her attacker. She refers to them in a “grandmotherly disguise‚” this is a reference to the fairy-tale ‘Little Red Riding Hood’ Plath is

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    Heathcliff and the creature: two outcast of the same kind Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein are two novels with more in common with each other than it can be seen at first glance. Written during the Victorian Era by female authors‚ they were rather scandalous for the time they were first published. Wuthering Heights’ passionate and egoistical characters shocked the society of the time: such abusive characters and improper female lead had never been seen before. Frankenstein’s dark themes and the

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    howled in agony for numerous days‚ lamenting her departure. The importance canines had in her life parallels the significance of canines in her book. Throughout the novel Wuthering Heights‚ dogs function as symbols that reveal a character’s future. On the narrator Lockwood’s second visit to the dreary and cryptic Wuthering Heights‚ he is faced with the nonattendance of his landlord‚ Heathcliff‚ at his manor. While returning in dismay to his residency at the Grange‚ “two hairy monsters flew at [his]

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    Wuthering Heights “She flung the tea back‚ spoon and all‚ and resumed her chair in a pet; her forehead corrugated‚ and her red under lip pushed out‚ like a child’s ready to cry.” P. 12 This passage has sensory details describing young Mrs. Heathcliff. “Chair in a pet” is referred to as a sulky mood. The author‚ Emily Bronte‚ used diction that included metaphors and similes to describe details in the story. While referring to characters and moods in this story‚ Bronte used quite a bit of comparison

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    Wuthering Heights Chapter 6: Character analysis: Nelly Dean: Nelly Dean is a servant in the Wuthering Heights‚ who originally grew up there. Also she is the narrator for this particular chapter. Nelly can be seen as quietly observant. Unlike Mr. Lockwood who makes assumptions and is quick to blurt out the first words that come to his mind‚ Nelly pays attention and then may‚ make her judgments. This can be seen in the first and second paragraphs where she talks recounts her first encounter

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    English: The Dominant Language In the essay‚ “How to Tame a wild Tongue‚” Gloria Anzaldua the author‚ states the importance of maintaining one’s native tongue. She believes that people should speak whenever or however they please given that it does not harm anyone. Anzaldua does not want to escape her Mexican ways such as speaking Spanish. It is a vital part of her life because she communicates with her family members speaking a variety of Spanish dialects. Since she has no other way to show

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    are three different kinds of mental processes that result in three kinds of personalities. These are Id‚ Ego and Superego. These three parts in Freud’s model of the psyche help explain mental maturity and development. In Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights‚ Catherine symbolizes the impressionable ego and was pulled between Heathcliff‚ which represents the id‚ and Edgar‚ which represents superego. Her struggle between these two opposing forces and inability to choose between them is what ultimately

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    There are several opposing characters in Emily Bronte’s "Wuthering Heights". The best example is that of Heathcliff and Edgar. Their childhood‚ appearances‚ and relationship with Catherine are complete opposites. The two men had very different childhoods. Heathcliff was born into squalor and wandered the streets of Liverpool until Mr. Earnshaw took him home to his family. He was dirty and his clothes were ragged. "He seemed a sullen‚ patient child‚ hardened perhaps to ill-treatment." As a farmhand

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