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    In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë‚ revenge is one of the most prominent themes within the novel. This theme plays into a recurring literary theme of the war between passion and responsibility‚ seen specifically within Brontë’s character Heathcliff. In this case‚ Heathcliff’s passion is his overwhelming desire for revenge on the Earnshaw and Linton families in order to gain what he believes is rightfully his. With his mind solely focused on seeking vengeance on those who have hurt him‚ Heathcliff

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    In Wuthering Heights‚ Emily Bronte uses Language and imagery to create a very stark contrast between Heathcliff‚ and Edgar Linton. This contrast is not only illustrated in how these characters act‚ but also in their appearance‚ usual setting and the language that is used to describe them. Emily Bronte first uses the raw basics of the characters Heathcliff and Edgar Linton to right away let us know that these

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    normal realm of things. This reflects her childhood in the book by stating the imaginary characters in Wuthering Heights that lived in Yorkshire‚ Haworth. Algernon Charles Swinhurne‚ “Emily Brontë‚” in the Athenaeum‚ No 2903‚ June 16‚ 1883. This book shows the Gothic Romance in Wuthering Heights the manor house appears to be dark but also a nice home. The description of the Wuthering Heights manor and the Thrushcross Grange manor seems to be a medieval style homes‚ with massive stoned walls.

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    The Importance of the Setting in Wuthering Heights There are numerous approaches to analyzing and understanding a novel‚ with the setting being one of utmost importance. It is one of the first aspects noted by readers because it can potentially increase their identification of specific motifs‚ and subsequently themes‚ through repetitively emphasizing the natural setting that penetrates conversations‚ incidences‚ thoughts‚ and behaviors. The author typically creates a setting that facilitates

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    Stylistic Features Wuthering Heights‚ the creation of Emily Jane Bronte‚ depicts not a fantasy realm or the depths of hell. The novel focuses on two main character’s battle with the restrictions of Victorian Society. Wuthering Heights is in the same ethical and moral tradition as the other great Victorian novels. Wuthering Heights was written and published ten years after Victoria’s accession and almost at the end of a decade in which fiction for the first time in its history

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    Wuthering Heights Character/Setting Comparison Essay Emily Bronte’s novel‚ Wuthering Heights‚ published in 1847‚ is one full of deep-seated passion and wicked duplicity that has caused it to remain among the many classics of British Literature. The unconventional interaction between characters teases the reader because the characters often do not arrive at the readers’ anticipated conclusion. This said‚ characters in Wuthering Heights often lead complicated relationships that inevitably lead

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    Wuthering Heights A Brief Summary Many people‚ generally those who have never read the book‚ consider Wuthering Heights to be a straightforward‚ if intense‚ love story — Romeo and Juliet on the Yorkshire Moors. But this is a mistake. Really the story is one of revenge. It follows the life of Heathcliff‚ a mysterious gypsy-like person‚ from childhood (about seven years old) to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff rises in his adopted family and then is reduced to the status of a servant‚

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    Tthe representation of home in Wuthering Heights. The ideology of the mid-nineteenth century limited the role of Victorian women to the domestic sphere. The Victorian construction of the domestic ideal saw the woman as devoted‚ busy and diligent mother‚ bearing‚ raising and educating her children. Anchored to the home and providing a secure‚ cosy space for a husband‚ as a haven from his public life in the outside world‚ the woman and home became the ‘expression of British Victorian morality..

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    Wuthering Heights deals with the very nature of controversy and paradox. The novel expresses deep criticisms of social conventions‚ and Brontë uses her characters in their incongruous surroundings to exemplify her concerns of the strict social code which she herself was expected to abide by‚ whilst remaining true to the principles she considered most important. Wuthering Heights challenges orthodoxy with heterodoxy‚ of which destruction and chaos triumph over social pretensions. The most undeniably

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    Review Sheet for Wuthering Heights 1. What techniques are used in the characterization of Heathcliff? Effects? Heathcliff is associated with evil and darkness from the beginning of the novel. "I felt his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows." (1) When Lockwood sees Heathcliff’s garden (perhaps a symbol for Heathcliff) "the earth was hard with a black frost…the air made me shiver through every limb." (6) When we see Heathcliff when he is first brought into the Earnshaw household

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