Isabella Linton Essays

  • Isabella Linton Quotes

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    wrath. Isabella Linton, one of Heathcliff’s victims, falls in love with Heathcliff and decides to get married without her brother, Linton, acceptance. After their marriage, Heathcliff is abused Isabella roughly which causes her to be forced to leave him. He has no remorse or feels pity toward Isabella who escapes from his cruel treatment to protect herself and her pregnancy. She confesses in her letters to Ellen that Heathcliff has inhumane nature, and he mistreats her so badly. Isabella states

  • Social And Economic Class

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    affects the behavior and actions of each character. In the novel, Heathcliff is an orphan with no title, no lands and is shamed for being in the lower class. Heathcliff is brutalized and mistreated by those who are wealthy, such as Catherine, the lintons and Hindley. But as time goes, he seeks his revenge for those who have betrayed him. In the novel, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, portrays Heathcliff’s misdeeds and actions as a reflection to the social and economic society. Heathcliff

  • Love Quotes From Wuthering Heights

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    He is so overcome with passion and an uncontrollable desire of extreme possession that he trespasses the limits of life, death and religion. He wants to be with Catherine in any possible way and he embraces her corpse. Nelly has been raised as a good Christian and she listens to Heathcliff deeply surprised and ashamed for what he has done: “You were very wicked, Mr Heathcliff!' I exclaimed; 'were you not ashamed to disturb the dead?” (264) Heathcliff does not obey any rule or moral value accepted

  • How Does Bronte Present Love In Wuthering Heights

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    to court her, Edgar Linton. Bronte illustrates this struggle on page 78 where Catherine cries, “I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if 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; and that, not because he’s handsome Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am.” Catherine ends up choosing to marry Edgar Linton because it would be

  • Gone Girl Analytical Essay

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    The Destructiveness of One’s Struggle with Dignity from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Characters from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, share similar traits and demonstrate the concept of dignity of a person. Freudian and Jungian psychoanalytic theories lead the audience to a profound analysis of the characters in both novels. According to Sigmund Freud, the key to a healthy personality is a balance between the id, the ego, and the

  • How Does Wuthering Heights Change Throughout The Novel

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    Six weeks after their elopement, Heathcliff and Isabella returned to Wuthering Heights. They pulled up to the house in the evening after a long day of traveling. Joseph was standing outside the house with a candle waiting to greet the newlyweds. He took the two horses, and led them into the stables; he later reappeared to lock the outer gate. Heathcliff stayed to speak to him, leaving Isabella alone to inspect the place. Although this was not her first time at the Heights, it was her first time entering

  • Isabella And Heathcliff Foils

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    Honors English 10 Isabella Linton and Catherine Earnshaw are character foils of one another. While both are romantically involved with Mr. Heathcliff, Catherine’s personality is nearly the exact opposite of Isabella’s. Isabella is meek, delicate, and stubborn, while Catherine is loud, confident, and wild. Catherine feels fiery passion while Isabella pines slowly. but both characters are dismissive of warnings and feel they can make their own decisions. Catherine and Isabella are women of high social

  • How Does Heathcliff Obtain Justice

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    Once they were in the Grange were the Lintons lived, in the house they were two kids, Edgar and Isabella. Heathcliff and Catherine were watching how the Lintons were living, but when they tried to escaped from the grange, a dog from the Grange bite catherine in the leg, Heathcliff was the only one that came back to the Heights. When Catherine was injured, on of the people that live in the Grange find Catherine and was surprised at seeing her there. When the Lintons find out of this they take care of

  • How Does Catherine Earnshaw Use Imagery In Wuthering Heights

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    Catherine Earnshaw returns to Wuthering Heights after her stay at Thrushcross Grange. Page 47. “The mistress visited her often, in the interval, and commenced her plan of reform by trying to raise her self-respect with fine clothes and flattery, which she took readily; so that, instead of a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person, with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered

  • Heathcliff Isolation Quotes

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    with the Lintons refusing to let him enter their house. The Lintons ensure that Hindley locks Heathcliff away inside his own

  • How Does Heathcliff Change In Wuthering Heights

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    aunt died and she had to move back home forever (Encyclopedia of World Biography). Just towards the end of the book when Catherine died it brought everyone together back the Wuthering Heights. Like it brought little Cathy in the world and brought Linton, Heathcliff's unknown son to him. In conclusion, the way these symptoms happened in Emily’s life are just like the same symptoms that could go with the ones in the

  • Rhetorical Devices In Wuthering Heights

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    Yorkshire, United Kingdom, she wrote poems and novels under her and her sisters: Charlotte and Anne Bronte’s pseudonym “Ellis Bell”. In her only published novel, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte authored the narration of two families: Earnshaws and Linton to cognizance their decisions and their motives at Thrushcross Grange. Through Mr. Lockwood and Nelly Dean’s narration, as well as Catherine Earnshaw’s diary entries, she composed a plot of two falling deeply in love but never marrying. Although the

  • Indentured Servitude Quotes

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    Term Paper Although Heathcliff was a slave or “indentured servant”, he rose out of slavery and became one of the rags to riches stories. Indentured servitude starts either as a person is born into it by a slave parent or was captured and sold by the British. In Victorian England, indentured servitude basically means slavery unless you are bought out of it as Heathcliff was. “He was a dark-skinned child.” It is likely he was from a British-colonized area where he was taken from and brought into

  • How Does Heathcliff A Corrupt Society

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    Earnshaw tries his best to get him to assimilate to this new community. His future with Catherine is strongly affected, as his competition for her is interrupted by the appealing appearance of Edgar Linton, a well-bred man who is seen as an ideal lover for Catherine. Because he is different from the rest of society, and because he comes from a lower social class, Heathcliff is isolated from the rest of society. Lockwood, one of the narrators of the

  • Is Heathcliff A Byronic Hero?

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    provokes him so much that Heathcliff strikes him. “ The fellow approached and gave the chair on which Linton rested a push. He’d better have kept his distance: my master quickly sprang erect, and struck him full on the throat a blow that would have levelled a slighter man.” (Pg.112) This act of violence is explains the notion that he has conflicting emotions. Another thing is when Heathcliff and Isabella are together at Wuthering Heights he tells her that she will be Edgar’s proxy in suffering, because

  • A Soldier's Fugue Summary

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    In 10/Fugue of Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Elliot, A Soldier's Fugue, Hudes conveys the disconnect between Elliot and his family members during his desperate time of need for their help (Hudes). Throughout the scene, Elliot is gravely injured and falls apart. By using short, simple sentences, Hudes expresses the urgency of Elliot’s situation. Grandpop, Ginny, and Pop take turn stating these different sentences, almost like the waves of an ocean. Pop says, “The boy was standing guard;” Grandpop says, “He

  • Heathcliff Vs Nelly Dean

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    natures. His undying love for Catherine causes intolerable pain spanning from his youth until the day he dies. Catherine’s obsession with social status and her superficial nature causes her to be in a limbo between choosing to love Heathcliff or Edgar Linton. One day in the midst of an emotional conversation between Nelly and Catherine, Heathcliff hears a snippet of what they are talking about. Catherine hisses, “It would degrade me to love Heathcliff...so he shall never know how I love him”, and Heathcliff

  • What Is Heathcliff's Transformation Into A Monster

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    Heathcliff’s transformation into a monster is inevitable, only if he is brave enough to break away from the past. While Catherine and Heathcliff argue, Catherine calls Heathcliff an “ungrateful brute” (116) for wanting revenge, to which he replies less vehemently with, “I seek no revenge on you. That’s not the plan. The tyrant grinds down his slaves, and they don’t turn against him” (176-177). Though Catherine deserves punishment, Heathcliff cannot bring himself to punish her or turn against her

  • How Does Heathcliff Change In Wuthering Heights

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    clarified even as a yearning for vengeance against Hindley, Catherine, Edgar, and so on. As he himself brings up, his misuse of Isabella is simply twisted, as he entertains himself by perceiving the amount of misuse she can take what's more, still return recoiling for additional. The creator does likewise to the perusers to us that Heathcliff does to Isabella, testing to see how often the peruser can be stunned by Heathcliff's needless brutality and still, masochistically, demand considering

  • Heathcliff Isolation

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    In Wuthering Heights, isolation is seen since the estate is in the middle of nowhere, when Heathcliff is isolated from others when Catherine and Hindley’s father dies, and isolation causes the characters to become self destructive and push others away. The Wuthering Heights estate is isolated from other towns. Since it is isolated from any others, it creates an unwelcoming atmosphere to the estate and makes visitors feel uneasy. Heathcliff is isolated from the day he is brought home from the streets