Wuthering Heights takes place in England in the 17 and 1800s. It tells of the dangers of revenge and the treatment of others through the life of Heathcliff and the Earnshaw family. Heathcliff was first brought to the Wuthering Heights household as a young boy by Mr. Earnshaw. When Mr. Earnshaw 's children, Catherine and Linton, see Heathcliff, they call him a“gipsy brat” and refuse to sleep in the same bed with him. Mrs. Earnshaw treated Heatcliff no differently. She was “ready to fling it out the doors” and went on to call him a “gipsy brat”. Mr. Earnshaw was the only one to treat Heathcliff without prejudice and showed a favorable amount of attention to him. The result of Mr. Earnshaw’s love for Heathcliff, created Hindley 's hatred …show more content…
When Heathcliff learns of Isabella’s feelings for him deploys a plan to get revenge on Edgar for marrying Catherine. He begins to feign attraction to Isabella and convinces her that he loves her. One day he surprises Isabella and kisses her out in the garden. Catherine sees and yells at Heathcliff for betraying her and soon becomes ill. Three nights later Heathcliff tricks Isabella into running away with him to get married. As a result of their marriage Linton has cut all ties off with her. Not to long after, Isabella discovers that Heathcliff used her as a tool of his revenge and only married her because she was the heir to the Grange. Six weeks after she runs away she becomes angry with her ill treatment and sends a letter to Nelly. She recounts her several months of horrible treatment from her husband and the rest of the members of Wuthering Heights and begs for Nelly to visit. She describes Hareton, Hindley, and Joseph (the cook) as “rude and uncaring”. She learns to despise her husband and says that he is taking his aggression towards Edgar, who he believes is at fault for Catherine’s sickness, out on her. Angry and alone Isabella begins to taunt him that he is at fault for Catherine 's illness not Edgar. Isabella with the help of Nelly runs away from Heathcliff to London and lets Heathcliff’s guilt of Catherine 's sickness
The amount of anger and frustration expressed to keep their marriage together is emphasized by the rhetorical device. It also shows that hatred is expressed in a family when one is lost for patience, becoming a problem and resolution. In the metaphor, “He’s not a rough diamond-a pearl-containing oyster of rustic: he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man”(Bronte 101), Heathcliff is described by Nelly Dean to be powerful and potentially hurtful to Isabella. Dean protects Isabella by warning her at the cost of dehumanizing Heathcliff. The metaphor is used to describe and illustrate an image for readers and Isabella.
Mr Earnshaw refers to Heathcliff as “It” this could become very degrading for Heathcliff as he wasn’t treated like a human, in contrast to this, this was on the first night of him being in the Earnshaw residence which means that they hadn’t got to know him yet. Heathcliff’s relationship with Mr Earnshaw would of been one of the things that made his childhood more bearable as we are told that Heathcliff became Mr Earnshaw favourite child, we are told by Nelly Dean that she considered the relationship sinister as he become more loved by Mr Earnshaw than Hindley. Moreover we are also told that Mrs Earnshaw was wary of the child and didn’t want to keep him, this could of made Heathcliff childhood bitter by knowing that not everyone wanted him there. His relationship with Hindley Earnshaw may have made his childhood very bitter as he was physically and verbally abused by him. We are told that after a few days, “Miss Cathy and he were now very thick; but Hindley hated him” this show us that Hindley started hating him from the start, this would later continue into adulthood.
Elizabeth survives the scarlet fever plague that takes Caroline. She writes to Victor while at school and tells him what is going on with the family. She is the source for information for Victor when he is away at the university. Her letters are important in the
As a child, she lived a humble upbringing alongside her nine other siblings, and she participated in normal childhood acts. She was almost mischievous in her youth, but with Austen's positive descriptions, it is clear that she was still pleasant and warmhearted. Catherine Moreland's simple lifestyle and pleasant personality is revealed through Austen's utilization of direct and indirect characterization and point of view. Although Catherine Moreland's childhood was humble, plain, and no where near destined for greatness, Austen introduces a likable, relatable, and unexpected heroine in the opening passages of Northanger
Throughout the novel Isabelle deals with abuse from her husband, being bullied has a child and being imprisoned in Wuthering Heights which leads to her depression. In a article written about abuse the other said “In almost every case of significant adult depression, some form of abuse was experienced, either physical, sexual, emotional or, often, a combination.” (McGrath). Most of Isabella 's abuse was done threw the element of fear, “He snatched an dinner knife from the table, and flung it at my head” (Bronte 174) during this part of Isabella’s life she is “happily” married to Heathcliff, but Heathcliff is only married to Isabella for her wealth and that 's why he abuses her constantly.
As a Gothic and villain character, Heathcliff continues his way in destroying people who he does not care and deserve his 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.
In Charlotte Bronte’s novel “Jane Eyre” Edward Fairfax Rochester plays a contributing role in Janes development and growth as a character and human being in the Victorian time period. Not only does he play a large role in her independency, but in her emotional and spiritual growth as well. She grows around him whether she likes it or not. Due to Edwards manipulative and seductive nature, jane has to grow and develop in a way that has her frequently questioning her own ideals, whether that be spiritually or morally, and strengthening her independence by constantly refusing her feelings for him and adapting to punishing situations. Edward also opens Janes eyes to a world that is bigger than she realized due to his company at the house, wealth, and opportunities at the favorable Thornfeild manor at which she was employed by him.
Early on in the novel, Heathcliff and Catherine snuck over to Thrushcross Grange when they were children to spy on the Linton children. They saw the two fighting over a dog and nearly pulling it apart. This foreshadows that later in the story, there will be a tension between Edgar and Isabella when Isabella goes against Edgar's wishes and marries Heathcliff. In Wuthering Heights, how a visitor will be greeted by the person they are visiting can often be foreshadowed by how the visitor is greeted by the dogs guarding the property (Rena-Dozier 770). When Heathcliff goes to visit Catherine after many years, the dog at Thrushcross Grange greets Heathcliff by wagging its tail at him rather than barking.
As an adult, Jane asserts her independence by rejecting unequal marriage. When Jane finds out that the man she was to marry, Mr. Rochester, was already wed, she ran away. Mr. Rochester pleaded passionately for her to stay, revealing his unfortunate history and even threatening to use physical force to restrain Jane. Both tactics failed since, as Jane puts it, her conscience personified strangles her passion for Rochester. Being a mistress to Rochester in addition to being financially and socially inferior to him prompts her to leave him.
Firstly the obsessive love between Catherine and Heathcliff. Catherine claims that her love for Heathcliff “resembles the eternal rocks beneath –a source of little visible delight, but necessary” (73). She tells her housekeeper “Nelly, I am Heathcliff –he’s always, always in my
Throughout the novel, Nelly acts as the voice of reason to many of her mistresses, although sometimes their actions have consequences. For example, Nelly encourages Isabella to renounce her love for Heathcliff. Nelly knows that Edgar would never approve of him as her husband, but Isabella disregards her advice and seals her elopement with Heathcliff anyway. Their marriage provoked the tension that had remained after Catherine 's decision to elope with Edgar rather than Heathcliff. Brontë scholars believe that Nelly is one of the only characters in Wurthering Heights that has the power to "shape the plot" by the fact that she has been a support to a handful of the characters throughout the novel.
Isabella Linton falls in love with Heathcliff, but she is so cruelly abused by him that she has to leave him. This fact presents a social taboo for the period, in which the novel was written and can be seen in this excerpt from her epistolary confession to Ellen Dean “I assure you, a tiger, or a venomous serpent could not rouse terror in me equal to that which he wakens... I do hate him- I am wretched - I have been a fool” (Bronte 233). Heathcliff does not feel any remorse or shame for Isabella’s fate, not even for their son Linton whom he neglects to seek medical care for when he has fulfilled his purpose in taking over the Heathcliff Thrushcross Grange.
After adopting Heathcliff, Mr. Earnshaw finds that he actually loves Heathcliff much more than his own son, Hindley. For this reason,
Wuthering Heights is a novel by Emily Brontë, published in 1847. The book's core theme is the destructive effect that jealousy and vengefulness have, both on the jealous or vengeful individuals and on their communities. Although Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as a classic of English literature, it received mixed reviews when first published, and was considered controversial because its depiction of mental and physical cruelty was unusually stark, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day, including religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality. Wuthering Heights, which has long, been one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature. In my essay I will write about
The intense conflicts which are characteristics of its artistic structure are create in the terms of social conflicts. The roots and causes of these conflicts are in the pressures of the society with which the novel was published. Wuthering Heights was published two times in 1837 and 1848, times of great change due to the Industrial Revolution. Thus, it reflects in some way the class struggle. Heathcliff did create a classless society, he made everyone his servants.