Compare and Contrast: Mr. Darcy of Austen´s Pride and Prejudice and Heathcliff of Bronte´s Wuthering Heights

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austin and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte are books that have similarities and differences in two characters such as Mr. Heathcliff and Mr. Darcy. Mr. Darcy and Mr. Heathcliff are characters who are in love with a women, and who keep their emotions bottles up inside themselves. Mr. Darcy was wealthy and Mr. Heathcliff had to work for wealth. Both characters also have brothers who despise them for who they are. In both books the similarities and differences are between two characters that experience the same life in two different settings.

Mr. Heathcliff and Mr. Darcy both have a love life in the books that they are in. the difference is that Mr. Heathcliff is in love with the sister he grew up with. Mr. Darcy fell in love with a women he met through a friend. The similarity is that both Heathcliff and Darcy are so madly in with the women that they keep there emotions inside them until they find out if the women loves them back. Overall both Mr. Darcy and Mr. Heathcliff are in love with the women they met but only Mr. Darcy married the women he loved, Mr. Heathcliff never did.

In Pride and Prejudice, Mr. Darcy was born into wealth. In Wuthering Heights, Mr. Heathcliff was adopted into wealth but had to work for it in the end. The only similarity here is that both Mr. Darcy and Mr. Heathcliff had rich fathers who died later in life. The difference is, Mr. Heathcliff was born a gypsy and was on the streets until Mr. Earnshaw took him in as a son. Mr. Darcy on the other hand was born as a rich boy who was never on the streets. Mr. Darcy and Mr. Heathcliff were in a wealthy family but Mr. Heathcliff was not wealthy for long until later on.

Mr. Darcy no matter what was accepted into his family but as ...

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...hip with Catherine and Mr. Darcy did not have a close relationship with his friend Bingley. Overall Mr. Darcy and Mr. Heathcliff had best friends in their lives but through a different way.

Pride and prejudice by Jane Austin and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte have similarities and differences through the two characters Mr. Darcy and Mr. Heathcliff. Mr. Darcy and Mr. Heathcliff have similarities through their love of a women, brothers, being accepted into family, working to be wealthy and keeping their emotions bottled up. Both characters also have differences which are their love life, best friends, being despised by their brothers and the work of becoming wealthy. Even though there are many differences and similarities to the characters in the book they are in, Mr. Darcy and Mr. Heathcliff are just two men who experience the same situations in a different way.