Wuthering Heights: In Wuthering Heights, the author—Emily Bronte—takes the readers to the Wuthering Heights mansion where they soon meet Heathcliff. It is in this story the reader is able to connect with Heathcliff and be pulled along with him through the events that he faces along the way. This is, again, because of Bronte’s use of descriptive wording when it comes to the main character and the land that surrounds him—the moors. The wording is so descriptive that one may feel like they are watching a reel of scenes before their eyes. Being able to be a part of and connect to the story and the main character, Heathcliff is something that happens easily when authors describe events and characters well enough—just as Bronte does in Wuthering …show more content…
In fact, Heathcliff’s character can be compared to that of the mansion and the land that surrounds it—wild and stubborn. This is because Heathcliff finds any chance to act out and be mischievous. For instance, Heathcliff convinced Nelly Dean and Cathy to walk back to Wuthering Heights. Once there, Heathcliff imprisons both ladies, hoping to unite Cathy and Linton, and force the two to get married so that he can make his claim on Thrushcross Grange. After doing so, he decides to spread a rumor in Gimmerton that Nelly and Cathy, “sunk in the Blackhorse marsh” (Bronte 212). This quote can explain the place in which Heathcliff finds himself, figuratively speaking. He wants Thrushcross Grange, but knows that if Cathy does not get married it will not be his so he decides to kidnap the two in hopes that he will get what he wants. So, he is “sunk” (Bronte 212) and is digging the hole deeper as he goes by being …show more content…
After going for a walk, he realizes (as he tells Nelly) that the night before he was on the verge of approaching hell, and now he feels as if he is closer to heaven (Bronte 255). The next day he awakes and refuses to eat at all, and even sees an apparition of Catherine (which confused and scared Nelly). Heathcliff even explains that he wants to be left alone, at which time, he locks himself in his room. He also explains to Nelly that, they should obey his wishes to be buried with Catherine, as that is what he wants (Bronte 255). The very next day, he locks himself in his room again, refusing to see a doctor and is not seen until the day that he passes. Nelly finds Heathcliff dead the next morning explaining that, “his face and throat were washed with rain” (Bronte 256). This quote is symbolic to the character of Heathcliff because it can explain the point that Heathcliff was at during the end of his life. His main goal has been to change Catherine back into the devious girl that loved him for who he was, but sadly, he did not get that chance. So, he was ready to pass away to be with her so that they could spend their afterlives together. The rain was able to wash him of anger, malice, and frustration, helping him harness inner peace, happiness and even excitement knowing that he would be reunited with his true love
In "Wuthering Heights," we see tragedies follow one by one, most of which are focused around Heathcliff, the antihero of the novel. After the troubled childhood Heathcliff goes through, he becomes embittered towards the world and loses interest in everything but Catherine Earnshaw –his childhood sweetheart whom he had instantly fallen in love with.—and revenge upon anyone who had tried to keep them apart.
Heathcliff cried vehemently, "I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" Emily Brontë distorts many common elements in Wuthering Heights to enhance the quality of her book. One of the distortions is Heathcliff's undying love for Catherine Earnshaw. Also, Brontë perverts the vindictive hatred that fills and runs Heathcliff's life after he loses Catherine. Finally, she prolongs death, making it even more distressing and insufferable.
Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, set in the countryside of England’s 1700’s, features a character named Heathcliff, who is brought into the Earnshaw family as a young boy and quickly falls into a passionate, blinding romance with the Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine. However, Heathcliff is soon crushed by this affection when his beloved chooses the company of another man rather than his own. For the remainder of the novel he exudes a harsh, aversive attitude that remains perduring until his demise that is induced by the loss of his soulmate, and in turn the bereavement of the person to whom the entirety of his being and his very own self were bound.
Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff’s dwelling place whom he shared with his son Linton and Hareton, underwent the most significant change since the Earnshaw’s resided there. Wuthering, by definition, is a wild wind blowing strongly with a roaring sound. This shows the readers that the residents of each property also reflect the character’s behavior and actions that dramatically affects the appearance of the properties and a change in weather. But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. Wuthering Height...
In comparison, Catherine has not only grown up with Heathcliff, allowing her access to a myriad of interactions which Brontë’s audience wasn’t previously privy to, but she has developed her understanding of societal norms alongside him. Thus, the unabashed sympathy Cathy initially feels for her “poor Heathcliff” provides a new narrative altogether—a narrative that focuses on the individual, closely following Heathcliff’s transmogrification from a “starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb [child] in the streets of Liverpool” to a man who Lockwood interprets as filled with cruelty and “savage vehemence” (22, 37, 27). In addition, Catherine’s possible retelling of Wuthering Heights through her diaries eventually allows for Heathcliff’s cruelty to be put into conversation with his upbringing as a non-white subject in a wholly white
He experiences "the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting this own revenge...he would have tried to remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps" when he accidentally saves his enemy's child (Bronte 74). Heathcliff immediately regrets the circumstances in which he finds himself, to the point in which he would be willing to "remedy the mistake by smashing Hareton's skull on the steps" if it were darker in the house. Bronte utilizes Heathcliff's savage impulse to murder an innocent child to reveal how the desire for revenge has consumed his thoughts and actions, even those of common human decency. When Heathcliff returns to Thrushcross Grange to see Catherine one last time, he plans to finally "settle [his] score with Hindley," and to "[do] execution on [himself]" to avoid punishment (Bronte 96). Heathcliff's willingness to commit suicide after finally getting his revenge indicates how he views his life as complete and his purpose fulfilled by satiating his one and only wish. He views his body as only necessary to complete his mission and afterwards discardable, illustrating Heathcliff's complete physical infatuation with retaliation. Bronte emphasizes here how Heathcliff loses his purpose in life while he becomes tangled up in a plot for revenge. The intense drive to succeed can render people as
There is a man frantically pacing through the nearby cemetery and he is weeping and wailing for the love of his life who has recently passed on. His desperate pleas for her to come back to him resonate through the night. He is grieving deeply and is angry at her and himself for her death. This is not unlike what Heathcliff experienced when his beloved Catherine died. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Heathcliff is not only the Byronic hero, but he also helps to portray many characteristics of gothic literature.
In the novel Wuthering Heights, author Emily Brontë portrays the morally ambiguous character of Heathcliff through his neglected upbringing, cruel motives, and vengeful actions.
The calamities between the Lintons and the Earnshaws provide the readers with the bleak and austere aura of the Gothic era and, thus, explain the various themes expressed in the novel Wuthering Heights written by Emily Brontë. The two families are similar by their aristocracy, but the conflicts between the characters provide insight into many underlying meanings throughout the novel. Heathcliff’s arrival at Wuthering Heights carries on the plot of the story, allowing the readers to interpret the themes about social class, love, and suffering.
Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a novel about lives that cross paths and are intertwined with one another. Healthcliff, an orphan, is taken in by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights. Mr. Earnshaw has two children named Catherine and Hindley. Jealousy between Hindley and Healthcliff was always a problem. Catherine loves Healthcliff, but Hindley hates the stranger for stealing his fathers affection away. Catherine meets Edgar Linton, a young gentleman who lives at Thrushcross Grange. Despite being in love with Healthcliff she marries Edgar elevating her social standing. The characters in this novel are commingled in their relationships with Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.
Heathcliff is a character who was abused in his childhood by Catherine’s brother, Hindley, because of his heritage as a “gypsy”, and Hindley was jealous of the love that Heathcliff got from Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley’s father. This is also selfishness upon Hindley’s part since he only wanted his father’s love for his sister and himself. So to reprimand Heathcl...
From the beginning of the novel and most likely from the beginning of Heathcliff's life, he has suffered pain and rejection. When Mr. Earnshaw brings him to Wuthering Heights, he is viewed as a thing rather than a child. Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling it out the doors, while Nelly put it on the landing of the stairs hoping that it would be gone the next day. Without having done anything to deserve rejection, Heathcliff is made to feel like an outsider. Following the death of Mr. Earnshaw, Heathcliff suffers cruel mistreatment at the hands of Hindley. In these tender years, he is deprived of love, friendship, and education, while the treatment from jealous Hindley is barbaric and disrupts his mental balance. He is separated from the family, reduced to the status of a servant, undergoes regular beatings and forcibly separated from his soul mate, Catherine. The personality that Heathcliff develops in his adulthood has been formed in response to these hardships of his childhood.
First, Wuthering Heights is a contribution to the theme of the novel because it sets the mood for the scenes taken place inside the house. The house is first introduced to the reader during a storm. The house stands alone and the land around it is described as dreary and foreboding, which creates a mood of isolation. “On the bleak Yorkshire moors” describes the Yorkshire moors physical appearance. The estate has little vegetation and is more weathered, which moors are, as they are jutting, bare rocks towards the ocean. Wuthering Heights is an old stone house with gothic architecture and bleak interior. The people that live in Wuthering Heights are bitter and act violent. The characters of the story act wild when they are at Wuthering Heights, compared to other places in the novel. The setting of the house enforces the actions of the Earnshaws’, and Heathcliff. The name of the estate even sets a theme of gloom in the novel. Lockwood says Wuthering is, “a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather” (12).
Wuthering Heights is a novel which deviates from the standard of Victorian literature. The novels of the Victorian Era were often works of social criticism. They generally had a moral purpose and promoted ideals of love and brotherhood. Wuthering Heights is more of a Victorian Gothic novel; it contains passion, violence, and supernatural elements (Mitchell 119). The world of Wuthering Heights seems to be a world without morals. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë does not idealize love; she presents it realistically, with all its faults and merits. She shows that love is a powerful force which can be destructive or redemptive. Heathcliff has an all-consuming passion for Catherine. When she chooses to marry Edgar, his spurned love turns into a destructive force, motivating him to enact revenge and wreak misery. The power of Heathcliff’s destructive love is conquered by the influence of another kind of love. Young Cathy’s love for Hareton is a redemptive force. It is her love that brings an end to the reign of Heathcliff.
In Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, the Earnshaws, a middle class family, live at the estate, Wuthering Heights. When Mr. Earnshaw takes a trip to Liverpool, he returns with an orphan whom he christens “Heathcliff”. During their formative years, Catherine, Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter, plays with Heathcliff on the moors and becomes close with him. As a result, they form a special bond and Heathcliff and Catherine fall in love, unlike Hindley, Mr. Earnshaw’s son, who does not get along with Heathcliff. While Heathcliff benefits from his relationships, his connections are disadvantaged in terms of status, reputation, financial stability, and happiness.