Isabella Linton Essays

  • Summary of Emily Bronte´s Wuthering Heights

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    pampered and favored son, Heathcliff now finds himself treated as a common laborer, forced to work in the fields. Heathcliff continues his close relationship with Catherine, however. One night they wander to Thrushcross Grange, hoping to tease Edgar and Isabella L... ... middle of paper ... ...appalled, ends his tenancy at Thrushcross Grange and returns to London. However, six months later, he pays a visit to Nelly, and learns of further developments in the story. Although Catherine originally mocked

  • Wuthering Heights

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    foster sister. Heathcliff and Catherine are in love, but she marries Edgar Linton instead. When Cathy died, she wanted both Heathcliff and Edgar to suffer because Edgar never understood why she loved Heathcliff and Heathcliff because he never knew why she married Edgar. Catherine Linton ~ She is the daughter of the older Catherine and Edgar Linton. Her mother Catherine died shortly after she was born. She married Linton Heathcliff and became Catherine Heathcliff. Then after her husband’s death

  • Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights

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    is said that revenge is the dominant theme of the book. Towards the 2nd part of the novel, the focus of the story was about Heathcliff planning for vengeance against the Edgar Linton. Edgar Linton is the person who married Catherine who was Heathcliff’s only love. The heroes in the story are Edgar Linton and Hareton Earnshaw. Heathcliff is considered as the villain. The book is also taken over by sin and retribution (crime and punishment). All the characters sin in some way are

  • Heathcliff: Made A Villain By Love

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    unrequited love for Cathy. Heathcliff's villainy is apparent in how he treats the Earnshaws, degrading Hindley and Hareton just as Hindley did him. This is also shown in his actions against the Lintons. Heathcliff hates the Lintons because Cathy married Edgar. Heathcliff uses his treachery to steal away the Linton fortune and to degrade their offspring. Heathcliff's villainy is finally shown in how he treats Cathy herself. He loves her so much he hates her. He feels that Cathy betrayed her heart and married

  • Pairs in Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

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    pairings include narrator Nelly Dean and Hindley Earnshaw, Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff, and Isabella and Edgar Linton. Each relationship is unique: Nelly and Hindley are both nursed by Nelly’s mother and are raised alongside one another, but Nelly is a servant to the Earnshaw family; Cathy and Heathcliff are raised together after Cathy’s father brings the supposed orphan Heathcliff home from Liverpool; and Isabella and Edgar are biologically brother and sister. Yet, aside from being based on a brother/sister

  • Analysis Of Heathcliff's Demonic Personality In Wuthering Heights

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    by Emily Bronte, cruelty is vividly shown through the character Heathcliff. This novel takes place during the 1800s and focuses on social relevance, and supernatural ideas. The novel is a series of narratives which involves two families, known as Lintons and Earnshaws. The main character Heathcliff, who causes many problems, is believed to be a cruel character. Bronte makes it hard for critics and readers to learn how Heathcliff should be viewed as. Various critics and readers tend to have various

  • Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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    book never does anything honorable or dignified. Heathcliff creates whirlwinds of problems by just being present, sometimes, by not even doing a thing. Heathcliff's problems not only the affect the Earnshaw's but also their neighbors Edgar & Isabella Linton. Heathcliff comes to live with the Earnshaw's, which also includes their children Catherine and Hindley. As Graham Holderness states, "The 'gipsy brat' old Mr. Earnshaw brings home with him has neither name nor status, property nor possessions

  • Wuthering Heights Analysis

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    Neil Zhao Honors English 10 Mrs. Cesaro 14 January, 2015 The Forces of Life: Storm Vs. Calm At the outskirts of a time when capitalism and industrialization are changing in the society of the Post-1700 's, there lies a universal stratum made up of two opposite forces, storm and calm. Represented by the clash of elemental forces, Emily Brontё 's novel, "Wuthering Heights”, depicts two houses in England that are almost the exact opposite of each other in a strong, contrasting incentive between the

  • Positive and Negative Influences in Great Expectations, Les Miserables, and Wuthering Heights

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    In any good novel, and even in life, people can be influenced in both positive and negative ways. In the three novels that we have read so far, Great Expectations, Lés Misérables, and Wuthering Heights, the main characters are faced with negative challenges and influences. Positive guides and influences also affect the characters in these books; the positive guides usually end up winning in the end. In Great Expectations, the main character of the story was Pip. Some of the negative influences that

  • A Comparison Between Wuthering Heights And Beowulf

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    Throughout a lifetime, only so much conflict could be bore upon oneself. There is always a breaking point, the important aspect is the timing. From my story Wuthering Heights to Beowulf and Canterbury Tales there are conflicts that have been exaggerated and then blown to preposterous proportions. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight there are conflicts between man and man just like there are in the world we live in today. Conflicts in books or stories could show what is going on in the real world

  • Wuthering Heights Quotes Analysis

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    Wuthering Heights is a gothic novel by Emily Brontë. In this novel, there are tragic events that transpire and appear to have taken place due to jealousy. Several of these events include, when Heathcliff had feelings for Cathy but Isabella liked Heathcliff and so Isabella was jealous of Cathy because she was more closer to Heathcliff and more beautiful. Another event was when Hindley was envious of Heathcliff because he was more favored by Mr. Earnshaw and last but not least, Heathcliff was covetous

  • Selfishness in "Wuthering Heights"

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    Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and Linton Heathcliff all commit a sin called selfishness. Catherine Earnshaw appears to be a woman who is free spirited. However, Catherine is also quite self-centered. She clearly states that her love for Edgar Linton does not match how much she loves Heathcliff. She is saying that she does love both, and she is unwilling to give one up for the other; she wants “Heathcliff for her friend”. Catherine admits that her love for Linton is “like the foliage in the woods”;

  • Setting Analysis and Symbolism of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

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    Setting Analysis and Symbolism of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte In Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses the setting of the English Moors, a setting she is familiar with, to place two manors, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The first symbolizes man's dark side while the latter symbolizes an artificial utopia. This 19th century setting allows the reader to see the destructive nature of love when one loves the wrong person. The manor Wuthering Heights is described as dark and demonic

  • Violence In Wuthering Heights Research Paper

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    Its inhabitants, including Edgar Linton, are generally more refined, with more morals and calmer attitudes than those of Wuthering Heights. Catherine Earnshaw, who is from Wuthering heights, is a character that creates the conflict throughout the whole book and between the two characters, Edgar and Heath cliff. To clarify more that Catherine is torn between her love for Heathcliff and her desire to be a gentlewoman, and her decision to marry the gentle Edgar Linton drags almost all of the novel's

  • The Presentation of Childhood in "Wuthering Heights"

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    Heathcliff’s attitudes towards Hindley and his sadistic nature, as seen in chapter 17, “in rousing his rage a pitch above his malignity” there is hyperbole and melodrama as the cruelty that stemmed from his abuse in childhood has been passed onto Isabella in adulthood. In chapter three, Lockwood opens a window to Catherine Earnshaws childhood through perusing through her books “Catherine’s library was select…scarcely one chapter had escaped a pen-and-ink commentary…scrawled in an unformed childish

  • Kat

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    During the winter of 1801, Lockwood stays at the manor where he meets his landlord Heathcliff, a very rich man who lives in Wuthering Heights. Consumed by curiosity Lockwood asks his maid to recall the story of Heathcliff. Nelly Dean consents to this idea and begins to reminisce while Lockwood writes her tales in his diary. Nelly remembers when she was a young girl that she worked as a servant to Mr. Earnshaw who adopts an orphan from Liverpool. He intends to raise him with his own children, who

  • Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

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    other emotion displayed in the novel’s plot.” The beauty of it can be seen when both Catherine and Heathcliff are at a young age and they soon start to have feelings for each other. Their love is not strong enough to stop Catherine marrying Edgar Linton, the oldest of the Linton’s family. Catherine is pregnant with her and Edgar’s first child and will give birth any minute. After the birth of Cathy, Catherine is dying due to her sick state. Determine to see her one more time Heathcliff secretly visits

  • Parental Influences in Heathcliff, Cathy and Linton

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    always represented at the same time and can come out in different situations. For instance, as Cathy Linton grows up, her personality is a mixture of her calmer father, Edgar, and her more fiery mother, Catherine. She shows both these personalities, but she limits each to the correct time and circumstance. Also, the same goes for Linton Heathcliff, who has become a mixture of both his mother, Isabella, and his father, Heathcliff. Lastly, this is shown in Hareton Earnshaw, who, because he has little

  • Love In Wuthering Heights

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    different types of love for two different people. Her love for Heathcliff was her everything, it was her identity to love and live for Heathcliff but as soon as she found out how society views Heathcliff, she sacrificed their love and married Edgar Linton in the hopes of saving Heathcliff from Hindley and protecting him from the eyes of society. In her conversation with Nelly, Cathy who professed her love for Heathcliff quoted “My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I

  • Yellow Wallpaper Feminism

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    Throughout history, women have been considered inferior to men. In patriarchal societies, women were deemed to have no valuable opinions and were dependent on men for financial and emotional support from birth to death. Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte Perkins Gillman's "The Yellow Wallpaper" both depict the repression of women, their inferior status, and the defiance of societal norms by feminist characters. For centuries, men have assumed that women are the weaker sex due to menstruation