Thrushcross Grange Essays

  • Importance of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange

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    another. All the characters in this novel are commingled in their relationships with Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The setting used throughout the novel Wuthering Heights helps to set the mood to describe the characters. We find two households separated by the cold, muddy, and barren moors, one by the name of Wuthering Heights, and the other by the name of Thrushcross Grange. Each house stands alone, in the mist of the dreary land, and the atmosphere creates a mood of isolation. In

  • A Comparison of the Divided Self in Wuthering Heights and Frankenstein

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    their initial outing to Thrushcross Grange. Their promise to grow up together as 'rude as savages,' is destroyed when Cathy and Heathcliff are separated physically by many factors resulting from this visitation. Just as the Linton's dog 'holds' Cathy, so too is the Linton's house symbolically presented as separating her from Heathcliff, when Heathcliff resorts to peering in through their 'great glass panes' to see Cathy, after being physically 'dragged' out of Thrushcross Grange. Cathy is also depicted

  • The Story of Lovers in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    social class. Heathcliff and Catherine wandered beyond the secure gates of Wuthering Heights to a large estate owned by Edgar Linton called Thrushcross Grange. They spyed through one of the windows and were caught by Linton. Heathcliff managed to escape in time but Catherine injured herself and was taken in by Linton¹s servants. Catherine stayed at Thrushcross Grange while Heathcliff returned to Wuthering Heights. She stayed at the estate for several weeks being nursed by Linton and his servants. The

  • Wuthering Heights versus Thrushcross Grange

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    In Emil Brontë's novel "Wuthering Heights" the two main residences, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, are both grand, wealthy houses lying near the wild, Yorkshire moors, "completely removed from the stir of society" (pg1). Besides these similarities though, they are almost exact opposites. Wuthering Heights is associated with passion, nature and the elemental whereas Thrushcross Grange epitomises civilisation, peace and order. The characteristics of both abodes are also evident in their

  • A Comparison of Wuthering Heights and Heart of Darkness

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    stories of similar morals.  They differ, however, in the narrative frames, points of view, and some personality traits of the narrators. The dual narrator arrangement of Wuthering Heights begins with Mr. Lockwood, the naive new tenant of Thrushcross Grange.  He seems to be quite the social person and goes to visit Heathcliff who is not so social and actually seems downright inhospitable.  Due to weather conditions at the time (which Lockwood was not wise to go out in) Lockwood becomes stranded

  • How the Houses in Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights Compare

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    How the Houses in Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights Compare Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange are two exact opposites separated by the neutral territory of the moors, a dreamlike place thought of as heaven by Heathcliff and Catherine. Although both estates are wealthy, there is a definite difference in class between them and this bears greatly on the characters from both estates ability to socialise with each other. The two different buildings have their own strengths and

  • Catherine Earnshaw

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    Heathcliff so intensely that she claims they are the same person but does not marry him because Hindley has degraded him after their father's death so her desire for social advancement motivates her to marry Edgar Linton instead, a neighbour from Thrushcross Grange and he is handsome and rich, another reason for Catherine marrying him. She is quite passionate about Heathcliff though, and does not want to give him up. She becomes ill when Heathcliff and Edgar fight, and dies in childbirth. Catherine is

  • Nelly Dean, the Narrator of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    totally un-opinionated about the characters.  She was like a mother figure, always there for everybody, and listened to them.  That is what made her a good narrator because she always knew how everyone felt.  She lived At Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange all her life, and experienced the first and second generation, therefore she knew exactly what went on.  If Heathcliff was the narrator, you would not know how Isabella or Edgar felt due to their lack of communication or friendship.  Although

  • RainyDay Relationships Use of Weather in Wuthering Heights

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    the moors, wind blows fiercely during storms. At this point, Lockwood knows little about Heathcliff, but the significance of the house’s name will become more apparent to him later in the novel. After getting settled into his new house at Thrushcross Grange, Lockwood decides to pay a visit to Heathcliff. He arrives at the house just as snow is starting to fall and observes the yard. “On that bleak hilltop,” he notes, “the earth was hard with a black frost, and the air made me shiver through every

  • Storm & Calm in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    on the windy moors, belonging to the Earnshaw family.  The house is highly charged with emotion of hatred, cruelty, violence, and savage love.  In comparison, Thrushcross Grange, the land of calm, is settled in the valley and is the residence of the genteel Lintons.  The same differences exists between Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, as they do in Heathcliff and Edgar.  As Catherine points out, the contrast between the two “resembled what you see in exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country

  • Physical and Emotional Destruction in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    late 18th century and early 19th century rural England emphasizing selfishness. From the very beginning, there is an obvious tension between the households at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The Heights is the house of the Earnshaws: Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw, Catherine, Hindley and later Linton and Hareton. The Grange is inhabited by the Lintons: Mr. and Mrs. Linton, Edgar and Isabella. This tension begins with the arrival of Heathcliff, a gypsy orphan. The Earnshaw family, minus Mr. Earnshaw

  • Analysis of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    Edgar used to pay her visits, Heathcliff would mark off the days that he came over to spend time with Catherine and the days that he did not come over, which would be the days she would spend time with Heathcliff. Also when Catherine moved to Thrushcross Grange, after she married Edgar Linton, Heathcliff would stand outside her window to watch her. Heathcliff was obsessed with the love he had for Catherine. He loved Catherine more than his own life. The two have a powerful emotional bond together,

  • Symphonic Imagery in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    fantastic loyalty untempered by any civilization. Their dedication to one another to the exclusion of all other society is alluring, but unworkable in real life. In the end, their unchecked ardor is consumed by its own fire: Catherine wastes away on Thrushcross Grange, and Heathcliff turns his thwarted passion on everyone who reminds him of what he has lost. Heathcliff and the elder Catherine seem to despise reading -- Catherine does say, after all, that she took her "dingy volume by the scroop, and hurled

  • The Narrative Structure of Wuthering Heights and Heart of Darkness

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    methods of narration that reflect the styles and expectations of those times. In Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the character of Lockwood begins the tale, and then moves into recounting the oration of the history of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange as seen through the eyes of Nelly Dean. Lockwood's additions to the story are limited to the beginning of the novel and to the end, and to one occasion when he pleads with Nelly Dean, "Draw your knitting out of your pocket-that will do-now continue

  • Interweaving Characters and Surroundings in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    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. The setting used throughout the novel Wuthering Heights, helps to set the mood to describe the characters. We find two households separated by the cold, muddy, and barren moors, one by the name of Wuthering Heights, and the other Thrushcross Grange. Each house stands

  • Nelly Dean of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    Wuthering Heights, the author, Emily Bronte, made Nelly the narrator. Many have questioned why Bronte would do so. Nelly never really had a life of her own because she lived at Wuthering Heights all her life.  Therefore, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange was her life.  Nelly was more than a servant, and had a personal relationship with most of the characters,which is why her story is so efficient, and her lack of knowledge not as important.  She really loved them, and she shows it when she says

  • Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

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    so he thought) about Heathcliff, and all was happy and merry at Thrushcross Grange. Then Heathcliff returned. While his motivations for leaving were good and heartfelt, his return was almost cruel for our ‘princess’ Cathy. She was so used to having everything that she could want, that she thought she could have them both. But Edgar stepped in. He finally stood up for himself and told Heathcliff never to return to Thrushcross Grange. It’s hard not to choose a side here, but it’s also hard to choose

  • Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights - Frame Narrative

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    first is an overlook provided by Mr. Lockwood, and the second is the most important. It is provided by Nelly Dean, who tells the story from a first-person perspective, and depicts the events that occur through her life at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Nelly Dean is a native of the moors and has lived all her life with the characters whose story she tells. Although she is an uneducated woman, Emily Bronte manages to express Nelly as a capable storyteller in two explanations. The first

  • Comparing Heart of Darkness and Wuthering Heights

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    motherless at the age of two and spent most of her life with her father and siblings in Haworth, England. It was in this location that Emily first experienced the moors that play a critical role of her novel linking Wuthering Heights with Thushcross Grange. The moors was the area Heathcliff and Catherine would escape to when things were difficult. Haworth was a town that was isolated and surrounded by moors much like the setting of Wuthering Heights is described. Also, Emily Bronte parallels her own

  • Effective Literary Elements in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights

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    able to understand how the author successfully uses theme, characters, and setting to create a very controversial novel in which the reader is torn between opposite conditions of love and hate, good and evil, revenge and forgiveness in  Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. There is no doubt that the use of conflictive characters such as Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and Edgar, with their interactions in the two different settings creates an excellent background for a doomed love story