Personality: Even within the first moment he's introduced in episode 9, Wolfwood comes across as a laid-back, humorous guy, both a dork by nature and a humored man capable of teasing and having fun; he takes his job none-too-seriously in comparison to a normal priest--as a preacher, he's not holier-than-thou--for obvious reasons, as his bloody background dictates--and is decidedly terrible at being a man of the cloth. He drinks, curses, smokes, and kills (granted, he kills those who are cruel or probably deserve to die, but it's hardly something a priest normally partakes in). Vash realized he was more than he seemed early on after the initial introduction in episode 9: when the two men leave their bus in the middle of the desert to save a child who'd been left behind, Wolfwood blindly charges into a situation of possible injury or death despite knowing the hazards, revealing to the audience a.) a sense of familiarity with danger and b.) a lack of preservation when it comes to a innocent child's life. Vash later on is convinced he's not a typical preacher man when he sees how accurately Wolfwood shoots. Wolfwood himself grew up with an abusive guardian, and in the end killed the man and started a life rife with bullet shells and bloodstains--he's dedicated his life to protecting children like his old self, and becomes a traveling priest for the purpose of both raising money and taking helpless children to the orphanage/church back home. He will do what's in his power to prevent a child from being taken by him: for example, in episode 10 he helps a mother and her son get money for debts, so that he wouldn't have to take the child away in a last effort. His compassion for children is more-than-likely his strongest, and even t... ... middle of paper ... ... feet to carry him onward, out of the cruel sun, back into the forest. There wasn't anything in that direction, so it was good to see the plant-life again. Plant life... that was something that was out of the ordinary. This made the desert look even more meager and pathetic than usual. Green was a fairly uncommon color, after all, in Gunsmoke... The only time he would recall it... Ah, Milly wore Green. He smiled, unlit cigarette still clinging to his lips. Sweet ol' Milly, he hoped you were fairing better than he was. Then again, he was fairing better than he thought, since he was supposed to be dead. He remembered a calm desperation in his voice, asking for more time, thinking about the people he'd leave behind... So perhaps this was a sort of kind hand dealing a second chance at life. Was it God? He wondered this curiously. ... Perhaps it was the Devil.
In vain, he desperately awaits the comforting words that might provide him a peaceful death"Behind the windows of the second floor,
Thorslev writes “He is suffering from unrequited love; in spite of his often-confessed preference for solitude and his dislike for mankind, he is a humanitarian” (Thorslev 137). Heathcliff’s whole meaning of happiness in life depending on Cathy loving him. While, at moments he received spurts of love from her he was happy. But because of the rules of society he never truly received the love he wanted from her. Focusing on Shrek, in this regard, it fits him perfectly. In Shrek, everyone in the swamp that lived around him depended on him to fight for their land. Although, Shrek was still an isolated person, he knew that he carried the burden of the land and swamp people. The act that he committed shows how deep down he has noble characteristics. Those characteristics just have to be brought up. Secondly, Thorslev comments that “Like most Romantic poetic personalities, he has been “fated,” set apart from other men, alienated from the social world of which he would otherwise gladly be a part” (Thorslev 137). In Wuthering Heights on countless occasions, Heathcliff tried to go out of his way to fit in with the society. As a young child he would try to set aside certain traits that he was born with just so others could be comfortable. Leaving for three years, Heathcliff returned back with money and still was not viewed as a Nobel person in society. No matter what
had repeatedly come close to death in the war and in surgery and believed that he would
hidden. Silas was betrayed by his whole previous life. The church had let him down and his closest freind had robbed him. This supposed freind even set him up for an accusation of murder. To top it all off, Silas’s wife to be was also taken by this wolf in sheep’s clothing. This type of betrayal makes a person hate humanity especially in such a close knit community. Silas moved himself to the fringes of
and the life he knew was now gone . All he could do now was cry , the only way he knew
almost as Fate were deeming it necessary for him to die, and that he had no
One of the characters that is greatly affected by cruelty is Heathcliff. He came into the story in the very beginning as an orphan to the Earnshaw
To begin with, one of the main characters in Wuthering Heights is the devilish Heath cliff. An orphan despised since his birth. Heath cliff grows up to become a sadistic, cruel, vengeful and immoral man .He is often referred to as “like the devil” or as “evil”, and this is certainly the way he acts.
fate was for him to die early. “I sought my death, and found it in my
Heathcliff is a character defined by his sympathetic past. Growing up as an orphan from a tender age, deprived of a structured family and family support system, exposed to the negative influences life offered, it is almost a certainty that his behaviour will not be that of an ideal gentleman.
Perhaps the ultimate symbol of this corruption is Linton Heathcliff, the son of Isabella and Heathcliff. Linton is a pitiful, scatterbrained boy, who seems to be completely occupied with his own thoughts. When Heathcliff meets Linton for the first time, Linton breaks down into tears, and Heathcliff describes the boy as, “...a shame of (Linton’s) mother, never to waken your filial regard for me! You are my son, then, I’ll tell you; and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed” (194). In this short dialogue between the two, the reader can infer a lot. First, Heathcliff, the owner of Thrushcross Grange, is a product of the abuses he suffered during his childhood at Wuthering Heights, which has caused him to become a violent, obsessive, and demeaning character. He later becomes a shell of himself, constantly mourning the loss of Catherine, and his transformations symbolize the change in Thrushcross Grange from a place of high class to one of as little esteem as Wuthering Heights. Also, Linton is the child of one member of each house. As he is, a small, pitiful character, he symbolizes how the intermingling between the members of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange has caused the status of both to
In his book, Darwin's Worms, Adam Phillip says that Freud was "involved in taking God out of the picture, leaving nothing between us and nature" (Phillip 1). This statement directly correlates with the story and the characters of Wuthering Heights. One of the main themes of the book is that of natural, instinctual desires. The passion between Catherine I and Heathcliff has been called "semi-savage" (Jerrold 302) because of the rawness and naturalness of it. Heathcliff himself is also very close to nature. He is unrefined and acts solely on instincts and desires. Although there are many religious references in the book, God is not portrayed as a being with sole control over the lives of the characters. Nature plays much more of a controlling factor than God in the story. Natural instincts, as well as physical nature itself drove the lives of the characters of Wuthering Heights. They acted on passions and desires and were affected by the external world around them. For example, when Lockwood fell ill, it was not a work of God, but a direct consequence of nature.
Heathcliff is a character in the novel whose personality is the center of the dispute between the psychological nature vs. nurture. Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, contains many controversial psychological conflicts, the main of which was the argument about Heathcliff’s wicked nature and how it was formed. Whether his wickedness was from his own personal nature or from how he was nurtured. Heathcliff was an orphan, growing up in a household in which no one enjoyed his presence. Heathcliff’s dark character can also be explained through psychological references such as Sigmund Freud’s id, ego, and superego. Being that he is the id, Heathcliff’s personality represents the most basic desires of a human.
Heathcliff is characterized “as dark almost as if it [Heathcliff] came from the devil.” (45) Throughout Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is treated poorly and is mainly a product of a troubled childhood. This man then manifests into a person that is hardly capable of holding back his impetuous actions, and, therefore, exemplifies the capacity of the most powerful emotions. Although he may not be the ideal protagonist, it is ultimately not his fault and in the end is defined by the events in the story. Due to the extreme emotional and physical pain endured throughout his life, Heathcliff exhibits the strongest love and hate towards others through passion and revenge.