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Wuthering Heights
I do agree with Emily Bronte's handling of the end of Wuthering Heights. The marriage of Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshaw ends the estrangement and quarrel between the two families that began...
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Wuthering Heights
First of all, you need to establish what a Byronic hero is. Usually, a Byronic hero is defined as a deeply flawed character, isolated from society, a true individual unconstrained by any human laws...
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Wuthering Heights
Social convention dictates that Catherine Earnshaw make as advantageous a marriage as possible. She is expected to marry a man as wealthy and as far up the class ladder as she can. Therefore, when...
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Wuthering Heights
A symbol is an object, event, or person that represents something else in a work of literature, so while Wuthering Heights may not fit the bill of a symbol, technically speaking, the book certainly...
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Wuthering Heights
Cruelty runs through the novel. The cruelties Heathcliff suffers as a child and adolescent harden him. He is adopted, favored by his stepfather, and then, after the stepfather dies, he is abused...
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Wuthering Heights
Catherine and Heathcliff have a meeting in the kitchen of Thrushcross Grange. Edgar Linton comes storming in, leaving two male employees he has brought with him in the passage. He arrives as...
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights has more than two narrators, if we include, for example, Catherine's diary entries and Isabella's letters, but the two main narrators are Lockwood and Nelly Dean. Bronte chose Mr....
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Wuthering Heights
A hero is a person who others see as courageous or bold. In that sense, Catherine Earnshaw could be understood as heroic. She is fearless. She marries Edgar Linton, in large part, as she tells...
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Wuthering Heights
The first thing you will need to do to create work on the postgraduate level is to sort out some factual details. The Gothic period was the late eighteenth century. Wuthering Heights, although...
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Wuthering Heights
A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used to stand for a whole (or sometimes, a whole is used to stand for a part). The following sentence from Wuthering Heights contains a...
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Wuthering Heights
Death absolutely provides thematic material in Wuthering Heights. First, the father's death early in the story leads to the theme of abuse and how abuse and neglect draw Cathy and Heathcliff into a...
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Wuthering Heights
Toward the beginning of Wuthering Heights, a raging snowstorm strands Mr. Lockwood at Heathcliff's estate, forcing him to spend the night. Already disturbed by the strange goings-on at Wuthering...
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is a Romantic novel because its hero and heroine, Cathy and Heathcliff, are unconventional. Heathcliff is a former street urchin who is born without connections, and Cathy loves...
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Wuthering Heights
I think it is safe to say that Catherine's marriage to Linton was a source of friction for Heathcliff! And it is not simply because he was dumped. Catherine's marriage amounted to a betrayal of...
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Wuthering Heights
I would explore the following points. Heathcliff is described in the novel as a fiend, as a diabolical character. He is considered an anti-hero in literature because of his demonic and villainous...
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Wuthering Heights
Edgar Linton truly loved Catherine. The problem was, he couldn't love her to the depth she needed to be loved, and he didn't understand her to the extent Heathcliff did. Edgar loved her as much as...
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Wuthering Heights
Chapter three is pivotal chapter in the book. This is the chapter where Lockwood tries to spend the night in the crazy old fashioned bed that had been Catherine’s, sees her carvings in the window...
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Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff elopes with Isabella to hurt Edgar and to avenge himself against Catherine's marrying Edgar Linton, whom he detests. By marrying Isabella, Heathcliff also gains power over her and...
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Wuthering Heights
While it could plausibly be argued that Wuthering Heights is a cautionary tale about the dangers of loving too much, that was not Bronte's intent. But let's go through how that argument would look:...
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Wuthering Heights
The structure of Wuthering Heights is quite complicated. It's natural to think about "duality" as a way of reducing this complexity, but it is a crude method, which will leave unexamined much of...
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Wuthering Heights
It's tempting to want to diagnose Heathcliff—his character is a kind of perfect storm of psychopathologies. I think, however, that we miss the point of the book in trying to assign Heathcliff (or...
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Wuthering Heights
I am not sure I can exactly meet your needs, but I can offer some thoughts based on Butler's theory of gender performativity. First, I would say the original Catherine (Catherine Earnshaw Linton),...
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Wuthering Heights
As is usually the case with authors, Bronte chose her novel's title carefully. The title actually represents more than one important aspect of the novel. The setting of Wuthering Heignts is the...
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte's views on marriage, as expressed in her novel Wuthering Heights, are unlike the views most modern readers, especially students, may hold. Living in the northern England moors in the...
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Wuthering Heights
From chapter 11 until Catherine's death, Nelly and Catherine have a strained relationship, characterized by Nelly turning against Catherine. Nelly, by her own testimony, has been alarmed by...
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Wuthering Heights
Bronte portrays difficulties in the lives of women by showing how much power a husband had over a wife. This can be illustrated by examining the marriage of Isabella Linton and Mr. Heathcliff....
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Wuthering Heights
In the first paragraph of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood strongly approves of Mr. Heathcliff, his new landlord. He says, "Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair," and then, in a burst of...
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Wuthering Heights
The first thing to consider is that the Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901, in the second longest reign in English history, only recently surpassed by Queen Elizabeth II. This was a period of...
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights suggests that character is more important than birth or inheritance. Hareton is a perfect example of this. Just as Heathcliff overcomes his low birth to become master of both the...
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Wuthering Heights
After the hardships and discrimination that Heathcliff endured early in his years at Wuthering Heights, he returns a wealthy yet vengeful man. His targets are the two men he believes wronged him...
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Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff is one of the most villainous characters in all of literature. He is referred to as a devil over and over again throughout Wuthering Heights. When he is first adopted by the...
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Wuthering Heights
The title Wuthering Heights is symbolic of the characters and relationships in the novel. First of all, the title of the novel symbolizes the setting in which the house of the same name is...
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Wuthering Heights
The roots of ambition in Wuthering Heights are present in both Heathcliff and Catherine. Heathcliff, who is taken off the street by Mr. Earnshaw, is mistreated by everyone in the family except his...
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Wuthering Heights
Catherine decides to marry Edgar Linton to escape Wuthering Heights. This is ironic, since it is the ultimate fate of her unquiet soul to roam those misty, muddy moors which brought Heathcliff and...
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Wuthering Heights
I think you have a good start on a thesis statement, but what you have there is really a topic. Think about how you are going to prove this, and what characters will be your focus. If I am correct,...
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Wuthering Heights
Although the novels differ in many ways, they also have several things in common. One is obvious, but it is sometimes easy to overlook the obvious. That is, they are both novels, imaginary stories...
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Northanger Abbey
On the surface, it's hard to imagine two more dissimilar books than Jane Austen's light-hearted love romp, Northanger Abbey, and the dark, Gothic Wuthering Heights. In both novels, however,...
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Wuthering Heights
Nelly in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is neither a completely reliable nor a completely unreliable narrator. On the positive side, she had direct personal involvement, and was an eyewitness...
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights can be seen as a cross between a Gothic novel and a more typical Romantic novel, Gothic novels being a branch of the Romantic movement. Characteristic of a...
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Wuthering Heights
Nelly feels bad for Heathcliff, because although Mr. Earnshaw and Catherine love Heathcliff, Mrs. Earnshaw’s feelings are more neutral; it is Hindley who loathes Heathcliff and treats him...
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Wuthering Heights
In Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, the theme of passion vs. social conventions is particularly expressed in Catherine and Heathcliff's relationship. As children, Heathcliff and Catherine once...
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Wuthering Heights
In chapter 30 of Wuthering Heights the relationship between Zilla and Cathy is mutually contemptuous, with both parties having perhaps genuine reasons to dislike one another. Nelly explains that...
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Wuthering Heights
Two main emotions drive Heathcliff in the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. The first is love for Catherine and the second is hatred for the people he believes to have wronged or despised...
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Wuthering Heights
Although she has inherited some of the caprice and headstrong tendencies of her mother, Catherine Linton demonstrates a tenderness and solicitude toward others not seen in her mother, qualities...
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Wuthering Heights
In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff vows revenge on both Hindley Earnshaw and Edgar Linton. He seeks revenge against Hindley for treating Heathcliff like a servant and humiliating him...
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The Raven
Certainly, there are shared literary elements in Poe's "The Raven" and Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights: GOTHIC There are several Gothic techniques that are present in both Poe's and Bronte's...
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The Raven
It is interesting to see the connections that exist between Poe's "The Raven" and Bronte's Wuthering Heights. Both can be connected in how they evoke a sense of darkness within the human...
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Wuthering Heights
The passionate love that forms the basis of the narrative in Bronte's Wuthering Heights is an all- encompassing expression. Given how it is shown in different contexts with the same intensity, it...
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is a Victorian novel, which traditionally contains characters who lead a hard and difficult life in nearly every way and are then redeemed in the end by hard work...
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Wuthering Heights
A gamin (a street "urchin" or homeless child) whom Mr. Earnshaw brings back with him on his three-day trip to Liverpool, the newly named Heathcliff is named after an Earnshaw child who has died....
