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Wuthering Heights
Class conflict is one of the major themes. Catherine is very wealthy and Heathcliff, an orphan, has nothing. Bronte asks the reader to consider whether property ownership and money should have...
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Emily Brontë's background and culture certainly influenced the writing of Wuthering Heights, just as it influenced her sister Charlotte's writing of Jane Eyre. It was the only novel Emily Brontë...
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Heathcliff and Catherine meet when they are children. They play together and roam the moors freely, getting dirty and messy and often looking like two vagabonds. They grow up in the same house,...
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Nature is most often used to contrast the deep love that Catherine and Heathcliff share with the shallow love Catherine and Linton have for each other. Catherine and Heathcliff are associated with...
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I would say the chief similarity between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw's relationship and Edgar and Catherine's relationship is that both Heathcliff and Edgar adore Catherine. This creates a...
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The nature of texts like Wuthering Heights is that "modern" critical perspectives can help us make new and valuable interpretations. When you ask whether such approaches can "confuse" readers, you...
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Love and hatred are prevalent concerns in Emily Brontë’s novel. The author shows how tightly the two may be intertwined and how passionate love can drive equally intense hatred. The positive...
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A tragic hero has several characteristics which Heathcliff clearly demonstrates. For example, a tragic hero has a tragic flaw, which is one fundamental flaw in his or her character which, more than...
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As was common among women in those days, Catherine dies in childbirth, giving life to her daughter, also called Catherine. Two months premature, baby Catherine is very weak, but thankfully outlives...
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As a Byronic hero, Heathcliff's nature is intrinsically connected to his tormented, inhumanly passionate love for Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, too, loves him passionately, "He's more myself...
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Catherine Earnshaw is given to us as a free spirit, a Romantic heroine every bit as much a child of nature as Heathcliff. As an arch-Romantic, she is governed by the dictates of her heart more than...
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The pairings Emily Bronte uses serve two goals: first, they reinforce the theme that nurture matters more than nature in bringing up children; second, they reinforce that the sins of the fathers...
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Marriage functions in different ways for different characters in the novel. Nelly’s view of marriage is quite conventional; she sees it as a domestic ideal. For Catherine, a monogamous marriage is...
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Wuthering Heights was published by Emily Bronte in 1847, 10 years into the reign of Queen Victoria. Although the Victorian era is commonly thought of as very prude or uptight—"Victorian," as it...
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The novel Wuthering Heights comes as a link between the Romantic and the Victorian social and literary eras. I like to think that young Heathcliff is a Romantic, a Byronic Hero hurt by love,...
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The marriage of Hareton and the young Cathy Linton Heathcliff brings reconciliation and a happy ending to the novel, realizing the dreams that were destroyed in the older generation. Hareton and...
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In an era of sentimentality about the patriarchal family and the domestic hearth (Dicken's A Christmas Carol, with its poor but idyllic Cratchit family, was written only a few years before...
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The formerly fierce and high-spirited Catherine is much altered in this chapter. We learn that: The flash of her eyes had been succeeded by a dreamy and melancholy softness; they no longer gave...
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This is a long and complicated chapter that introduces us to the backstory of Catherine and Heathcliff and moves from the present to the past and back again. The chapter also introduces the idea of...
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The novel makes clear that the setting of the moors and the stony, rugged Wuthering Heights home itself form the characters of Catherine and Heathcliff. The moors and the house are harsh, bleak,...
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No one can deny that Heathcliff incites numerous cruelties throughout his revenge-driven planning in Wuthering Heights. But his character is not entirely without sympathy—after all, Heathcliff is a...
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Wuthering Heights is a scathing critique of the legal patriarchy that dominated life in Victorian England. The novel is set in the past, the time span running from the 1770s to 1800, but as with...
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The fairytale most often associated with Wuthering Heights is "Beauty and the Beast," with the beast as Heathcliff and beauty as Catherine Earnshaw. Heathcliff's dirty, bestial appearance is...
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Catherine and Heathcliff spent time playing at Penistone Crag when they were children, and as a result of that association, both characters come to link that location with the freedom of their...
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The most valuable aspect of Wuthering Heights in the context of teaching is that it serves as a perfect anchoring point when introducing Romanticism to students. Therefore, first and foremost, a...
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Emily Brontë uses the character of Heathcliff as her primary vehicle for exploring issues of class inequality in eighteenth-century England. Heathcliff enters the novel when he enters the Earnshaw...
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Heathcliff carefully explains to Nelly Dean why he is not taking his final revenge. Heathcliff says he could exact revenge by separating the young lovers as he and Catherine were cruelly separated....
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Mainly, he does not think Cathy will fall in love with him because she is cold toward him. Cathy is as unfriendly in receiving Lockwood as anyone else at the Heights. When Nelly asks Lockwood about...
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Heathcliff is first discovered by the Earnshaw family on the streets of Liverpool, where they decide to take him in and raise him as their own. In this most external of respects, Catherine is his...
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Heathcliff outlives his beloved Catherine by several decades. Throughout that time he is angry and tortured by the loss. He is determined to destroy the families he feels have destroyed Catherine...
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Queen Victoria sat on the throne from 1837 until her death in 1901. Literature at the beginning of this period was still influenced by Romanticism, meaning that it often featured the supernatural,...
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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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The character of Heathcliff is the very epitome of Gothic. Dark, dangerous, and brooding, he's a man without a past, a man whose origins are an absolute mystery. In fact, he's more like a force of...
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Nelly's attitude toward Catherine does not really change in these chapters, or throughout the book as a whole, for that matter. While she pities Catherine's untimely death, she feels Catherine is...
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Heathcliff would certainly be classified as a villain over a hero but that does not mean that he is completely evil and does not warrant sympathy. When Heathcliff is a child, Mr. Earnshaw finds the...
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Joseph is an older man who is employed by the residents at Wuthering Heights as a servant. The family gives him much freedom, and often he chooses not to work very hard at all, like in this scene...
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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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The first few chapters of the novel detail Mr. Lockwood's initial impressions of the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. Lockwood is staying in Thrushcross Grange, a nearby manor that is also owned...
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Nelly goes to visit Isabella, who was recently married to Heathcliff and is now living at Wuthering Heights. There, she runs into Heathcliff, who asks after Catherine's health. Nelly tells him that...
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Wuthering Heights is named for the home and farm where much of the action of the novel takes place. This location is central and formative to Catherine's and Heathcliff's lives, the main characters...
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At the beginning of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood gets trapped at the Heights by a snowstorm. He is allowed to sleep in a certain forbidden bedroom, which used to be Catherine Earnshaw's. While...
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The novel was titled Wuthering Heights because much of the plot takes place at the titular manor. Cathy and Heathcliff grew up there and fall in love as teenagers. Cathy's childhood activities on...
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Wuthering Heights helped develop the modern style of the unreliable narrator and multiple points of view. With an outside narrator (Lockwood) and an inside narrator (Nellie), Wuthering Heights...
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The darkness of the characters in Wuthering Heights, especially of Cathy and Heathcliff, is drawn out by their professed love for each other. Although the novel has been traditionally seen as...
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Isabella Linton, of Thrushcross Grange, is the sister of Edgar Linton; the man who will become Catherine Earnshaw's husband, much to Heathcliff's chagrin. Isabella is a lady. She is brought up in a...
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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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In Wuthering Heights, homes are represented as the seat of male power and the physical location that accomadates patriarchal control over female autonomy and sexuality. The most telling example of...
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Chapter 11 includes a confrontation between Heathcliff and Edgar when Edgar finds out about Heathcliff's plans to marry Isabella, his sister. What is so interesting about this section is the way...
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Nelly's narration of the death of her master, Mr. Earnshaw, is moving and poignant in a number of ways, and stylistically Bronte uses a number of devices to highlight the significance of this...
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This is a difficult issue in this novel, because I believe that Bronte tantalises us by giving us enough evidence to suggest that Heathcliff's madness in later life is due to the cruelty he endured...
