Bronte is already making us feel intense pity for Heathcliff, who, at this point in the novel would seem to be the most favourable character, and the greatest victim. ... It is after Heathcliff's return that we begin to see the darker, and more devious sides of his character. ... Yet Isabella's ignorant, naive character ignored the warning, making us have little sympathy for the young woman when Heathcliff used, and even beaten her. ... Both parties strongly disliked Heathcliff at the time in question, and because of the flaws already shown in their characters, would they probably ex...

• Word Count: 1416
• Approx Pages: 6

Some refer to Heathcliff as a diabolical character due to his cruel and demonic behavior. ... Heathcliff is left lonely, bitter, and resentful to all the vindictive characters that surround him. ... With the exception of Heathcliff, the reader realizes that each character receives what he/she deserves (Champion 59-60). ... Heathcliff is clearly the only true character that deserves any sympathy. ... Thankfully, not to the characters that cause all this grief in Heathcliff's life. ...

• Word Count: 1444
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Heathcliff, the main character, felt this way throughout the novel. ... Poor Heathcliff became the unfortunate victim of the hate and jealousy several of the wretched characters had on him, but after many years of torment bottled up inside of him, he sought to get revenge on the people who made him suffer. ... One way or the other, Heathcliff eventually got his revenge from Hindley and the other characters that mistreated him. ... When he turns into this vengeful character, he not only changes his appearance, his sentiments and thoughts become evil and he transforms into a horrible, pervert...

• Word Count: 2511
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The influence of the Victorian Era is evident through the behaviors and lifestyles of its characters. ... Heathcliff is often called "it". ... Heathcliff and Catherine discover themselves as they grow up. ... When Catherine decides to marry Edgar over Heathcliff, Heathcliff overhears Catherine say to Nelly ". . . it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff. . .... However, while Heathcliff transformed physically and mentally, one very important aspect of Heathcliff never changes a slight bit. ...

• Word Count: 613
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

The character Heathcliff in the novel Wuthering Heights, experiences both these feelings. In the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, the character of Heathcliff is often depicted as someone who is cruel and immoral, however, because of his neglectful childhood and his desire for love, the reader is sympathetic towards him. ... Because of this, Heathcliff quickly becomes the character with which the reader sympathizes. ... Heathcliff a man? ... However, more than that, the readers sympathize with him because they understand he is a complex character. ...

• Word Count: 1266
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Heathcliff Heathcliff is the central character in the novel, the mystery behind him and the desire to understand his motives is what keeps us as the readers intrigued. ... Heathcliff has only ever had one singular name which came from the dead son of the Earnshaws the fact his name "Heathcliff" may be thought of as a ghost adds to the supernatural, inhuman persona of his character. ... However his attempts to change are in vain and only cause him to suffer more humiliation the degradation he faces along with his wounded pride and resentfulness towards Hindley moulds his character ...

• Word Count: 1412
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the character Heathcliff is a satanic hero. A Satanic hero is a character that overcomes tremendous odds, using his wits and courage, but is evil and cruel. ... Heathcliff faced multitudinous obstacles. ... "Heathcliff's come back - Sirmon, 2 he is!" ... The character Heathcliff, in Wuthering Heights, is considered a satanic hero. ...

• Word Count: 529
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

At first prospective, the two characters from The Sound And The Fury and Wuthering Heights are very comparative and have a deep effect on their individual stories. ... Earnshaw love Heathcliff. ... Two of the main characters from Wuthering Heights, Catherine and Heathcliff's passion for one another seem to be the center of the novel. ... Certainly, Heathcliff may despise Linton more than any other character in the novel. ... Nonetheless, after performing a concentrated analysis of Jason and Heathcliff different characteristics, I have discovered convincing evidence of two unusually un...

• Word Count: 1118
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

In Emily Bronte's book Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is a character who takes vengeance to the extreme, allowing the revenge to fall not only upon those who he feels have wronged him, but on their children as well. ... Hindley, a few years older than Heathcliff, didn't like Heathcliff, and would beat him, sometimes for no reason. One day Hindley's father bought Hindley and Heathcliff each a colt. ... Since he despises Heathcliff, he makes Heathcliff live as a servant, and separates him from Catherine, sending her to play with the neighbor's children, Edgar and Isabella...

• Word Count: 807
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

How far do you agree that their relationship is a source of "little visible delight" for either character but is instead a destructive passion far removed from the traditional love story? Response Cathy and Heathcliff's relationship changes throughout the course of the novel as they have good times and bad times and this changes the way that we perceive the characters and the way they perceive each other either bringing them closer together or pushing them further apart. ... after he threw an iron weight at Heathcliff and ˜hit him in the breast'. ... This shows that she bel...

• Word Count: 1378
• Approx Pages: 6

This is seen when both Heathcliff and Catherine try to overcome numerous obstacles, Heathcliff's reactions to Catherine's death, and Heathcliff's long urge to seek revenge on Edgar. ... Even though the obstacles presented to the characters vary and have different results, all of the hardships that come between Catherine and Heathcliff have the same effect on both of them after the problem has passed.  In chapter 11, Edgar and Heathcliff had a conflict in the kitchen. Edgar punches Heathcliff in the throat and walks away in fear of the bigger Heathcliff. ... In a moment, Heath...

• Word Count: 911
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

She also displays an interesting parallel between how the external environment influences the internal mind as shown through the isolated character of Heathcliff. ... The houses mirror the personalities of their inhabitants; this is most evident by how Heathcliff is portrayed as recluse and a dark character. ... The characters that live at Wuthering Heights, especially Heathcliff, appear to have been made disturbed by the setting, whereas the characters at Thrushcross grange seem more sane. ... This is reinforced by the fact that people in the Victorian era had much stronger beliefs in nature ...

• Word Count: 1898
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

So the initial time we meet these two characters many differences and similarities can be noted. ... Heathcliff as a young boy and throughout his teenage years was described through Nelly's perception as a "sullen, patient child; hardened-, this is observed when Hindly disparages him and Heathcliff doesn't retaliate. ... Towards the end of Heathcliff's life he has become lonesome and obsessed with Cathy even though she has passed away. ... Michael Henchard and Heathcliff are especially dissimilar in their conduct at the commencement of the novels, Henchard being a foolish, thoug...

• Word Count: 918
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Charlotte Bronte's character, Mr. ... Fairfax "What in short, is his character?... Rochester's character is a more sympathetic Byronic hero than Heathcliff's. ... Heathcliff only realizes his in death. Heathcliff's character is fully consumed by his passions and spite until his death whereas Rochester realizes his lifelong dream while still alive. ...

• Word Count: 1508
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The primitive, rugged and unstrained life there trained her an obstinate, willful, apprehensive and cruel character. ... He was maltreated by unfair life, which made him an indomitable, fortitude but dumpish character. ... Heathcliff was a strong-minded person. ... Heathcliff was broke at that time. ... Although they had difference of sexual distinction, they were similar in character. ...

• Word Count: 2893
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

The book is based on human relationships and events which are mostly told by the characters themselves, so they convince us about their reality. We can get to know the various opinions of the characters so we can not decide easily. ... Because of these it is quite difficult to understand the relationship between the characters. ... The two characters are identified with one another. ... The language and the characters of that area are unintelligible or if intelligible, repulsive. ...

• Word Count: 1312
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Other characters in the novel also carry similarities to the Wuthering Heights but none as much as Heathcliff. ... The social class of this house has a great effect on Heathcliff and Catherine's relationship, and as individual characters. ... This newfound ambition changed the way her character would interact with Heathcliff. ... Heathcliff was of a lower class and the estate he lived in is what made his character evolve into the broken down, vengeful character he becomes. ... Each character in the novel was affected by the two estates, but the pain it caused Catherine and Heathcliff is ...

• Word Count: 1169
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography

His hate, however, of the other characters in the novel is what brings meaning to his life. ... Heathcliff and Hindley are at odds from an early age when Heathcliff is first taken into the Earnshaw manor. ... This character carefully acts out each idea with a mastermind that is fueled by rage. ... Heathcliff is undoubtedly a character motivated by hate. His hatred extends to each of his fellow characters in the novel in one way or another. ...

• Word Count: 739
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

As readers, we try to relate to the characters we read about. ... When Bronte created the main character of the book, Heathcliff, she had no interest in creating a character we could relate to. ... Heathcliff is such a diverse character in this novel that his character is able to repel and engage us. ... Heathcliff also treated other characters poorly. ... In summary, Bronte created a one of a kind character when she created Heathcliff. ...

• Word Count: 1378
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

However, this simple phrase is applicable to nothing if not the character of Heathcliff of the novel Wuthering Heights. Admittedly, the human race is forever focused on the characters who intentionally disturb and harm other and create damaging situations to their own avail. Despite, or maybe purely to spite, popular morals, the characters who display an utter disregard for the natural structure of human existence are usually the ones deemed iconic and the most thoroughly scrutinized. ... Now, if only Bronte's characters and their motivations were so simple. ... Or is Heathcliff simpl...

• Word Count: 1290
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

Although many passages of love are exposed in Wuthering Heights, the true genre of this book is tragedy due to the role of characters other than Heathcliff, the untraditional happy ending, and the death of the heroine early in the story. The role of several characters makes this novel a tragedy. ... None of these characters are heroic or essential to the love between Catherine and Heathcliff. ... Nearly the entire key characters die and most before the book is halfway over. ... Also, Heathcliff forced them to marry. ...

• Word Count: 862
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

One of the many characters in Bronte's Wuthering Heights who desired revenge was Edgar Linton. ... Of the characters in Wuthering Heights exacting revenge, Heathcliff is definitely the one who desires the need for revenge the most. ... When Isabella gives birth to her and Heathcliff's child, Heathcliff induces another plot for revenge. ... Many of the characters, not just the ones I have gone over, had a driving force for revenge. ... Emily Bronte used the revenge theme perfectly as it did enough to keep the reader interested and sometimes in anticipation of what would resolve of...

• Word Count: 1195
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The human race continually focuses on characters who intentionally harm others and create damaging situations for their own benefit. Despite popular morals, characters who display an utter disregard for the natural order of human life are characters who are often deemed iconic and are thoroughly scrutinized. If only the characters of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights were as simple as that. ... Catherine Earnshaw's iron will, immaturity, and quest for high-profile acceptance cause her character to star in the tragedy of a lost generation. ... These are two unique characters that must ...

• Word Count: 1690
• Approx Pages: 7

The characters in particular Heathcliff are rude and have constantly been referred to as "an incarnation of evil qualities." ... This word further emphasises the rudeness in the nature of the language as well as Bronte's rebellious, individualistic character. ... It is an insight into the nature of Bronte's character. ... Heathcliff also contributes to the narration of the novel. ... In chapter thirteen Isabella narrates and instantly there is increased emphasis on Heathcliff's demonic character. ...

• Word Count: 1046
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

So, although these are just characters, their emotions and actions will prove that they could not seem more real. There were many characters in this story, but there did not seem to be one that was worthy enough to be the best. Of all the characters, the one closest to being eligible has to be the father of Catherine and Hindley, Mr. ... Since it was very hard to decide on who the best character was, you can only imagine the agony it is going to take to decide on just one character that was liked the least. ... The raw emotions of many of the characters in this story only prove this to be cor...

• Word Count: 1602
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School