In Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights," one of the most important motifs is how nature versus nurture impacts love. In this scene from Wuthering Heights, we are first introduced to the complex and intriguing character of Catherine through Lockwood's observations of the room. ... Catherine's presence lingered within the Wuthering Heights household due to Heathcliff's necessity to keep her spirit around. ... Catherine's death serves as a symbol of how she strayed from her natural ways and conformed to what society believed was love, which only led to pain and suffering b...

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"Wuthering Heights" is a Victorian novel regarding the lives of the Earnshaws and Lintons. ... In the Classic Novel "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, the characters Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw display a classic example of this powerful emotion. "Wuthering Heights" examines a passionate and overwhelming love between its central characters, Cathy and Heathcliff. ... Catherine and Heathcliff in Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" travel an intense and passionate road. ... I wouldn't consider ""Wuthering Heights"" to be a romantic novel but love was a very important part of this ...

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Is Wuthering Heights Romance or Tragedy? Wuthering Heights is a Victorian novel regarding the lives of the Earnshaws and Lintons. ... 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. ... Additionally, our heroine dies early in the novel. ...

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Emily Bronte writes a story of polar opposites in her tale Wuthering Heights. ... His hate, however, of the other characters in the novel is what brings meaning to his life. ... Hindley's gambling debts put him in perfect position for Heathcliff to use his hatred to seek revenge when he takes up Hindley's debts, securing himself as the heir of Wuthering Heights. ... Instead he curses her soul to haunt him every night to keep with Wuthering Heights's gothic style. ... As a fitting end to the novel, Heathcliff dies when there is no one left to hate. ...

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Born of a time of Victorian antiquity and chauvinistic domination, "Ellis Bells" Wuthering Heights opened the gateways to views of society that before had never even been imagined. ... In the novel, she expresses these tendencies, as Catherine, at a younger age, did not hold the propriety of the women at Thrushcross Groves, and also did not receive the education as such. ... The young lovers take a step back and approach life at Wuthering Height from a new eye. There token rejection of the past, as through there relationship, leads not only to the civilization of Cathy and the education of Har...

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I, and many other people with whom I've conferred, would consider Wuthering Heights a romance novel. ... In Wuthering Heights, a lot of people would consider the antagonist to be Heathcliff because of all of the bad things he does throughout the novel. ... In Wuthering Heights, Bronte made things a bit different. ... After overhearing such stuff, Heathcliff left Wuthering Heights without saying anything to anybody and left no traces of himself. ... In Wuthering Heights Catherine and Heathcliff's love is a direct challenge to those social forces of family and class which tyrannize, o...

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By doing this they probably alienated Heathcliff and made him feel isolated from everyone in Wuthering Heights. ... Later on in the novel, the two visit Thrushcross Grange and get very different reactions from the Lintons. ... Heathcliff departs from Wuthering Heights suddenly and believes Cathy no longer loves him as when she is comparing the two men to Nelly, Heathcliff overhears the part of conversation where Cathy says, ˜It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff.' Again this shows how destructive their relationship is as it causes Heathcliff to flee from Wuthering Heights and no...

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Response Throughout Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff and Catherine's profound love for each other and their relationship as soulmates is reflected upon the decisions and actions made by the two. ... After Edgar Linton dies and Heathcliff goes to Thrushcross Grange to take Catherine to Wuthering heights, he speaks to Ellen once again. ... Heathcliff starts out by taking Isabella from Edgar by marrying her, knowing that Edgar would disown her and proceeding to imprison and abuse her in Wuthering Heights. ... Heathcliff wanted Linton to marry young Catherine so that he...

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Throughout Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff and Catherine's profound love for each other and their relationship as soulmates is reflected upon the decisions and actions made by the two. ... After Edgar Linton dies and Heathcliff goes to Thrushcross Grange to take Catherine to Wuthering heights, he speaks to Ellen once again. ... Heathcliff starts out by taking Isabella from Edgar by marrying her, knowing that Edgar would disown her and proceeding to imprison and abuse her in Wuthering Heights. ... Heathcliff wanted Linton to marry young Catherine so that he would af...

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Catherine and Heathcliff's passion for one another seems to be the centre of Wuthering Heights, given that it is stronger and more lasting than any other emotion displayed in the novel, and that it is the source of most of the major conflicts that structure the novel's plot. ...

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Emily Bronte's novel, "Wuthering Heights," covers all of the requisite themes necessary to earn its place in the Gothic genre: villainous behavior, helpless heroine, and horrific weather all in a decrepit, haunted setting. Conversely, Wuthering Heights, is most often described as one of the most tragic and heart breaking love stories ever told. ... Heathcliff truly believes that his love for Cathy is all consuming and the driving force behind everything he does throughout the novel. ...

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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. ... Two of the main characters from Wuthering Heights, Catherine and Heathcliff's passion for one another seem to be the center of the novel. ... Heathcliff, disappointed and saddened, runs away from Wuthering Heights and returns soon after Catherine and Edgar's marriage. ... Now that he is in charge of Wuthering Heights, he declared that Heathcliff would no longer be allowed an education. ... I was timid about attemp...

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In Wuthering Heights, Catherine and Heathcliffe show that they are the same person because of the obsessive manner in which they treat each other. ... Through the entire novel Heathcliffe and Catherine do not share love with each other, but an obsession with each other, which gives evidence that Catherine is correct. ...

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In Wuthering Heights, author Emily Bronte cleverly uses the literary technique of foils to highlight the various features of her characters' personalities. Throughout the novel, the minor character of Edgar Linton acts as a foil to the protagonist, Heathcliff. ... This contrasting appearance makes readers perceive Heathcliff to be the dark or evil soul in the novel. ... Heathcliff and Edgar's behavior towards other characters in the novel is also diverse and draws parallels with their physical demeanor. ... He hangs Isabella's puppy dog and leaves her without a place to stay ...

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As is the case with the majority of the novel, these chapters are narrated to us by Nelly, who makes for an excellent narrator due to her ordinariness. ... It is palpable that she is unhappy at Wuthering Heights. She realises her role as a scapegoat in Heathcliff's disconcerting revenge on Edgar, and longs to be back at Thrushcross Grange, "[her] delightful home," which she sets against the feral and boorish Heights. Wuthering Heights itself reflects Heathcliff's dark and wild nature. ... It would appear that Wuthering Heights has been corrupted by the tragedies enacted ther...

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pernatural - Supernatural events happen in the very beginning of the novel and continue until the very end. ... These themes and instances are tied to a spirituality and life-after-death theme in the novel. ... Heathcliff hears this speech, and he leaves Wuthering Heights, not to return for three years.2) Nelly, I see now, you think me a selfish wretch; but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married we should be beggars? ... Heathcliff says similar things throughout the novel. 4) I'd as soon put that little canary into the park on a winter's day, as recommend you to be...

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