"He's more myself than I am. ... What Bronte gives us, however, keeping with the Gothic genre, is a cruel, heartless tyrant, consumed with hate, on a mission to destroy everyone who has ever crossed his path, including Cathy. ... I've fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice, and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for you!... " So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? ...

• Word Count: 855
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

Mary Shelley's gothic novel Frankenstein is a tale of an ambitious scientist who succeeds in creating life from deceased body parts. ... When Victor encounters the creature during his walk in the mountains, the creature confronts him and says, "I am thy creature, and I will be even mild and docile to my natural lord and king if thou wilt also perform thy part, the which thou owest me" (Shelley 96). ... However, Victor rejects any idea of love towards the creature, to which the creature responds, "If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, beca...

• Word Count: 1247
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Catherine proclaims that, " Heathcliff shall never know how I love him he's more myself than I am. ... Instead he curses her soul to haunt him every night to keep with Wuthering Heights's gothic style. ...

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

"Nelly, I am Heathcliff! He's always, always in my mind "not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being... "" "...because he's more myself than I am. ... Oh that's not what I intend - that's not what I mean!... "...Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! ...

• Word Count: 2324
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School