All families in Wuthering Heights, with exception of Hareton and Cathy II, are characterised by their utter dysfunction. ... We see this reflected in Wuthering Heights as it is Nelly Dean who raises Catherine and Hareton, due to both their mothers dying at childbirth. The relationship between Cathy and Mr Earnshaw in Wuthering Heights is presented as somewhat turbulent and ultimately rather dysfunctional. ... In connection to Wuthering Heights, we are again faced with a scene where there should be love, but in fact, all we see and feel is hatred. ... "Delirious rage" perhaps could ...

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Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is known as a great love story because it is the central theme: the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff. This love is the reason for the tragic development of the story; all the other themes like hate, revenge and death (among others) derive from this love between the two main characters. ... Most characters in the novel also suffer the love or lack' of love. ... From this point there is an on going conflict between love and hate, which lasts until the end of the novel. ... Reason, Wuthering Heights vs. ...

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Wordsworth's Lucy is a parallel to Heathcliff's own conflict with the visions and hauntings of his eternal Catherine. ... These three poems coincide with the chronological telling of Heathcliff's misery laden story in Wuthering Heights. ... When he first sees a glimpse of Catherine's real character, at a point when she could not conceal it, he says: "You've made me afraid and ashamed of you, I'll not come here again- (Wuthering Heights, p. 77). ... Catherine says to Nelly: "Nelly, I am Heathcliff-he's always, always in my mind-not as a pleasure, any more ...

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If only the characters of Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights were as simple as that. Set on the mysterious and gloomy Yorkshire moors in the nineteenth century, Wuthering Heights gives the illusion of lonesome isolation as a stranger, Mr. ... Earnshaw brought him into Wuthering Heights, a "dirty, ragged, black-haired child"(45; ch.7). ... Even the conflicting ideas his sheer appearance resonates result in a complexity. ... It is difficult and possibly wrong to consider Emily Bronte's classic, Wuthering Heights, as a worldly book. ...

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Throughout Emily Bronte's 'Wuthering Heights,' she shows how revenge is caused by prejudice and jealousy and leads to further disharmony. ... Heathcliff is a character caught between love and hate, Bronte uses Cathy's sleight to force him to focus on his revenge instead of her. ... Dumas's resolution for the character of Dantes shows how his aversion to damaging innocents creates a far more positive outcome. ... Overall, in Wuthering Heights, religion is used to portray another manner in which revenge has led to the ultimate failure of Heathcliff. ... Bronte's dep...

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Because of these tragic events, both canonical authors became known for their depictions of a chronically lonely, tragic and devilish character known as a Byronic hero. In Charlotte's "Jane Eyre" the part of Byronic hero is played by Rochester and in "Wuthering Heights," Emily's literary work, Heathcliff is nearly the definition of the Byronic hero. ... Along with this sometimes-violent moodiness, a dark physical representation of both characters classifies as characteristically Byronic. ... These secrets are usually a product of the characters problems while trav...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate