" Being upset with the news of Catherine's marriage to Edgar he tries to hurt them both by marrying Edgar's sister, Isabella. Even though he doesn't love or even like her, instead in this one-sided love affair Heathcliff takes advantage of the innocent girls feelings to carry out his obsession for revenge. He ends up ruining her life and inheriting her fortune. In marrying her he accomplishes two parts of his plan, revenge and power. Even after Catherine is deceased he still wishes to be with her "Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" Heathcliff's obsession for Catherine is seen one last time when < quote of him being asked to be buried with Catherine>. Heathcliff had been miss treated by his foster brother Hindley, and is now obsessed by his thoughts of revenge: "I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!" (136). He is able to turn the tables on Hindley and makes him his slave. When Hindley is drunk he gambles his property to Heathcliff leaving him broke and Heathcliff holding all the cards. He even tries steeling away Hindley's son, who he later ends up raising. He again tries to get back at Edgar Linton, by not only marrying his sister but also taking away his daughter and forcing her to marry his son. As the book progresses he becomes more and more dark and evil. His obsession for revenge ruins the lives he touches, and his acts effect the younger generation of Wuthering Heights. .
Catherine also has the same obsession of love for Heathcliff. "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff" Catherine has just told her housekeeper that she has made up her mind to marry Edgar Linton, although she is well aware that her love for him is bound to change as time passes, and that she hopes to learn to love him.
It is passion that causes her to do such thing. ... Passion overwhelms reason. ... Passion takes over rational desire. ... They saw reason as the ruling principle of life and the key to progress and perfection. ... When he talked about how Phaedra's hidden passion had consumed her from within, he also stated that revealing one's passion will still kill oneself. ...
For Marx, human history is driven by the forces of continuous class struggles that will eventually lead to a historic revolution in which a new ruling class will arise. ... Marx states that, "the ruling ideas of each age" have always been dictated by the beliefs of the ruling class (Marx, 267). Therefore, in Marxism religion does not offer universal truth because it sways from the exploitation of the ruling class over the masses. ... According to Nietzsche, swaying away from the moral values of historic man means divorcing humanity from the "ascetic ideal," which limits our...
Ethnic crimes were linked with the need of the ruling whites to be either superior to someone, or to maintain their income from the oppressed. ... So far every movement we have studied has involved an ethnic group that was needed and/or welcomed in their oppressed state by the ruling power (the exception is women, and I believe women are needed everywhere for obvious reasons). Black slaves were brought to America, and the Native Americans were abundant when the white ruling class was established. ... Every generation alive at the time was affected, and I honestly believe it created a new passi...
Plato believed that justice was the advantage of the stronger, which to him was the control of the ruling body of the city by being master over the people and punishing any who broke the laws set down by the regime.... He believed that the ruling regime must be most skilled at guarding the city with the interest of the city in their convictions. ... He wanted a regime based on order and reason, not on the passions of people that he felt a democracy permitted its people to do. ... Plato feels that personal desires of democratic man is one of passion and self interest of money and personal ga...
The people that make up his imaginary society have no conception of love or any other passion, and actually scorn the idea. ... Our society cannot exist without passion because it is the foundation of all relationships. ... From the time that the embryos are in each bottle to the time of death for each person, science is acting as a controller, ruling over every individual life. ... Yet both kinds of truth are united in the passion that an individual might feel for them. ...
These virtues are divided into two categories: moral, which correspond to the rational ruling over the irrational part of the soul, and intellectual, which correspond to the rational section. The former is the state of undergoing a passion by habit and controlling it by reason and the latter is the state of contemplating the truths and principles of reason that accompany our behavior. ...
