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Thrushcross Grange Analysis

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From savage to civilization, the main and greatest contrast in the whole novel. “Wuthering Heights”, written by Emily Brontë, took place in a small village, called Yorkshire, during the 18th Century. This novel contains two main locations, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. This novel is considered to be a very tragic story of “love”, were Catherine and Heathcliff loved each other, but their love never developed as a relationship. Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange were completely different in one way; the characters in each of the setting were rich, but their names said it all. Wuthering Heights was a wild place and it was full of passion. In contrast, Thrushcross Grange is a place full of good manners and civilized people. Heathcliff …show more content…

“Take yourself and your dusters off! When company are in the house, servants don´t commence scouring and cleaning in the room where they are […] She supposing Edgar could not see her, snatched the cloth from my hand, and pinched me, with a prolonged wrench, very spitefully on my arm […] She stomped her foot, wavered a moment, and then, irresistibly impelled by a naughty spirit within her, slapped me on the cheek a stinging blow that filled both eyes with water” [page 51] Catherine had “lady” lessons with the Linton´s and Edgar thought that Catherine was a good-mannered lady by this point, but Catherine showed her wild side; the side of the moors. Even though Catherine wanted to impress Edgar with her personality, she broke the chains and liberated what she felt. “I´m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills… Open the window again wide, fasten it open! Quick, why don´t you move” [page 92] Catherine was in a very weak condition in Thrushcross Grange and she wanted to see the moors through the window. She remembered the time she spent in the moors with Heathcliff, her good and old times. No matter how much changes she had, there was a strong breeze of savagery in her heart, meaning that, she still breathed the air of Wuthering Heights and the

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Indeed, we see how as the narrator devotes an increasing amount of time with Charlotte, he becomes detached from his surroundings: he ignores his friends’ promptings and eventually progresses to a point where he is unaware of both time and location, that only today in introspection can he “recall that [they] were in [his] room” the day Maurice returns (197). Towards the end, the narrator describes how his clothes and Charlottes’ becomes “indistinguishable”, being “thrown over every chair” in the study room (191). Isolated and devoting so much time in this “cocoon” of the relationship, the narrator seems to lose part of his rational and orderly self and becomes more similar to the disorganized and anti-social Charlotte. The descriptions of Charlotte’s room and the imagery of the “cocoon” highlight this sense

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The Great Gatsby Compared to Wuthering Heights The roaring 20s, glamorous and carefree. The unforgiving, mysterious 19th century moors of England. While these times and places might seems vastly different, the stories taking place within them are very much alike. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is set in the 1920s of New York City and tells the story of the wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for Daisy Buchanan. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte takes place on the moors of 1th century Yorkshire, and describes Heathcliff’s revenge story brought on by his strong love for Catherine.

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 Catherine’s parents are described as unpretentious people. Her father was merely a clergyman making a humble living, and her mother “a woman of common plain sense”. Neither pushed Catherine to be anything she didn’t want to be or to do anything she didn’t want to do. Austen wrote, “Mrs. Moreland, who did not insist on her daughters being accomplished in spite of incapacity of distaste, allowed her to leave off.” Catherine’s mother simply let her stop piano lessons because

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Practice Free Response Questions Heathcliff was an orphan who was brought to live at Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. Since he was from wild nature, he had a temper so Linton and Heathcliff often had quarrels. However, his extraordinary powers of will to acquire Wuthering Heights turned him into evil, he used that position to revenge Linton. The sudden change of Heathcliff’s position gave him confidence, conceit, and greed.

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“‘I hate you to be fidgeting in MY presence,' exclaimed [Catherine] imperiously, not allowing her guest time to speak: she had failed to recover her equanimity since the little dispute with Heathcliff. ' I'm sorry for it, Miss Catherine,' was my [Nelly] response; and I proceeded assiduously with my occupation. She, supposing Edgar could not see her, snatched the cloth from my hand, and pinched me, with a prolonged wrench, very spitefully on the arm” (Brontë Find pg but Chapter 8). Catherine is under the belief that Edgar could not see her as she is abusing Nelly Dean, so she continues her

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It shows how foolish she is to believe that one of the many Gothic novels she reads would actually come to life in the Tilney’s house. Her wild thoughts become so strong that she begins to question if General Tilney murdered his own wife. Catherine says that General Tileny “certainly had been an unkind husband” and that “he must have been dreadfully cruel to her” (181). Anyone else would be crazy to have these suspicions of the General, but Catherine wants to satisfy her imagination by creating a Gothic novel story line during her stay at the Abbey. Just because he is not the nicest man does not mean he would commit murder to the woman he loved.

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When she does this and ends up straying away from her "masculinity", Catherine is shown to abide by the expectations that were applied to women for them to be considered "feminine". In addition, she realises that being so immersed in Gothic novels was so childish when she gets caught by Henry when she was sneaking into Mrs. Tilney's bedroom where she then runs away into her room embarrassed by herself and thinking there's no more hope left for her since she's "disappointed" Henry. In the end, both Henry and Catherine end up getting married and it's shown that although Catherine at first was tomboyish, she ends up surrendering to the expectations of being feminine and ends up getting married despite being against it at first. On the other hand, it is the complete opposite for Moll Cutpurse. Rather than being a failure of a typical Gothic heroine, she breaks these stereotypes by cross-dressing.

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Reflecting the atmospheres of the two houses, the dogs in the novel range from aggressive guard dogs at Wuthering Heights to harmless lap dogs at Thrushcross Grange. In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, dogs serve not only to intensify a scene or to foreshadow, but also to highlight Heathcliff’s animalistic characteristics. The dogs’ behaviors and characteristics during a scene often highlight

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Nelly Dean and The Rebellion Against The Heirarchy Wurthering Heights rebelled against the belief at the time that servants are socially below their masters in the social hierarchy. Nelly, the servant of Thurcross Grange, proves to have more influence on the plot and her masters than many of those who are above her in the social hierarchy. The interdependence among the masters and the confided servant Nelly is an important part of Emily Brontë 's novel Wurthering Heights. Although Nelly is only a help to the other characters, she proves to have a strong influence on her masters and the decisions they make throughout the story. Like many novels during the Victorian era, the wealthy masters and mistresses were the key characters of their

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