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Wuthering Heights Quotes Analysis

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Revealing Different Opinions While reading Wuthering Heights, the feelings towards characters shift. In one chapter there may be sympathy towards a character, where in the next chapter there may be no sympathy at all. From feeling bad for them, to wishing they would get what they deserve, there are many drastic changes throughout the novel. A great example is Heathcliff. The way Heathcliff was neglected and bullied as a child reflects onto his actions in adulthood. Heathcliff was brought up from a hard past, which makes it easy for people to sympathize for him. When Heathcliff first came to Wuthering Heights everyone referred to him as “it”. “The master tried to explain the matter; but he was really half dead with fatigue, and all that I could make out, amongst her scolding, was a tale of his seeing it starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool, where he picked it up and inquired for its owner” (Brontë 37). As a baby he was brought into a new home and was hated by mostly everyone for just being there and he was very unwelcomed. Cathy would spit on Heathcliff and the …show more content…

While Hindley was drunk, he accidentally dropped Hareton over the banister. Heathcliff had just arrived under the banister in time and caught him. Heathcliff thought about how he should have dropped Hareton after he caught him (Brontë 73-75). Heathcliff takes his anger out on people or on things that have nothing to do with the situation. Being abused and neglected by Hindley during his childhood is no excuse to hang Isabella’s dog by a handkerchief (Brontë 133-144). By capturing and imprisoning Cathy and Nelly, this shows that Heathcliff takes his anger out on other people and loves to see them just as miserable as he is. With the evidence of Heathcliff doing these terrible and harmful things, the way people feel sorry for him slowly

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Hindley is a notable character when it comes to portraying ignoble qualities. From the beginning of the novel, Hindley was set on destroying Heathcliff due to his uncontrollable jealousy over his father’s love for Heathcliff. The greater Hindley’s father’s affection grew towards Heathcliff, the stronger Hindley’s hatred and inclination for revenge grew. Hindley tormented Heathcliff regularly, with slanderous comments and physically abused him whenever Mr. Earnshaw was not present. This can be demonstrated though the following quote: “Take my colt, Gipsy, then!” said young Earnshaw.

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I have not broken your heart- you have broken it- and in breaking it, you have broken mine” (Bronte). This perfectly sums up a vicious cycle created in this novel. These characters are putting themselves I situations that will cause them to suffer, and as a result of their suffering, they inflict the same sensation on others. A perfect example being Heathcliff’s treatment of Hareton and Cathy, who, despite the abuse, are the few characters that are able to break out of this cycle. Similar situations can be found in Grendel.

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He points out the bad attributes in everyone and everything. In chapter one of the novel when talking about himself he says "If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me... my parents... They're nice and all--I'm not saying that--but

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Isabella Tejeda “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.” (Salinger 66) In between many of the themes found in the Catcher in the Rye, youth seems to be one that is mentioned in every chapter. Holden Caulfield is a seventeen year old boy who is obsessed with his youth, where he wants things to always stay the same.

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" Despite her love her Heathcliff, the setting of the book, specifically its time period and Heathcliff’s lack of a house at the location keeps him from marrying Catherine. Just like in “Good Country People,” the setting in Wuthering Heights achieves its significance by helping generate the primary conflict of the main characters. However, there is a difference in the role of the setting in “Good Country People” and Wuthering

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Heathcliff and Cathy see themselves as the one or maybe even the same as them . which is interesting considering how big of a deal everyone else makes about Heathcliff's differentness : his swarthy complexion and low social standing. Cathy does not care about none of the difference , her love gives them

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Heathcliff was tipped by his childhood and led down the path to become an abusive man who knows nothing about healthy relationships. He hangs his wife’s dogs and brags to her about it during an argument, he hit’s Nelly while she’s trying to stop him from beating Cathy, and he uses his son Linton as a tool for his own selfish gain, and abuses him while he’s on his deathbed. Yet the path too good or evil isn’t always as straight laced as one would believe.

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As Catherine and Heathcliff laughs at the Lintons, the Linton's dog chases after them and bites Catherine on the ankle. Because of her injury, Catherine is unable to get away. Mr. and Mrs. Linton are shocked at the appearance

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The lead character (Heathcliff from Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights) is interesting because his persona and character is opposite of what he is perceived in Bronte’s novel. The reader gets to step inside the thoughts of Heathcliff and have a clear understanding of his emotional and vulnerable side. His dark and masculine persona is twisted to a defenseless and powerless character. In Bronte’s novel, Heathcliff is aggressive and has a possessive nature to almost everyone in his life. However, in this short fiction, Heathcliff is the one being possessed by a spirit.

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In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, the reader can see the theme of revenge through the unraveling of Heathcliff's vindictive character, his marriage to Isabella and purchasing of Wuthering Heights, and the corrupting of his generation's offspring. In the novel, the author slowly reveals Heathcliff’s vindictive character by displaying situations where he acts with a twisted response. Lockwood is attacked by Heathcliff’s dogs at the beginning of the book. Heathcliff responds by saying, “They won’t meddle with persons who touch nothing.”

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In the villains moments of fury and revenge, their imaginations is unable to conceive methods of torture to equal their desires. Heathcliff reveals an utter lack of mercy when he tells Nelly after his marriage to Isabella: Tell your master, Nelly, that I never, in all my life , met with such an abject thing as she is,--she even disgraces the name of Linton…” (Bronte, Boston, 1957.) The sins for which the Byronic hero accepts responsibility are not those which society considers most reprehensible. This is why Heathcliff is considered to be a hero since he has a moral code, but different from society morals. Heathcliff’s remorse is for Cathy’s death, not for his cruelty to others:

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Despite Cathy’s insults, Hareton is willing to forgive her and offer a friendship between them. Cathy is willing to forgive the way Hareton behaved earlier, and a relationship develops between them. This changed attitude towards revenge and forgiveness that leads to their relationship gives the novel a happy ending, and ultimately forgiveness is the only element, which allows peace to be restored at Wuthering Heights. Paragraph

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