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Wuthering Heights Trauma

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In late 1801, a man named Lockwood rented the a manor called Thrushcross Grange in the moors of England. After meeting Heathcliff, a wealthy yet cruel man who lived not far from Thrushcross Grange, in an ancient manor called Wuthering Heights, he was filled with curiosity and wanted to discover why things were the way they were there at the moors. In that crazed, stormy countryside, Lockwood asked his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him Heathcliff’s story, and after consenting, Lockwood wrote down his recollections of her tale in his diary. Trapped within liminal space, Heathcliff, the main protagonist of Wuthering Heights were forced to suffer trauma and deceit as he tried to create a perfect universe to live in within his mind to escape …show more content…

As a young girl, she worked as a servant at Wuthering Heights for Mr. Earnshaw and his family. After Mr. Earnshaw travelled to London, he returned one day with a dark skinned gypsy boy whom he would call Heathcliff. At first, Mr. Earnshaw’s birth children, Hindley and Catherine, felt threatened by the new child- Hindley mostly who thought he was being replaced with a new son. But Catherine ended up bonding with the boy and the two soon grow inseparable, spending their days playing on the moors, becoming soul mates. Even though Catherine and Mr. Earnshaw loved Heathcliff, the others at Wuthering Heights were not so accepting. Hindley would constantly torment and torture his new ‘brother,’ treating him like a slave. Because of this, Heathcliff grew to depend on Catherine, since she was his one and only true friend. However, this all changed, creating a major turning point within the …show more content…

Being doppelgangers to each other, not only were they the same- they were soulmates. Completing each other, Heathcliff was only able to be himself around her. However, one day as the two were playing in the moors, they snuck up on the Lintons at Thrushcross Grange. Startling the family, Catherine was attacked by dogs and was forced to stay at the manor with the Lintons for weeks so that she would be able to heal. Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering heights as entities are oppositional binaries: Wuthering Heights is animalistic and raw. The children and adults who lived there were wild and rabid, where the individuals who lived at Thrushcross Grange were very proper and wealthy. Thrushcross Grange itself was very tidy and fancy in comparison to Wuthering Heights. During her stay, Catherine was primped and taught how to act as a ‘proper lady.’ After Catherine returned to Wuthering Heights donned in a dress and with her hair all crimped, Heathcliff could not believe his eyes. His one true friend - his one true love- had changed and left him behind. Feeling alone once again, he shut her out and fell victim to his own mind and

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Hindley’s evil nature is further evident after Mr. Earnshaw dies and Hindley becomes Heathcliff’s guardian. He uses this new foreseen power to avenge and enslave Heathcliff for stealing his father’s love from him, tantalizing him for the better half of his childhood until Heathcliff finally escapes his tormentors relentless grasp. The same ignoble and vengeful characteristics can be seen again after the birth of Hindley’s son Hareton. He blames his son for his wife Frances’ death as she died during childbirth, and because of this torments and abuses his child as he did with Heathcliff. He becomes and alcoholic which causes him to have unforeseen bursts of rage, usually ending in him harming the child physically.

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In Wuthering Heights, a good majority of the characters suffer in many ways. Anorexia, idiocy, and abuse are prevalent throughout this story. It is ultimately these sources that lead to character’s abundant psychological suffering. To name a few, Isabella enters a loveless marriage, the death of Hindley’s wife, and, above all, Heathcliff and Catherine have a constant back and forth of blaming the other for their pain (Baldys). Evan at the end of Catherine’s life, Heathcliff comments, “Misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it.

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In Chapter 10, Heathcliff wants to get revenge by marrying Isabella Linton to steal Edgar's land. Catherine states, "you are too prone to covet your neighbour's goods" (99, Brontë). The Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange scenes are integral to Heathcliff's goals. The weather in Wuthering Heightsforeshadows certain events and keeps the viewer engaged in the story.

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He decides by marrying Isabella his plan to own both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange will come to fruition; marriage is used as a weapon of revenge in this

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Mr Earnshaw refers to Heathcliff as “It” this could become very degrading for Heathcliff as he wasn’t treated like a human, in contrast to this, this was on the first night of him being in the Earnshaw residence which means that they hadn’t got to know him yet. Heathcliff’s relationship with Mr Earnshaw would of been one of the things that made his childhood more bearable as we are told that Heathcliff became Mr Earnshaw favourite child, we are told by Nelly Dean that she considered the relationship sinister as he become more loved by Mr Earnshaw than Hindley. Moreover we are also told that Mrs Earnshaw was wary of the child and didn’t want to keep him, this could of made Heathcliff childhood bitter by knowing that not everyone wanted him there. His relationship with Hindley Earnshaw may have made his childhood very bitter as he was physically and verbally abused by him. We are told that after a few days, “Miss Cathy and he were now very thick; but Hindley hated him” this show us that Hindley started hating him from the start, this would later continue into adulthood.

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Heathcliff personifies the role of a savage and a cultured gentleman. Heathcliff’s upbringing was tainted from the begging, he was a parentless gypsy orphan that was adopted by and brought out to the moors. As a child he was very unkempt, but unlike most children he never outgrew this trait. When Catherine returns from Thrushcross Grange, she immediately

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Cally Konecki Mr. Wierzal 14 April 2023 Honors English 10 Isabella Linton and Catherine Earnshaw are character foils of one another. While both are romantically involved with Mr. Heathcliff, Catherine’s personality is nearly the exact opposite of Isabella’s. Isabella is meek, delicate, and stubborn, while Catherine is loud, confident, and wild. Catherine feels fiery passion while Isabella pines slowly.

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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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Throughout the novel, Nelly acts as the voice of reason to many of her mistresses, although sometimes their actions have consequences. For example, Nelly encourages Isabella to renounce her love for Heathcliff. Nelly knows that Edgar would never approve of him as her husband, but Isabella disregards her advice and seals her elopement with Heathcliff anyway. Their marriage provoked the tension that had remained after Catherine 's decision to elope with Edgar rather than Heathcliff. Brontë scholars believe that Nelly is one of the only characters in Wurthering Heights that has the power to "shape the plot" by the fact that she has been a support to a handful of the characters throughout the novel.

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Firstly the obsessive love between Catherine and Heathcliff. Catherine claims that her love for Heathcliff “resembles the eternal rocks beneath –a source of little visible delight, but necessary” (73). She tells her housekeeper “Nelly, I am Heathcliff –he’s always, always in my

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The interesting thing about the novel is that the characters that die usually do so after living relatively short lives. In his article, “Sickness and Health in Wuthering Heights,” Charles Lemon states, “When I last re-read Wuthering Heights, I was struck afresh by the brevity of the lives of most of the characters and by the poor health which they had to endure.” This statement supports the idea that the characters do not live long, healthy lives, but rather brief and sickly ones. The sickness and death starts at the beginning of the novel, and just continues from there. First, we have the illness and death of Mr. Earnshaw, father of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw, and adopted father of orphaned protagonist Heathcliff.

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Ghosts appear throughout Wuthering Heights, as well as in most other works of Gothic fiction. What is really interesting is that Bronte presents these apparitions in such a way that makes their existence ambiguous. Catherine’s spirit appears to Lockwood in chapter three: “I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, ‘Let me in – let me in!’… I’m come home: I’d lost my way on the moor!’”

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