How Does Heathcliff Present Edgar In Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights, written by Emily Bronte, is a book about a passionate and destroying love between the two main characters,(possibly change this sentence) Catherine, a strong and beautiful young lady and Heathcliff, an adopted dark and handsome young man. Though they are meant to be together, their love was not an ordinary love; while both chose to make their love for each other more difficult than it needed to be, it is filled with wealth/status, revenge, and ghosts. Heathcliff, portrayed as a wild yet innocent and vulnerable at first, transformed into a handsome young man, who was filled with darkness, revenge, and manipulation due to the marriage of Catherine and Edgar, in order to elevate his status.(Revise this se9ntence) The culture
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As a child, Heathcliff was very different from the normal child of that society. (possibly take out because it is not necessary or add something related to prompt)Heathcliff was described as dark skinned, dirty, and unsophisticated. His only true friend was Catherine, who he cared about very much, for she was the only person who viewed him as normal. Though he was viewed as possibly even a lower class then Catherine, this did not bother either one of them, since they both were naive and young. Before introduced to the upper class, (Isabella and Edgar) they were both innocent and in love, whether they knew it or not. However, once Catherine met Isabella and Edgar, she realized love was not everything. In a conversation with Nelly, Catherine mentioned that she wished to marry Edgar, for she could not marry Heathcliff because he was a step down in class. Heathcliff overheard this part of the conversation, and decided to leave Wuthering Heights, before he could hear the rest of the conversation in which Catherine admitted she loved Heathcliff more than Edgar. After his rejection from Catherine’s love, Heathcliff understood that status was more important than love, and this was when he plotted to gain his power of status and inheritance changing his personality into poor moral traits. (doesn’t make sense,
As a child, Heathcliff was very different from the normal child of that society. (possibly take out because it is not necessary or add something related to prompt)Heathcliff was described as dark skinned, dirty, and unsophisticated. His only true friend was Catherine, who he cared about very much, for she was the only person who viewed him as normal. Though he was viewed as possibly even a lower class then Catherine, this did not bother either one of them, since they both were naive and young. Before introduced to the upper class, (Isabella and Edgar) they were both innocent and in love, whether they knew it or not. However, once Catherine met Isabella and Edgar, she realized love was not everything. In a conversation with Nelly, Catherine mentioned that she wished to marry Edgar, for she could not marry Heathcliff because he was a step down in class. Heathcliff overheard this part of the conversation, and decided to leave Wuthering Heights, before he could hear the rest of the conversation in which Catherine admitted she loved Heathcliff more than Edgar. After his rejection from Catherine’s love, Heathcliff understood that status was more important than love, and this was when he plotted to gain his power of status and inheritance changing his personality into poor moral traits. (doesn’t make sense,