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    Catherine Earnshaw Catherine Earnshaw is the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw and his wife; Catherine falls powerfully in love with Heathcliff‚ the orphan Mr. Earnshaw brings home from Liverpool. She was born at Wuthering Heights and was raised with her brother Hindley. Catherine loves Heathcliff so intensely that she claims they are the same person but does not marry him because Hindley has degraded him after their father’s death so her desire for social advancement motivates her to marry Edgar Linton

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    Mrs. Catherine Linton "Nelly‚ I see now you think me a selfish wretch; but did it never strike you that if Heathcliff and I married‚ we should be beggars? whereas‚ if I marry Linton I can aid Heathcliff to rise‚ and place him out of my brother’s power.’" Wuthering Heights is a Victorian novel set within the heart of the English Country with characters just as captivating as the scenery portrayed. On of those characters is Mrs. Catherine Linton. Well intended‚ but having the wrong idea

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    “Cathy is a typical 19th century heroine.” With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel and relevant contextual information‚ give your response to the above view. Nineteenth century English heroines acted within their social environment as their roles within civilisation saw them becoming a good wives and mothers and before that‚ kind and caring daughters. Their path in life was to care for their family and to provide support for the head of the household. A typical woman in Victorian

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    Catherine earnshaw’s death is arguably the most significant event in the novel‚ not only does it signify an enhancement in Heathcliff’s passion for catherine but it also marks the climax in the Novel and further assembles the themes associated with other characters. Catherine being torn between her husband and the love of her life must also bear a child which proves to be too much for a single person‚ driving her to sickness and eventually death. Good understanding. C’s death in the most significant

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    Love is considered ordinate when two individuals have deep affections and respect for one another. In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë‚ Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw have deep and sincere love for each other. They spent most of their childhood with one another. The love that Heathcliff and Catherine experience is pure and true. They both contributed different yet special things towards their distinctive relationship. The trust and affection between them would have made the greatest love one

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    Hareton Earnshaw is the only male character in Wuthering Heights who can be called a hero. With reference to appropriately selected parts of the novel‚ and relevant external contextual information on the nature of the hero‚ give your response to the above view. A hero in the dictionary is defined as “the chief character in a book‚ play or film who is typically identified with good qualities and with whom the reader is expected to sympathise”‚ while this simple definition of a hero may be sufficient

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    In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights‚ the romance between Heathcliff and Catherine drives the story and causes untold pain and suffering for everyone in the story. Heathcliff’s motivations as a character are often unclear and left up for interpretation‚ especially after his beloved Catherine’s death. Towards the end of the novel there is a scene that is used to great success to showcase Heathcliff’s mental state before his death. However‚ it does much more than that. Through closely examining Bronte’s

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    In this novel‚ Catherine’s death is seen as a release from suffering – discuss. Catherine Ernshaw’s life was one of suffering interspersed by short periods of content. The cause suffering cannot be attributed to any one aspect or person in her life but rather to a combination of various factors‚ partially self-inflicted but mainly due to other individual’s control of her life and to the wider pressures of societies’ expectations of a female both in the 1840s when it was written‚ and in 1801 when

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    Story of Catherine and Heathcliff began when Catherine’s father goes on a trip and instead of bringing back gifts he brings back a gypsy boy with dark skin and even darker hair. While others hated the newcomer‚ Catherine took a liking to him right away and they became inseparable. But after an injury Catherine or “Cathy” was forced to reside at the Linton’s‚ a pristine family who re-molded Cathy into a well mannered‚ well behaved‚ well spoiled girl. At her stay with the Linton’s Catherine learned

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    This story has two separate social classes that each one of these characters come from‚ Catherine Earnshaw Linton who grew up in a middle class English countryside cottage called Wuthering Heights‚ Isabella Linton Heathcliff who grew up in an upper class English society in a mansion called Thrushcross Grange. The way in which‚ Bronte sets up these character and the environment give you a great image of what the characters are going to be like. Wuthering Heights is a dwelling characterized by fiery

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