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    I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low‚ I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that‚ not because he’s handsome‚ Nelly‚ but because he’s more myself than I am (86). Catherine admits to Ellen that she loves Heathcliff but cannot think of marrying him because he has been degraded by Hindley. Heathcliff hears this speech‚ and he leaves Wuthering Heights‚ not to return for

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    A Presentation of the Personalities of Heathcliff and Murray Kempton once admitted‚ ‘No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.’ The human race continually focuses on characters who intentionally harm others and create damaging situations for their own benefit. Despite popular morals‚ characters who display an utter disregard for the natural order of human life are characters who are often deemed iconic and are thoroughly scrutinized. If only the characters of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

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    23 November 2010 Heathcliff and Kurtz/ Obsession The Characters‚ Heathcliff in Brontes’ novel Wuthering Heights and Kurtz‚ in Conrads’ novel Heart of Darkness share interesting qualities. Both characters are prideful‚ passionate‚ menacing and brooding. Each has been referred to as an “evil genius” at times. Both display qualities of greed and a desire for power and control. These men throughout their individual stories are engulfed in a world of their own. Heathcliff because of his strong

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    Heathcliff and Edgar Linton Like ‘moonbeam’ compared to ‘lightning’ or as different as ‘frost’ is to ‘fire’‚ Heathcliff and Edgar Linton signify the stark contrast between nature and civilisation. When Catherine Earnshaw says to Nelly ‘Heathcliff is more myself than I am’ she is referring to their natures‚ the natural inclination that they both have. It is this similarity‚ this natural identity that represents Heathcliff one side of a polarity that opposes nature to civilisation‚ inhuman to social

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    character that suffers and responds in a tragic way to injustice is Heathcliff. Heathcliff is brought to a house where they had money‚ and he was a homeless kid. The difference in social status led other kids in the house to mistreat him‚ and make fun of him. He was forced into isolation by Hindley due to his physical appearance. Consequently‚ Heathcliff suffers in different manners throughout the novel‚ the main one being solitude. Heathcliff responds to such injustice by making the life of those who mistreated

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    Thrushcross Grange‚ specifically the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff and the issues that arise from it. In this case‚ the relationships and personalities of the adults‚ Catherine Earnshaw‚ Heathcliff‚ and Edgar Linton‚ are mimicked with their children‚ Catherine Linton‚ Hareton Earnshaw‚ and Linton Heathcliff‚ but only to a certain extent. At first‚

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    Heathcliff is an interesting individual with several adjectives that describe him. Although he has several descriptors‚ the majority of them are negative. Even though he is the main character in the novel‚ most people would agree he is negative and gloomy. In a survey that conducted by Dr. Brooks two thirds of the surveyors sympathized with Catherine rather than the one third that sympathized with Heathcliff. When asked Dr. Brooks class found it hard to give any positive adjectives to describe him

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    "Nelly‚ I am Heathcliff" – With this unusually leading statement‚ Catherine Earnshaw is able to profess her love for Heathcliff‚ the outcast and rugged villain of the novel Wuthering Heights. However‚ not only is this just a declaration of love‚ this statement also allows Emily Brontë to open a door to a world of much wider and deeper issues. She raises the idea of how there can be no place for one’s true and authentic self in this over-civilised‚ bourgeois nineteenth century world‚ and depicts both

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    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 has ever seen. Heathcliff and Catherine’s love would be ordinate is because although

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    The 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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