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    until neither of the families can get rid of him. Hindley begins to feel a form of rivalry with Heathcliff right from the start. He does not understand why his father has gone through the trouble of finding a son out on the streets when he had one at home waiting for him. Hindley is marked with the aura that his father does not love him and that he is not good enough for his father ever since Heathcliff showed up. Hindley begins to make Heathcliff’s life miserable‚ as to mark his territory and belittle

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    characters. Two of the major characters‚ Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff‚ encounter a crisis of conscience which are significant to the plot. Catherine Earnshaw suffers a major crisis of conscience between two men. Her heart tells her to do one thing‚ but her mind tells her another. At the start of chapter nine‚ Catherine accepts marriage to Edgar Linton. She really does love him‚ however‚ she knows that her heart belongs to Heathcliff. She begins describing herself as a sinner who does not belong

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    streets. Mr. Earnshaw names him Heathcliff and begins to raise him like his own son. This causes tension in the family. Mr. Earnshaw begins to favor the stranger over his own son. This causes Hindley to become jealous of Heathcliff. As Hindley ’s hate for Heathcliff grew stronger‚ Catherine ’s love for him grew even stronger. This causes life at Wuthering Heights to be unbearable. The family turns against Hindley and sends him away to school and Heathcliff takes the place as the son of the

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    England could not accept or nurture-unbridled love causing blind rage and an almost unquenchable desire for revenge. Heathcliff is blindly in love with Catherine and is consumed with the fires of hatred and malice when he is unable to marry Catherine. His only driving force is that of revenge. Bronte’s diction in Wuthering Heights shows the undying‚ yet impossible love‚ between Heathcliff and Catherine. Catherine’s desire to live a genteel life with money and privilege makes their marriage impossible

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    Heathcliff -  An orphan brought to live at Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw‚ Heathcliff falls into an intense‚ unbreakable love with Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter Catherine. After Mr. Earnshaw dies‚ his resentful son Hindley abuses Heathcliff and treats him as a servant. Because of her desire for social prominence‚ Catherine marries Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff. Heathcliff’s humiliation and misery prompt him to spend most of the rest of his life seeking revenge on Hindley‚ his beloved Catherine

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    raised and people have regrets. In Emily Brontë’s novel‚ Wuthering Heights‚ the bitter man‚ Mr. Heathcliff loses a bit of his sanity after the passing of his lover‚ Catherine. The hauntings of her spirit and the dreams that Mr. Heathcliff experiences proves readers that love/loss can destroy a person. The scene that captures the essence of the theme is in chapter 29 when Brontë evokes sympathy for Heathcliff after he explains how he has been tormented for 18 years after the passing of Catherine’s

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    o’clock in the morning to take him to his father. Because his mother never mentioned his father‚ Linton is surprised and confused. Linton is full of questions about his father‚ questions Nelly answers reluctantly. They get off to a rough start‚ with Heathcliff making comments about his son’s appearance. He says that the only reason he will put up with his son is that he is the heir to everything – (including Thrushcross Grange.) As Nelly leaves the house‚ she hears Linton crying out‚ begging not to be

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    Earnshaw’s living at Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is an orphan who Mr. Earnshaw decides to bring home during a trip to Liverpool. Heathcliff and Catherine grew an unconditional love for each other during their childhood. However‚ as they grow older their relationship becomes complex due to Catherine’s choice of marrying another man‚ Edgar Linton. The aim of this essay is to analyse the relationship between the main characters Catherine Earnshaw‚ Heathcliff and Edgar Linton using Sigmund Freud’s

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    a recurring literary theme of the war between passion and responsibility‚ seen specifically within Brontë’s character Heathcliff. In this case‚ Heathcliff’s passion is his overwhelming desire for revenge on the Earnshaw and Linton families in order to gain what he believes is rightfully his. With his mind solely focused on seeking vengeance on those who have hurt him‚ Heathcliff is unable to maintain the responsibilities of an adult‚ a father‚ or even a human being. Brontë demonstrates throughout

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    Violence 1: Mr. Lockwood has a bad introduction to Wuthering Heights when the dogs attack him. Heathcliff warns him that they are not pets‚ but when Heathcliff leaves the room‚ Mr. Lockwood makes faces at them. When the dogs attack‚ Heathcliff does not hurry to help him. It is the maid who finally comes to his aid. Mr. Lockwood is not used to such treatment‚ and he tells Heathcliff that if he’d been bitten‚ he would have responded by hitting the dog. After just a few moments in the house‚ Mr. Lockwood

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