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    firstly the way Heathcliff gets exploited by Hindley in similar how Victor abandons his ‘son’. They both had emotional experiences that triggered their desire for revenge. In Wuthering heights when Catherine declares she is going to get married to Edgar‚ Heathcliff’s plan for vengeance on Edgar and Catherine is to marry Isabella‚ ‘I love him more than ever you loved Edgar. ‘This clearly suggests Isabella is ignorant of love and of men because she has never experienced either. Heathcliff wants to hurt

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    characters are at the mercy of forces they cannot control. At the beginning of the novel‚ Lockwood thinks he can travel through the storm‚ and he ends up failing. Wind and rain are present when Mr. Earnshaw dies‚ when Heathcliff departs from Wuthering Heights‚ and when Heathcliff dies→ At the

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    novel written by the Victorian writer‚ Emily Bronte besides her poems. It is one of the most passionate and heartfelt novels. It is also‚ considered highly original and deeply tragic. This novel is about the relation between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff‚ the orphan boy brought to Wuthering Heights‚ and his tyrannical revenge excited on everybody for the rage and humiliation he suffers throughout his life. The novel is based on a group of flashbacks which are organized chronologically and told

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    and open wilderness‚ one that cannot be easily navigated through‚ or at least according to Lockwood. However‚ to both Heathcliff and Catherine the moors represent freedom- they are a place without boundaries where they can be together‚ as seen in her dying words‚ where she wishes she ‘were out of doors […] among the heather on those hills’ and also‚ after death‚ a boy sees ‘Heathcliff and a woman‚ yonder’- their togetherness after death on the moor shows how despite its harshness‚ it becomes their

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    Not Scared’ by Gabriele Salvatores. In my answer I will discuss four unexpected moments of each text‚ three minor and one major. ’Wuthering Heights’ is a gothic romance novel set in the late 18th century and is a story of an adopted orphan child‚ Heathcliff‚ who is then is reduced to the status of a servant‚ running away when the young woman he loves decides to marry another. He returns later‚ rich and educated‚ and sets about gaining his revenge on the two families that he believed ruined his life

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    with the fate of the two families‚ into the core story of Catherine and Heathcliff. The two lovers manipulate various members of both families simply to inspire and torment each other in life and death. Heathcliff dominates the novel. Ruthless and tyrannical‚ he represents a new kind of man‚ free of all restraints and dedicated

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    Wuthering Heights to be a straightforward‚ if intense‚ love story — Romeo and Juliet on the Yorkshire Moors. But this is a mistake. Really the story is one of revenge. It follows the life of Heathcliff‚ a mysterious gypsy-like person‚ from childhood (about seven years old) to his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff rises in his adopted family and then is reduced to the status of a servant‚ running away when the young woman he loves decides to marry another. He returns later‚ rich and educated‚ and

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    superior to women by natural design. We see that in Wuthering Heights‚ Heathcliff appears to impose dominance over many of the characters in the novel as the story progresses. His quest for vengeance and his inability to deal with the death of Catherine eventually reveal his true nature as a maudlin sociopath In chapter 10‚ upon Heathcliff’s return to Wuthering Heights‚ Nelly recounts when she beheld "the transformation of Heathcliff" that "A half-civilized ferocity lurked yet in [his] depressed brows

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    ROMANTIC LOVE IN WUTHERING HEIGHTS Romantic love takes many forms in Wuthering Heights: the grand passion of Heathcliff and Catherine‚ the insipid sentimental languishing of Lockwood‚ the coupleism of Hindley and Frances‚ the tame indulgence of Edgar‚ the romantic infatuation of Isabella‚ the puppy love of Cathy and Linton‚ and the flirtatious sexual attraction of Cathy and Hareton. These lovers‚ with the possible exception of Hareton and Cathy‚ are ultimately self-centered and ignore the needs

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    disgust at Cathy’s behaviour in chapters 9 and 10 of Wuthering Heights.’ To what extent do you agree with this statement? (40 marks) Chapters 9 and 10 see Catherine Earnshaw confess her love for Heathcliff but ultimately agree to marry Edgar Linton for the betterment of her social status. Heathcliff is also transformed after three years‚ and it is obvious that both he and Catherine are still very much in love. Whether Catherine’s behaviour in these chapters can be viewed as anything but disgusting

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