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    tWuthering Heights In the Victorian era‚ men were believed to be inherently 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

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    Wuthering Heights is a book of mirrored parallelisms. The ruinous and dark estate of Wuthering Heights stands opposite the lavish and high class house of Thrushcross Grange. The residents of each home carry the same demeanor as their houses with the miserable and cold people who inhabit the Heights sharing the moors with the refined Lintons of Thrushcross Grange. As the book progresses the reader will find that Bronte has not only chosen locational parallels but also parallels which transcend the

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    There are many uses of figurative language in literary texts. Some examples are satire‚ simile‚ personification‚ and metaphors. The two types of figurative language I will be examining are epigram and satire. Epigram is ”a witty saying in either verse or prose‚ concisely phrased and often satiric” (Dramatic Monologue‚ epigram). Satire is defined as “a genre of comedy that is directed at ridiculing human foibles and vices” (Dramatic Monologue‚ satire). Epigram usually includes traces of satire.

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    Wuthering Heights In Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights she depicts the balance of good and evil and does this so through her characters and their relationships with one another. Emily accomplishes this through her multitude of biblical allusions that depict the disolant road that older Catherine trots down‚ while Heathcliff and Edgar bash skulls for the hand of Catherine more than once. Each of these complex relationships take place with different intentions. One has selfish intentions while

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    Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte. Bronte takes you on a bunch of adventures throughout this book. The book starts out with Heathcliff on the side of the road as a orphan. The Earnshaws adopted him but the other kids got very jealous of the attention he was getting from the parents. After a little bit‚ Catherine starts to bond with heathcliff and they grow close together. In the middle‚ Catherine decides to marry Edgar for his money and leave Heathcliff heartbroken

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    the ancient manor of Wuthering Heights‚ four miles away from the Grange. In this wild‚ stormy countryside‚ Lockwood asks his housekeeper‚ Nelly Dean‚ to tell him the story of Heathcliff and the strange denizens of Wuthering Heights. Nelly consents‚ and Lockwood writes down his recollections of her tale in his diary; these written recollections form the main part of Wuthering Heights. Nelly remembers her childhood. As a young girl‚ she works as a servant at Wuthering Heights for the owner of the

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    Grief in Wuthering Heights

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    Emily Bronte incorporates various types of grief into her writing in Wuthering Heights. This may be due to the conditions of many of her own experiences‚ or it may not‚ we cannot know. Regardless‚ the grief that is exhibited by the many different characters‚ differs for various reasons. The intense feelings of grief demonstrated in Wuthering Heights are most often insinuated by death. The ways in which characters relate to one another vary greatly‚ and also play a great role in determining the intensity

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    Love in Wuthering Heights

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    Imagine a love in which you share the soul of another‚ where life itself wouldn’t be worth living without this person. What would end a love like that‚ or is that love forever? In Emily Brontë’s novel‚ Wuthering Heights‚ she portrays love as never ending. In the book Catherine and Heathcliff love is eternal‚ not even ended by death itself. She shows this throughout the novel‚ by showing time and death couldn’t dull their love‚ how they see the other person as themselves‚ and how their love for each

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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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    The Gothic in Wuthering Heights In true Gothic fashion‚ boundaries are trespassed‚ specifically love crossing the boundary between life and death and Heathcliff’s transgressing social class and family ties. Brontë follows Walpole and Radcliffe in portraying the tyrannies of the father and the cruelties of the patriarchal family and in reconstituting the family on non-patriarchal lines‚ even though no counterbalancing matriarch or matriarchal family is presented. Brontë has incorporated the Gothic

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