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    first arrived at Wuthering Heights with Mr. Earnshaw‚ no one took a liking to him‚ other than Mr. Earnshaw himself. Catherine was the first to become his friend a short time later while Hindley had nothing but hate towards Heathcliff for taking his father’s love away from him. Mr. Earnshaw treated Heathcliff better than Hindley‚ who was his actual son‚ and this drove Hindley to constantly put Heathcliff down‚ torture‚ fight‚ and pick on him. Once Mr. Earnshaw died‚ the only person left for him was Catherine

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    incorrectly. Overall‚ Heathcliff is a maniacal man who is driven by all of the times that people have mistreated him in the past. Heathcliff was found in the city of Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw and brought back to Wuthering Heights‚ where all of the Earnshaw children hated him. Brontë states “[Catherine and Hindley] entirely refused to have

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    victim could get back at his past oppressor‚ and at other times‚ his treatment of innocent people was just pure evil. Throughout his life‚ Heathcliff was extremely discriminated against. Hindley‚ Heathcliff’s main tyrant‚ did everything in his ability to make his life insufferable. Edgar Linton‚ a friend of the Earnshaw family‚ took Catherine‚ Heathcliff’s true love‚ away from him. So Heathcliff found that he could get his revenge in full if he did the same immoral things to them and also to their children

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    Wuthering Heights deals with the very nature of controversy and paradox. The novel expresses deep criticisms of social conventions‚ and Brontë uses her characters in their incongruous surroundings to exemplify her concerns of the strict social code which she herself was expected to abide by‚ whilst remaining true to the principles she considered most important. Wuthering Heights challenges orthodoxy with heterodoxy‚ of which destruction and chaos triumph over social pretensions. The most undeniably

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    brother Hindley shunned him as a reject from society while viewing Heathcliff’s very existence a grievous crime‚ particularly because Mr. Earnshaw’s love and affection were displaced towards Heathcliff instead of himself. Far later in the novel‚ this terrible attitude backfires upon Hindley‚ who is misused and cheated out of ownership of Wuthering Heights by Heathcliff. This crime parallels another: Heathcliff’s abhorrent abuse of both Hindley in his weakened state and Hindley’s

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    happiness reigned at Wuthering Heights . Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw and their parents were‚ seemingly‚ a felicitous unit." (Knapp‚ 113) One day Mr. Earnshaw brings home a tan young boy he found wandering the 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

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    Nelly’s story‚ Heathcliff has faced problem after problem. He is found on the streets of Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw‚ and then brought to Wuthering Heights‚ and from then onwards‚ he is referred to as a ‘gypsy’ and linked to the devil. After the death of Mr Earnshaw‚ Heathcliff loses more than his father figure and protector‚ he also loses his home‚ status‚ and security. Upon the return of Hindley‚ Heathcliff undergoes emotional and physical abuse‚ degradation‚ and the loss of his new life‚ and he experiences

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    manor‚ Mr. Earnshaw‚ and his family. One day‚ Mr. Earnshaw goes to Liverpool and returns home with an orphan boy whom he will raise with his own children. At first‚ the Earnshaw children—a boy named Hindley and his younger sister Catherine—detest the dark-skinned Heathcliff. But Catherine quickly comes to love him‚ and the two soon grow inseparable‚ spending their days playing on the moors. After his wife’s death‚ Mr. Earnshaw grows to prefer Heathcliff to his own son‚ and when Hindley continues his

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    Heathcliff and Catherine‚ and Catherine‚ Linton and Harleton Earnshaw. One can consider the romantic love which Catherine and Heathcliff feel for each other but‚ because of Catherine’s family and because of their different social statuses‚ they can never belong to each other. Bronte creates their love as a gothic love story. Unable to have Catherine’s love‚ Heathcliff takes revenge on the next generation‚ Catherine‚ Linton and Hareton Earnshaw. Heathcliff hates Cathy‚ the daughter of Catherine and Edgar

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    Bronte’s contemporaries‚ akin to a combination of her childhood and work as an adult. At first entering the Wuthering Heights estate‚ Heathcliff’s earliest and most profound memories are rigid with life as an unequal; by the passing of Mr Earnshaw‚ Heathcliff

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