Catherine's Role In Wuthering Heights

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Heathcliff’s strong love for Catherine guides his transformation as a character. While Heathcliff enters the story as an innocent child, the abuse he receives at a young age and his heartbreak at Catherine’s choice to marry Edgar Linton bring about a change within him. Heathcliff’s adulthood is consequently marked by jealousy and greed due to his separation from Catherine, along with manipulation and a deep desire to seek revenge on Edgar. Although Heathcliff uses deceit and manipulation to his advantage throughout the novel, he is never entirely content in his current situation. As Heathcliff attempts to revenge Edgar Linton, he does not gain true fulfillment. Throughout Wuthering Heights, Brontë uses Heathcliff’s vengeful actions to convey the message that manipulative and revenge-seeking behaviors will not bring a person satisfaction.

Bronte also depicts Catherine as a bully when she is just a child. Catherine’s spoilt ways cause her to react in anger and violence towards Heathcliff when she discovers her desired whip was lost in order to bring him home. The quote “grinning and spitting at the stupid little thing” demonstrates Catherine’s wicked nature as a child and also illustrates how spoilt she is. This is another reason why Catherine Earnshaw should be condemned.

Another aspect which is relevant today and forever it shall remain relevant is selfishness. Catherine's selfish character was depicted when she wanted both Edgar and Heathcliff at the same time. In the beginning, she was introduced as a 'high spirited' character who was wild. However, she drastically changes throughout the book. When she hurts her leg and is forced to stay at Thrushcross Grange, she returns to Wuthering Heights as a well dressed and dignified lady. She was easily swayed to the superior lifestyle of the Lintons and began to look down upon Heathcliff. She even laughs at his rough and dirty appearance and says "I didn't mean to laugh at you. I could not hinder myself Heathcliff. Shake hands at least! What are you sulky for? It was only that you looked odd. If you wash you face and brush your hair, it would be alright. But you are

Brontë is best known for her novel, Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. For this novel she went by the pseudonym Ellis Bell. The novel goes through the life

The following Bachelor Thesis entitled “Between Devils and Angels: Representations of Feminity in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë” aims to give a broad outline of the role of women in Victorian society and to present two great 19th century writers, Emily Brontë and Anne Brontë and two rebellious protagonists they created: Catherine Earnshaw and Helen Graham. The main aim of this diploma work is to point out the impact of Victorian gender roles on Brontë sisters’ novels and their

At her age, Catherine should have felt the happiest she has even been after Edgar’s proposal, but her emotions toward Heathcliff changed all that. One way she states her love for Heathcliff by saying: “’My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath’” (Brontë 74), illustrating the everlastings of her emotions and that they will never fade no matter what happens. Yet on the other hand, her ambitions get the best of her in which she says to Nelly: “’I shall like to be the greatest woman in the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband [Edgar Linton]’” (Brontë 71). Instead of marrying for true love as seen throughout fairy tales, Catherine marries Edgar solely for reputation, following her mind instead of her heart. The conflict of her following her heart or her mind has led her into denial by imagining that by marrying Edgar she is doing the right thing and that she could raise Heathcliff, for at this time he is poor. Catherine is not the only one affected by denial, Isabella Linton is as well.

The parents of Cathy Linton were Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar Linton. Catherine grew up with a young orphan boy named Heathcliff. Catherine and Heathcliff were inseparable as children, bonded by the loss of her father figure and growing up in a household lacking warmth. As time progressed Catherine grew to be a beautiful young girl and Heathcliff declines to a mistreated young boy enslaved by forced fealty. Catherine is inclined to marry a young man named Edgar Linton however she believes she loves Heathcliff. In the text she states “I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven…. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him” (Catherine, Chapter 9). However, Catherine goes on

Wuthering Heights The book, “Wuthering Heights,” by Emily Bronte was written during a time in which social structure and culture was very important. People fell into a specific class depending on wealth and what you were born into. Depending on relationships you were to make, the social structure and class would either help you or tear you apart. A good example would be Heathcliff and Catherine’s relationship in Wuthering Heights.

Though not as intense as his father’s affairs, Linton starts secretly writing to Cathy at Thrushcross Grange where she then secretly writes him back as well. At this time, Cathy makes fun of Hareton for his lack of education and filth. Unlike the first love triangle to occur in the family, Linton and Hareton did not once discuss Cathy or have any hatred towards one another. Heathcliff desperately tries to push Linton and Cathy together in hopes of a marriage which then gives him the ownership of Thrushcross Grange. Taking drastic measures, Heathcliff locks Nelly and Cathy in Wuthering Heights and marries Linton and Cathy - who do in fact love each other. Linton eventually dies, leaving only Heathcliff, Cathy, Hareton, and the servants at Wuthering Heights. Until one day when Hareton accidentally shoots himself, Cathy tends to him. At first they argue, but eventually they come to an understanding and start to get along. They eventually fall in love and Cathy promises Hareton how to read. Nelly had this to say about the new couple:

Catherine tries to make Heathcliff jealous by going with Edgar a few years after he fleed the country. When Catherine and Heathcliff were little she would try to have some power over him. When Catherine sees him after being away for five weeks she starts laughing and making fun of him “ Why , how very black and cross you look! And how-how funny and grim! But that’s because i’m used to Edgar and Isabella.

Do you ever talk to your friends about someone, but you both have different opinions about them? In the novel Wuthering Heights the characters Nelly and Edgar both have different beliefs on Catherine. Nelly believes Catherine is overly dramatic and uses emotional response to get her own way. While Edgar knows Catherine can use her intellect as well as her emotions to prove her point, her emotional displays alarm him. There are three ways to show how Nelly and Edgar have their beliefs on Catherine. First and foremost, Nelly's view for Catherine is negative, while Edgars view is positive. For example, no one praised Nelly like Heathcliff and Edgar praised Catherine. This goes to show why Nelly would have a negative belief, often Nelly admits

Even though Heathcliff was unbearably mean to Cathy, she refused to be squashed. She made her own happiness by planting plants from Thrushcross Grange at Wuthering Heights and reading whenever she could. She also chose to rebel against Heathcliff’s tyrannical rules, even going as far as to fight him about them. Another key example of Cathy adapting is in her romantic relationships. When she was forced to marry Linton, she made the best of it, insisting to Heathcliff that, “you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery,” (page 240) because although she was not happy with Linton, she knew he loved her. And although Heathcliff wouldn’t allow Hareton to be with Cathy, she fought past that and they fell for each other.

The novel Wuthering Heights was written by Emily Bronte and was her first and only published novel and it was published in 1847. The book wasn’t an instant success but it changed many years later. Jane Eyre and Villette are novels that were written by Charlotte Bronte, who was the oldest child and she was a great English novelist and poet who published most of the novels in her family. Besides Jane Eyre and Villette she published two other novels, Shirley and

In addition, to better understand the book, you first have to get an overview of the author. Emily Bronte was born on July 30, 1818, in Thornton, Yorkshire, in the north of England, the third child of the Reverend Patrick Bronte and Maria Branwell Bronte. Emily and her sisters—entertained themselves by reading Shakespeare, Milton, Virgil and the Bible. As well as playing on the Yorkshire moors were they dreamed up fanciful, fabled worlds, creating a constant stream of tales, such as the Young Men plays (1826) and Our Fellows

It is the opinion of this essay that the character of Heathcliff evolves a lot more than the character of Catherine. When we first meet Heathcliff, he was found on the streets of Liverpool by Catherine’s father who then adopts him into the family as one of his own. This would have been a dramatic change for Heathcliff. Then after experiencing this quality of life until the death of the father he is then cast into the role of a servant/labourer by Catherine’s brother who despises him. Finally, when Heathcliff hears part of the conversation between Catherine and Nelly, he hears Catherine plans to marry Edgar Linton as she could never marry Heathcliff. “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now”. (82) It is here Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights and returns three years later, a gentleman of means and of polite demeanour, not what you would expect from him. Here we can bring back the point that one’s environment dramatically affects one’s behaviour. Like Catherine, Heathcliff defies social norms expected of his gender. After he returns back from travelling having acquired great wealth and on the surface seems a changed man, he would be accepted into middle class society as he displays the characteristics expected of him. It is well described in the book to enforce the dramatic change in him for readers to understand how far he has come from