Character Analysis Of Nelly In Emily Bront�'s Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff resents her scorn. He desires to regain her approval. He attempts to be “decent” and “good” for her sake (Brontë 40). However, his attempt to be decent fails miserably. He resents the attentions that Catherine gives to Edgar. Catherine would rather wear a “silly frock” and have dinner with “silly friends” than ramble about the moors with him (Brontë 50). Heathcliff keeps track of the evenings Catherine spends with Edgar and those that she spends with him. He desperately wants to be with Catherine. When Catherine announces to Nelly her engagement to Edgar, Heathcliff eavesdrops, but leaves the room when he “heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him” (Brontë 59). Catherine has spurned his love, choosing Edgar over him. Heathcliff cannot bear this rejection. The love he possesses for her transcends romantic and filial love (Mitchell 124). He feels that he is one with her (Mitchell 123).

If Linton dies, Heathcliff will be in possession of Thrushcross Grange. Not only does he want to be the mater of Thrushcross grange, he wants to upset Edgar to get revenge on him for marrying his one true love. One day Nelly and Catherine venture to Wuthering Heights so that Catherine can see Linton. To further his plan, Heathcliff imprisons Nelly and Catherine and won’t allow them to leave Wuthering Heights until Catherine agrees in to marry

Nelly worked as a servant at Wuthering Heights since she was a girl and grew up with Catherine so she knows her better than anybody. Mostly she likes Catherine but sometimes she does not because Catherine can be mean and she has a bad temper. Nell thinks Catherine acts like a fake. She says “Catherine was full of ambition - and this led her to adopt a double character without exactly intending to deceive any one” When Edgar said bad things about Heathcliff Catherine did not defend him. And when Heathcliff talked about Edgar she did not defend him either.

Dean is an active participant in this part of the story, and she acts on the basis of what she believes,” introducing her own ideas into established events, shaped by her ego, her own sense of moral superiority (Marsh 14). On the day that Mr. Earnshaw, Catherine and Hindley’s father, set out on his journey that would culminate in the discovery of Heathcliff, Dean recalls that she sat with Catherine and Hindley as they ate their porridge. When Mr. Earnshaw asks his children what he wants them to pick up, Nelly claims that “he promised to bring me back a pocketful of apples and pears,” for he had “a kind heart” despite the fact that “he was rather severe sometimes” (Brontë 36). In context of the story, Nelly is portraying herself as equivalent to the other two children, being worthy of eating with them. She even scored a recognition from Mr. Earnshaw, pledging to bring her back a handful of fruit; of course, this is not nearly as extravagant as the fiddle or whip requested from Hindley and Catherine, respectively, but the sentiment is still notable. However, this is exactly the type of possible white lie that, when slipped in, does nothing but help equate Nelly to the other esteemed children. Adding points like this to the story help to raise Nelly’s social standing to the levels she thinks she deserves, at least to Lockwood and the reader. Also attributed to her ego is an inflated sense of importance to the drama at Wuthering Heights. Once, over a meal just

As emotions run high after Catherine’s funeral, Nelly gets a visit from an unexpected visitor; Isabella. As Catherine enters the ground and gone from Thrushcross Grange, Heathcliff emerges back into the property with an axe to grind. Isabella seeks Nelly for refuge from her soon to be ex-husband’s antics and reveals how truly evil he is. The setting of the environment foreshadows the terrible actions Heathcliff committed in Isabella’s story. The abnormal weather and its effect on the surrounding environment express the transition of Heathcliff's destruction:

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

Also adding to the fact that the two manors are better understood as two different worlds. Even though Catherine grew up in Heathcliff’s world, her move has caused her to change making their love impossible to pursue. Since then, she comes to spend more time with Edgar while cutting time to be with Heathcliff. She explains to Nelly her reasons for taking Edgars hand in marriage “the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and every- thing he touches, and every word he says—I love all his looks, and all his actions, and him entirely, and altogether” (Bronte) It is undeniable that her love for Edgar is based off his prestige and not entirely for who he is.

Looking back on the years Nelly spent at Wuthering Heights, she can’t help but feel a sense of irritation. Catherine’s presence here would always seep through the walls like the sticky bitter sap of the moor trees, that clings to your skin even after doused in water. In many ways Catherine was divided and conflicted, unruly and tamed, and headstrong and loving. As Nelly reflects on her opinion of Catherine she realizes that Edgar, Catherine’s husband, might have held a slightly different view.

In chapters 1-10, Nelly appears to not have a single nice thing to say about Catherine, focusing on recounting how rude and haughty she was. She describes her as a "thorn" being embraced by "honeysuckles" (Edgar and Isabella being the honeysuckles) in the quote, “It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn” (10. 23). In Nelly’s opinion, she frequently cries in order to keep her family and friends “emotionally hostage”, yet Catherine seems to be fond of Nelly, and confides her deepest feelings and secrets to her. Catherine thinks Nelly is her friend, and trusts her, but Nelly truly despises her. Her talk of Catherine leaves a very negative impression of her on Lockwood, who at one point says, "I marveled much how he, (Edgar Linton) with a mind to correspond with his person, could fancy my idea of Catherine Earnshaw" (8. 50). The reason this is said is because Catherine is not alive to defend herself, or to tell her side of the story. She's not alive for Lockwood to see for himself what type of person she was and only has Nelly's word to go on. She is the one who knows the true wild side of Catherine in the Earnshaw residence and becomes annoyed with the double personality she develops after staying at the Linton

Then Heathcliff returns after an absence of three years. Cahterine’s jubilation and joy at Heathcliff’s return is indescribable. She tells Nelly that the return of Heathcliff had reconciled her to God and humanity. Catherine is well aware of the monstrous nature of Heathcliff. That is why she tries to discourage Isabella from continuing to be in love with him. She says that he is a person without any refinement and without any human feelings. Isabella does not, of course, pay any heed to Catherine’s advice. The result is that when Catherine learns that Heathcliff had kissed Isabella, she feels indignant and has a quarrel with him. Then an angry scene between Edgar and Heathcliff makes her even more indignant and agitates her so much that she seriously falls ill. A few months later, when Heathcliff pays Catherine secret visit, there is a passionate scene between them. The two of them were locked in each other’s embrace; and Catherine’s condition becomes critical. She dies that very night after giving birth to a child, who is given the same name as

At the time when Wuthering Heights was published, most readers trust their narrators. Readers would assume the truth was being communicated. Bronte’ even provides particular dictions for important characters that parallel with their personalities. Wuthering Heights was one of the first and more prominent known novels to use unreliable narrators. Nelly Dean, in Wuthering Heights, becomes one of the unreliable narrators. Nelly merely contemplates moral aspect and the moral consequences of the situation. She fails to provide Cathy with the truth and she may be consider quite misleading. Nelly Dean is not very trustworthy and readers may be drawn to see the unwinding of her deceitfulness. The Game of Thrones contains several promiscuous characters, as well. The Queen, Cersei, is a character who can be considered unreliable and especially untrustworthy. Cersei attempts to have as she desires at any cost. She becomes one of the most untrustworthy characters in Game of Thrones.

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë features the prominent characters of Edgar and Nelly, and their relations with main protagonist Catherine. Edgar, Catherine’s husband and one of her love interests, primarily sees his wife as an intelligent lady who occasionally uses dramatics to get her way. Said dramatic outbursts tend to be violent as well as shock Edgar. Early on in their relationship he seems to believe she has gotten over these emotional episodes. Until he finds her violently shaking her little brother and when Edgar attempts to intervene she strikes him. He goes to leave and she tries to convince to stay, and then starts crying about being alone.

While at Thrushcross Grange, she grows infatuated with Edgar, despite her love for Heathcliff. Edgar came from an upper class family as well and took care of her when she was in a dog accident. This leads to her acceptance of Edgar Linton’s marriage proposal despite her statements regarding her love for Heathcliff. Heathcliff overhears unfortunate passages of Catherine's discourse and disappears for a period during which he mysteriously makes his fortune and changes irrevocably from the person he was. Vengeance consumes him, and Heathcliff attempts to destroy the lives of those who wronged him, (as well as their children). Ultimately, Heathcliff’s bitterly executed vengeance is effaced by a love between Hareton and Cathy that mirrors Heathcliff’s own love for Catherine. Hareton is Catherine’s nephew and Cathy is Catherine’s daughter, which makes the two first cousins.

Her narration is extremely critical of Catherine Earnshaw, and at one point she says ‘At fifteen she was the queen of the country-side; she had no peer: and she did turn out a haughty, headstrong creature! I own I did not like her ‘. It is important to remember that Nelly and Catherine are almost the same age, and it's quite possible Nelly is jealous of Catherine's popularity affecting the authenticity of narration. Nelly also seems to have feelings for Heathcliff. We see her affection, when Hindley comes home drunk, Nelly gives a hint to Heathcliff so that Heathcliff doesn’t come in and get into trouble. We can say that she care for him and doesn’t want him to get into an argument with Hindley. We also see this when Catherine, Isbaella and Nelly are sitting down, and Heathcliff comes in. Cathy tells Heathcliff that there is someone in the room that likes him very much. Heathcliff right away looks over to Nelly .Here we can guess that Heathcliff knows about Nelly’s feelings towards him. Moreover , we see that Nelly cares for Heathcliff, because she knows him well and when Cathy dies, she knew that she would find him by the tree and what he would be doing. Nelly is limited because of her straight religious and moral sentiments, which often prevent her from a greater perceptive of the emotions or motives of the

Heathcliff and Catherine’s introduction to the Linton family acts as the point in Wuthering Heights when racialization and othering have fully proliferated throughout Heathcliff’s environment, what with Catherine’s recognition of Heathcliff’s imposed racial and class inferiority. The earliest trace of Catherine’s shifting perspective is found in her reaction to Isabella’s claim that Heathcliff looks “exactly like the son of a fortune-teller”; hearing this, Cathy laughs (50). This is the first betrayal of many in Heathcliff’s eyes. Catherine’s shift in vocabulary becomes evident after she finally returns to Wuthering Heights, the girl unabashedly telling Heathcliff how “black and cross” he looks upon entering, and how his dark demeanor stands out because she is “used to Edgar and Isabella Linton” (54). In short, a mere few weeks at Thrushcross Grange has taught Catherine to consider Heathcliff a different breed of human being altogether. When considering the growing divide between Heathcliff and Catherine across lines of class and race, then, one can see that Catherine’s perspective offers what Nelly’s does not: it illustrates a deliberate shift from a mind full of mere adoration to one poisoned with feelings of superiority. To be granted insight into Catherine’s mind as she “gaze[s] concernedly at the dusky fingers she held in her