Comparative Study of Wuthering Heights, Translations, and I'M No Scared

Creating a haven from the cruel outside world, families ideally provide protection and support for each of their members. In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, however, bitterness grows between the Earnshaws and the Lintons. Within these two families, siblings rival for power and parents fail to fulfill their roles as caregivers. The intertwining relationships of the Earnshaws and the Lintons are marked by physical abuse, degradation, and emotional negligence. These reduce each of the family members’ life to a lonely and meaningless journey though the cold and misty moors.

It is clear, that in Emily Brontë’s ‘Wuthering Heights’ both Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights are two very different places. While the Grange can be seen as beautiful and elegant, it can also be viewed as unnatural and materialized; and while Wuthering Heights seems unfriendly and unkempt no fair decisions can be made when it is compared with an impeccable,

However, despite changes, the literary world remained predominantly male, and women writers not encouraged, or taken seriously. Consequently, to counteract this Emily Bronte published her novel Wuthering Heights, under the male pseudonym of Ellis Bell. Wuthering Heights is the story of domesticity, obsession, and elemental divided passion between the intertwined homes of the Earnshaw’s residing at the rural farmhouse Wuthering Heights, and the Linton family of the more genteel Thrushcross Grange. This essay will discuss how the language and narrative voices established a structural pattern of the novel, and how these differing voices had a dramatic effect on the interpretation of the overall story.

At one point in Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff locks Catherine and Nelly into a room for several days and even “seized her [Catherine] with the liberated hand, and, pulling her, on his knee, administered, with the other, a shower of terrific slaps on both sides of the head” (271). Heathcliff slaps Cathy after she refuses to say in the room with Nelly for the sole reason that Cathy is Catherine’s daughter, and Heathcliff takes out his anger at Catherine on her daughter, which shows how much fury he still has after all of these years. Heathcliff also tries to marry Cathy to Linton in order to take control of Wuthering Heights when Edgar dies. He says that Wuthering Heights would “go to me; but, to prevent disputes, I desire their union, and am resolved to bring it about” (215). The hope of preserving the memory of Catherine is what drives Heathcliff to force his son to marry Catherine. If Linton were to become heir of the property, it would ensure Heathcliff's ownership of Wuthering Heights, fulfilling his

With such an infamous knack for the art of the scorn and slander, it’s not much of a surprise that Catherine enjoys her gossip. While telling Nelly about Edgar’s Marriage proposal, with Heathcliff eavesdropping close by, Nelly asks Cathy why she would not marry heathcliff instead. Her response, “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now” (Bronte 81), shows that she not only cares more about her social status and appearance, but that she disregards Heathcliff’s feelings almost entirely as she has, as if she were shopping, gone with the better deal. Once Heathcliff hears Cathy’s words, he becomes a changed man, and by no means for the

Wuthering Heights’s Catherine Earnshaw is infamous for her complex character, some arguing that she is egocentric and manipulative, others sympathizing with the difficult choices she is faced with. However, there is no doubt that she is innately childish. As Catherine grows older, her character is not changed; she remains juvenile and selfish, making everything a game that revolves around her and not empathizing with other characters and their needs - subconsciously or not. In a sense, her mindset never progresses past one of a child. As Sigmund Freud wrote in The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, “What makes an infant characteristically different from every other stage of human life is that the child is polymorphously perverse” - an attribute which Catherine exemplifies throughout her lifetime. Her selfishness goes beyond the "ordinary self-centeredness" (Thormahlen 5) one might encounter in a regular adult - rather, Catherine directly affects her relationships with people through her "perverse" actions, and still does not recognize the harm in doing so. She exists in an irresponsible state, not perceiving that "she cannot have, and be, everything she wants whenever she wants it” (5) - and this is reflected in every single relationship she experiences. It is Catherine’s intrinsic immaturity and inability to progress from her childhood mindset that is the main catalyst not only in her in the other character’s

Isabella Linton: A Product of her Environment In the well-known novel Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, there are two prominently featured female characters: Catherine Earnshaw and Isabella Linton. This story takes place during the Victorian era, when women’s roles, rights, and options were often limited due to their gender and when these gender-based limitations affected women’s status in the home and in society. At the time, women were expected to marry as well as they could so they could live a lavish life and raise their children well. If one was to marry someone below their social status they would be looked down upon, which was the basis of why Catherine Earnshaw ultimately chooses Edgar Linton over Heathcliff.

Britain's society had an unbalance of power during the late eighteenth century amongst genders. The roles of men and women were distinct, however the women had far less say and input. In the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë displays the revolutionary change amongst women beginning in the late 1860s. The barrier of not having a voice as well as restricted freedom had finally been broken down. The roles of women have progressed drastically from the stay home mother, to marriage rights, to finally the rebellious actions of women wanting to achieve their individualism.

The life of those who lived in 19th-century Britain varied widely depending on where you lied within the highly distinct social classes. In Charlotte Brontë’s, Jane Eyre, societal norms are challenged by the young protagonist, Jane Eyre. The narrative follows the life of Jane as she transcends social classes, gaining insight into the life of rich and poor alike. Brontë does not confine Jane to a set class, by doing so, Jane can develop her understanding of the world from a multitude of perspectives. Jane strays from the norms of society by her unconventional faith, her negative emotions towards the hierarchal society she lives in, and her uncontrollable desire to place passion over principle.

In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is madly in love with Catherine and as she is with him but Catherine

Understanding the cultural context within which a text is written can help readers experience things that they may never experience in their lives. Culture leads readers intellectually and emotionally and deepens their understanding of the character’s history, the society that they live in and their individual lives. Learning culture plays a fundamental role in making readers understand the social and political context in which the novel is written, the people the author associates with, and the larger society that frames the whole work. It is hard to read literature without a solid comprehension of the work through its cultural context. In light of this information this essay will explain how culture influences the plot line, character development,

Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte explore social class in a number of different ways throughout their novels Pride and the Prejudice and Jane Eyre. They do this through the use of stylistic devices which in turn appeals to their different audiences. Both Jane and Charlotte are notable writers for their remarkable texts. Jane Austen is known for playing a revolutionary role in the generation of English female literature, which was counteracted by this piece- and Charlotte Bronte also developed her feminist thoughts, which have been displayed throughout her novels. By analysing social class in Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre this essay will compare these two women writers’ texts and display how social class is presented

Like the beginnings of most novels, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, starts it’s winding, dark tale with a time filled to the brim with the joyous adventures of childhood. Our main characters, Catherine and Heathcliff, begin their story as wild kids exploring the wilder moors of Yorkshire in the late 1700s, and as they reach adolescence, their growing feelings for each other are torn apart by misfortune and cruelty. As time passes and they begin to see the world for how it truly is, they are forced to address the afflictions within them and around them. In a disturbing tale twisted by loss, heartbreak, and devastation, Catherine and Heathcliff must face the harsh reality that they have created for themselves in their strife of greed and

When Hindley takes over Wuthering Heights he basically turns Heathcliff into a poor slave that wasn’t aloud an education. This classification is one of the main reasons that Catherine choose to marry Edgar instead. After she married she soon became pregnant. She gets very sick and 2 hours after the baby is born, Catherine dies. This is when Catherine truly becomes a forbidden love. Heathcliff is so devastated by her death that he shouts “Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you – haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe – I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh god! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”

Wuthering Heights is a work marked by bewildering characterization. Perhaps most complex of all is Emily’s portrayal of Catherine Earnshaw as a pitiful victim and an abusive victimizer. With such qualities, Catherine’s character was violently at odds with ideals of the Victorian womanhood. Namely, that a woman should be passive, obedient, and an angel in the house. (Towheed, 2012). Indeed, not major characteristics of Bronte’s female protagonist. However, this victimizing behavior could be justified by Catherine’s own victimization; a mixture that is incapable of affecting one’s own sympathizes towards her.