Examples Of Jealousy In Wuthering Heights

There are many different emotions like sadness, happiness, and joyfulness just to name a few that people can experience. One of the most powerful and sometimes dangerous emotions is Jealousy. Jealousy is a powerful emotion that most people experience at some point in their life. However, not everyone is affected in the same way. Some people are filled with insecurity. While others are filled with fear. Most people experience anger. In William Shakespeare’s Othello the audience learns through the characterization of Othello and Iago, the symbolism of the handkerchief, and through Othello denying that he is jealous we learn that jealousy can make people behave irrationally in certain circumstances.

His wife, Mrs. Earnshaw, is furious that Heathcliff has been brought into the house and the Earnshaws’ son, Hindley, is jealous of the apparent love his father

Through self-centered and narcissistic characters, Emily Bronte’s classic novel, “Wuthering Heights” illustrates a deliberate and poetic understanding of what greed is. Encouraged by love, fear, and revenge, Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and Linton Heathcliff all commit a sin called selfishness.

13. Mr. Earnshaw returned home from Liverpool with an orphan (Heathcliff). His daughter Catherine took to Heathcliff, as did Mr. Earnshaw, but Hindley hated the boy and tortured him. Heathcliff had to be hard and insensible in order to cope with Hindley’s abuses. Nelly Dean repeatedly describes Heathcliff as “sullen.”

Some people know jealousy as "green envy." Some people just know it as plain old jealousy, but everyone knows jealousy and the pain it can cause. Jealousy is a nasty emotion, causing nice people to act mean, calm people to act rash, and even the steadiest of tempers to rise. It lashes out with harsh actions and words, hurting many innocent victims. Jealousy causes people to act in abnormal ways, devious ways of hatred and deception, ways that most people would not normally act. Ultimately, jealousy is caused by a certain insecurity that a person has. This insecurity comes from not having what you desire, allowing you to be jealous of those who have it. Three main things that cause insecurity

Brontë shows how cruelty passes through generations through Hindley’s mistreatment towards Heathcliff. From the moment Mr. Earnshaw adopts Heathcliff, Hindley enters a state of melancholy and loathes that his father clearly favors Heathcliff over him. Mr. Earnshaw’s adoption of Heathcliff upsets Hindley, his father clearly favors Heathcliff over him. Consequently, Hindley reciprocates this hatred when he meets Heathcliff, comparing him to satan and wishing for his death. Heathcliff, unable to act against these cruel words, silently absorbs them. This interaction reveals traits of each character: the maliciousness of Hindley’s character, who hates on the young Heathcliff without reason; and the timidity of Heathcliff, fostered by his inability to stand up for himself. Although timid at the moment, Heathcliff assimilates this cruelty so that he can inflict it upon others, just as Hindley does the same to him. This depicts how the victim of suffering develops into the bearer of cruelty. Soon after Mr. Earnshaw’s death, Hindley assumes control of his household and unleashes even more cruelty on Heathcliff. In a fit of

The theme of the destructive love within relationships in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Bronte's Wuthering Heights is presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. In today’s time in high schools there’s a lot of conflict, dealing with love such as friends, betraying each other over jealousy and sexism. Causing conflict and jeopardizing friendships.

As a young orphan who is brought to Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is thrown into abuse as Hindley begins to treat Heathcliff as a servant in reaction to Mr. Earnshaw’s death. As a reaction to both this and Catherine discarding Heathcliff for Edgar, Heathcliff’s sense of misery and embarrassment causes him to change and spend the rest of his time seeking for justice. Throughout this time, Heathcliff leans on violence to express the revenge that he so seeks by threatening people and displaying villainous traits. However, Heathcliff’s first symptom of change in personality is when Heathcliff runs into Hareton after Cathy “tormented

Heathcliff is introduced in Nelly's narration as a seven-year-old Liverpool foundling (probably an Irish famine immigrant) brought back to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. His presence in Wuthering Heights overthrows the prevailing habits of the Earnshaw family, members of the family soon become involved in turmoil and fighting and family relationships become spiteful and hateful. Even on his first night, he is the reason Mr. Earnshaw breaks the toys he had bought for his children. "From the very beginning he bred bad feelings in the house". Heathcliff usurps the affections of Mr. Earnshaw to the exclusion of young Hindley-: "The young master had learnt to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a

Explore how passion and the depth of love in relationships is presented in Wuthering Heights and in the poetry you have explored.

The relationship between Heathcliff and Hindley revealed and developed the abusive nature of Heathcliff. Heathcliff was taken in as a young boy into a wealthy family that had two children. Ever since the day he was brought home the eldest son, Hindley, resented how the father favored him more. For example, Heathcliff threatened to tell their father if Hindley did not let him have his horse. This one childish threat had created the foundation of the resentment between the two men. Heathcliff threatened to tell their father that Hindley was making him feel unwelcome and abused emotionally, Hindley decided to not see if Heathcliff was going to follow through with the threat therefore gave him the horse. Later on through life, once the father dies, Hindley decides to take his absence as an excuse to start really physically abusing Heathcliff. He would beat him and punch him without thought of how this would transfer into the rest of his life. Heathcliff was also verbally assaulted by Hindley which is a twist on the traditional sense of cruelty. Hindley is demeaning towards Heathcliff and calls him a slave and make sure that he know that he is not equal with himself or his sister Catherine. This point planted the seed of doubt and not being good enough for the rest of his life. This continual mental assault forged the mindset of little Heathcliff to how he would exact revenge on Hindley for all of his wrongdoings. This cruelty from Hindley was due to the favoritism that Heathcliff received as a child, the death of his father, the death of his wife, and the constant reminder of his wife through his son. The constant cruelty is the motive for Heathcliff's actions once he returns to the Heights. Through baiting Hindley, in his own personal torment from his wife's passing, all the money and possessions are gambled away with Heathcliff as the new owner. Wuthering Heights itself

Earnshaw and raised as his own son. There, he endures daily torment from his step-brother Hareton who abhors Heathcliff and regards him “as a usurper of his parent's affections and his privileges” (Brontë 37). The display of cruelty, ranging between stinging pinches to violent beatings, between such young children appalled readers. Moreover, after Mr. Earnshaw’s death when Hindley became the head of the manor, he further ill-treats his brother by relegating him to the position of a mere servant and by forcing him labor extensively. Retorting to the mistreatment he faces, Heathcliff vows to “pay Hindley back” (Brontë 54). Hence, Hindley initiates a cycle of maltreatment that influences Heathcliff’s future treatment of others. The author opts to include detailed accounts of violence between the young boys, invoking readers to label her as vile for creating the gruesome story while they ironically remain reading the “repelling” novel. As the book progresses, Heathcliff becomes the main perpetrator of hostility, as a result of the vicious rotation of abuse. First, he deceptively marries an innocent girl, Isabelle Linton, to exact revenge upon her brother, and he impairs both her mind and body. He, even, murders her precious dog, seeking to wound her. Heathcliff’s willingness to kill demonstrates his borderline sadistic inclination to receive pleasure from inflicting pain on others. His

Earnshaw became his adoptive father. “A dirty ragged black-haired child” the triplication of pre-modifying adjectives carry pejorative connotations as Heathcliff had been living on the streets of Liverpool therefore as he had been a homeless beggar, Nelly and the Linton’s believed that he was not fit for decent, well respect homes such as Wuthering Heights or Thrushcross Grange. The vocative “gypsy brat” (Ch.4) also carries pejorative connotations as young Heathcliff is condemned by religious folk and because he seemed to have no parents or a stable home, he was considered a ‘bastard’ child and a devil that “bred bad feeling in the house”

When Mr. Earnshaw passes away, the abuse continues to worsen as Hindley gains possession of the Earnshaw manor, Wuthering Heights. Having the power over the estate and everything regarding the land, Hindley forces Heathcliff to be a servant in his own home. “He drove him from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour out of doors instead; compelling him to do so harder as any other hand on the farm” (Kettle 118). After being forced to work in the fields with appalling conditions, Heathcliff escapes from Wuthering Heights and for the next three years, has no contact with anyone. Hindley’s life turns upside-down when his wife dies and he turns to alcohol and gambling to help dull his aching heart. Heathcliff now returns to the area with the thirst to get complete revenge on all who has done him wrong, beginning with his jealous alcoholic brother, Hindley. To start off his master plan, Heathcliff lends his brother money to “encourage” him with his gambling and alcohol addictions. Hindley ends up drowning in debt and is no longer able to own Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff is luckily there to take the land off of his hands. Heathcliff is successful in getting revenge due to previous events between the brothers. The scaring and unfortunate childhood that Heathcliff endeavors, shapes his character in the

Although envy and jealousy are often treated as synonyms but there is a difference. You are envious of what others have but what you do not. Jealousy, on the other hand, involves holding tight on what you have; afraid of losing (Brians). Envy and jealousy are similar, but they have the different meaning in term of emotion. The emotion when people are envious, tends to be more hysterical because they do not have the ability to own what others have. For jealousy, people often feel depressed and fearing because they do not want to lose what belongs to them. Both feelings happen when people compare with others since everyone wants to be the best. When people are jealous, they tend to be suspicious, but when people are envious of someone their attitude will be toward anger.