How Does Bronte Present Catherine's Hatred In Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a wild, twisted, passionate, and tragic love story between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. The book has many similarities and differences with the elements of fairy tales. These elements also reflects on the way Emily Bronte has been brought up due to her surroundings and family. Most fairy tales usually ends with a happy ending where the prince and princess live happily ever after, however this one has a much more dark and vengeful taste.

Throughtout Wuthering Heights, Healthcliff is destroyed by his love for Catherine Earnshaw. Heathliff never marries Catherine because they become stuck in a poisned love triangle which destroys their relationship. Catherine was married to Edgar Linton despite that her and Heathcliff were in love which immensely destroyed Heathcliff. Heathcliff asserts that “Two words would comprehend my future –death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell. Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton 's attachment more than mine. If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn 't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.” This quote describes that Life without Catherine is not worth living for Heathcliff. The only emotion that begins to compensate for Heathcliff 's loss is bitterness. Despite her unfortunate choice for a husband, Heathcliff knows that Edgar is incapable of loving her the way he does.When

Throughout the novel Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff’s actions serve as a backlash against the class culture that made Catherine reject him. His manipulative actions to acquire Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights reflect that internal frustration. Early in the novel, Catherine’s relationship with Heathcliff becomes tenuous after she visits Thrushcross Grange and experiences the posh culture of the Linton family. Catherine’s transformation into a proper lady and her growing awareness of class culture ultimately lead her to believe that “it would degrade [her] to marry Heathcliff” (Brontë 81). Indeed, Catherine’s choice to marry Edgar illustrates how wealth and power can trump true love, a notion that tragically divides Heathcliff and Catherine throughout the novel. Even when Heathcliff returns to Wuthering Heights with a newfound wealth and appearance, he is unable to overcome his orphan heritage and win Catherine back. As a result, Heathcliff channels his frustration into a plot of revenge against the Linton household, telling Catherine that “I meditated this plan–just to have one glimpse of your face, a stare of surprise, perhaps, and pretended pleasure” (Brontë 97). Heathcliff’s loathing of the class system motivates him to systematically take over and destroy all that has separated him from Catherine. His acquisition of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange is an act to prove to Catherine – and to

Catherine determines that it will be more practical to marry Edgar. She explains her reasoning to Nelly, and Heathcliff overhears part of the conversation. He is heartbroken and leaves Wuthering Heights. Catherine goes into a fit, demanding that everyone search for Heathcliff and bring him home. She is quite upset and angry (even beating her young nephew, Hareton).

    Critics analyze and examine Wuthering Heights to obtain a deeper understanding of the message that Emily Bronte wants to convey. By focusing on the different literary elements of fiction used in the novel, readers are better able to understand how the author successfully uses theme, characters, and setting to create a very controversial novel in which the reader is torn between opposite conditions of love and hate, good and evil, revenge and forgiveness in  Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. There is no doubt that the use of conflictive characters such as Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and Edgar, with their interactions in the two different settings creates an

Like Heathcliff, she was also a wild spirit, intrinsically inclined toward Wuthering Heights, yet capable of adapting to high-society living. However, she could not continue to ignore her inherent affinity for both Heathcliff and the natural world. Only as she approached death did she finally admit that she “[didn’t] want…Edgar” or Thrushcross Grange to be her home (Brontë 127). Catherine’s frantic love for Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights manifested as the “brain fever” that led to her death, symbolizing the conflict between her effort to fit into society and her longing for a life free of constraints with Heathcliff (Brontë 132). Despite his newfound suffering, Heathcliff continues to love Catherine, even after her

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.

“She was much too fond of Heathcliff. The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him: yet she got chided more than any of us on his account.” (42). For Catherine and Heathcliff, love and punishment will always intertwine. Nelly, the servant, clearly states this observation to a tee. Their tortured love stretches afar, but would probably not do well under peaceful circumstances. They seem to thrive on drama. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a story of passionate love that encompasses two generations of two families: the Earnshaws and the Lintons.

Catherine’s intense love for Heathcliff combined with her attachment to Edgar is the reason for her pain and sickness throughout the novel. When asked by Nellie she says, “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I 'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.” (Bronte 82). Catherine’s love for these two men, especially Heathcliff, is the reason that many of the conflicts in Wuthering Heights occurred. When Heathcliff overhears Catherine’s decision to marry Edgar and runs away, Catherine waits for him in the cold rain for hours and catches the cold that eventually leads to her death. The fight between Heathcliff and Edgar causes her to go three days without eating and she weakens herself enough to get to the condition she’s in when she dies. Catherine battles with her decisions and feels deep emotions for both men. She marries Edgar, and despite their happiness, the relationship lacks the intense love that she feels with Heathcliff, as heard when she tells Nelly, “If all else perished and he [Heathcliff] remained, I should still continue to be; and, if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the Universe would turn to a mighty stranger” (Bronte 81). However, when she is with Heathcliff, the passion is what hurts her the most, as the two lovers juggle anger and joy because love and hate are so closely linked. Catherine’s love and

Throughout Wuthering Heights, Catherine is a very complex character that solicits plenty of different emotions from the readers and other characters. While most of the conflict that Catherine has to overcome is self-inflicted, it is still a very humane situation to be in that demands our sympathy. Catherine’s struggle is a that of a familial and relational skirmish, that nearly every person can realistically see themselves partaking in, and thus it begs for attention and sympathy. Catherine’s story is told from her former caretaker, Nelly, so the story that we hear may be very biased, and paints Catherine in a negative picture, but from independently analyzing the situation we can feel very sorry for Catherine and her situation.

Seeing Edgar block his progress towards a life with Catherine, Heathcliff loses his example of kindness and love. Heathcliff does not know how to handle his emotions, so he lashes out in aggression towards Isabella. In her letter to Nelly, Isabella confesses Heathcliff “[rouses]” as much terror in her as “a tiger or a venomous serpent”; later, Isabella laments “[giving] him her heart” only for him to “pinch it to death” (Bronte 144 & 170). Isabella falls victim to Heathcliff’s post-heartbreak rage and egotism. Ultimately, Heathcliff has a “desire to destroy others” due to his frustration from losing Catherine (Pittock 153). Heathcliff’s “full union” could “only be achieved” through a requited love with Catherine, so his “yearning for transcendence” legitimizes his “cruelties” (Pittock 154). Heathcliff sees full release from his own status as a dark-skinned orphan through Catherine: his idol of perfection and superiority.

Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous novels of the Victorian time period. Emily Brontë coins the intricacy of her creations in a multitude of admirable literary ways. In this tragic and twisted love story, Brontë presents her characters in pairs, conveys a unique story-telling method, and utilizes internal character turmoil in order to build the distinct characterization of many characters. The complexity of the characters’ beings leads way to a compelling love story that also serves as a great mystery.

This study will examine Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights, focusing on how evil is related to love. The study will explore the main relationship in the book, the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine. That relationship is full of both love and evil and will show us what happens when evil and love become tied to one another.

The central subject of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is the love between Heathcliff and Catherine. The novel sets the narrative up for Edgar Linton 's proposal to Catherine by having Catharine get bit by the Linton 's dog and then having her stay at Thrushcross Grange. During this time, she is learning how to be a proper lady all while becoming closer with the Linton 's. The novel sets the narrative up for Catherine 's death by showing Catherine 's relationship between Edgar and Heathcliff. Although, Catherine is married to Edgar she still has Heathcliff come around because she can 't be apart from him. This exceptionally shows during Catherine 's death when Heathcliff decides to stay with her, even though he knows Edgar is coming. The1998 film adaptation reveals the same central subject, however, it includes slightly different information and tools to portray the subject.

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.