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The culture of set societal rules and conventions urges Catherine to be with Edgar, compelling her to be ‘the greatest woman of the neighbourhood’ due to them being relatively firm in their gentry’s status. This suggests the importance of her social status against the nature of her love for Heathcliff stating, ‘we would be beggars’, through employing the word ‘beggars’ the reader crafts the idea of her belief that she won’t survive without her status. Catherine admits ‘It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him’ Thus implying a swelling sense of her vanity and pride; enough to enjoy the position she gains from being married to Edgar despite her admiration for Heathcliff, being ‘more than (herself) than (she is)’and

Wuthering Heights is a novel which deviates from the standard of Victorian literature. The novels of the Victorian Era were often works of social criticism. They generally had a moral purpose and promoted ideals of love and brotherhood. Wuthering Heights is more of a Victorian Gothic novel; it contains passion, violence, and supernatural elements (Mitchell 119). The world of Wuthering Heights seems to be a world without morals. In Wuthering Heights, Brontë does not idealize love; she presents it realistically, with all its faults and merits. She shows that love is a powerful force which can be destructive or redemptive. Heathcliff has an all-consuming passion for Catherine. When she chooses to marry Edgar, his spurned love turns into a

Heathcliff is abused; his only source of love is his dearest Catherine, yet even that love cannot thrive in Heathcliff’s environment. The problem is not that his love is unrequited, but rather that Catherine believes she would fall to ruin if she were to be with Heathcliff “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him---because he's more

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights display of cultural and physical features of an environment affecting one’s character and moral traits is showcased through the first Catherine’s development throughout the novel. Catherine is forced to “adopt a double character”, as she lives as a rebellious, passionate woman on the turbulent Wuthering Heights, while behaving politely and courtly on the elegant Thrushcross Grange(Bronte, 48). Each of these environments also contains a love interest of Catherine’s, each man parallel with the characteristics of their environments: Heathcliff, the passionate and destructive, residing in Wuthering Heights, while the civilized and gentle Edgar inhabits Thrushcross Grange. Catherine’s development in character due to her setting significantly contributes to the theme that pursuing passionate love is dangerous, such as the love shared by Heathcliff and Catherine.

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.

Although marriage was expected during the Victorian Era, for many women it was considered a necessity in order to gain financial stability. Austen argues this issue through one of her characters, Charlotte, "When you have had time to think it over, I hope you will be satisfied with what I have done. I am not romantic, you know; I never was. I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collins' character, connection, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair as most people can boast on entering the marriage state. (22.17)" Charlotte is portrayed as a traditional Victorian Era woman because she places value on being supported by her husband and not love, which was very common for women during this

We can appreciate the affliction and despair of Heathcliff but still he is cruel and the sole guilty of their sorrow and pain. Catherine should have chosen him instead of Edgar so they would have been happy. But she destroyed their possibilities together and now Heathcliff, in one of his most cruel moments, tell Catherine that she deserves to die. Heathcliff is not a traditional gentleman, nor a man, and of course he is not a traditional lover. A common lover would wish his beloved to be at peace.

Romantic love takes over many forms in Wuthering Heights, the passion of Heathcliff and Catherine. The love relationship of Heathcliff and Catherine, byr is is not like the other lovers in the story. In this story self-centered took over the need of the characters. Heathcliff murders the love of his life Catherine, after her death his obsession only gets worse. Heathcliff tries for her love with money and his attempts to join the society to which she is drawn. He's trying to take control of this relationship by getting revenge on Catherine by killing her daughter and ruining her life. He still professing his love for her, for Heathcliff

In the book “Wuthering Heights”, Bronte explores how trapped a Victorian woman was because of society’s expectations. Society oppressed women’s rights and women rarely ended up happy. No matter what position a woman was in, they always stood at the losing end of a situation; whether a woman followed or rebelled against society’s expectation. Catherine Earnshaw conformed into society’s expectation when she married a man for social status. Isabella Linton rebelled against society’s expectation by marrying a man without her brother’s permission.

In the novel, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte discloses the plight of her characters through contrast. Bronte uses a mix of situations from the past and the present to relay to her readers the juxtaposition of her characters, most notably, between older and younger Catherine. Despite the apparent contrast of the timeframes, Bronte’s disclosure of older and younger Catherine situation gives insight into their contrasting results, which brings to surface the suppositional question of what if. Catherine is the blood daughter of Mr. Earnshaw, which gives her a position of some status within the social hierarchy of the Wuthering Heights estate. Heathcliff, a love interest of Catherine, was neglected by Hindley, Catherine’s brother, and essentially

The Suffering of the Women in Wuthering Heights It appears that Catherine's expectations are unrealistic especially when placed in the historical context. The novel is written during the Victorian era where the role of women in relation to marriage was that they were to be obedient, disciplined and faithful to their husband. Catherine does not fulfil any of these roles in the long term. Firstly, she marries Edgar for social and financial benefits.

Someone having their true lover marry another person whom they do not truly love would be a difficult and undesirable situation. How a person in a similar situation reacts to it, especially in the long term, can reveal a lot about their character. Such is the case with Heathcliff, the main character of Wuthering Heights, a novel written by Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights takes place from the late eighteenth century through the early 1800s (decade) within the two houses of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange and on the land surrounding them (1, 58). The two houses are located in England and are near the village of Gimmerton (1, 102).

The confinement that characters within the texts experience can be translated into modern values based on equality. In the novel, Catherine Earnshaw is constantly controlled by the circumstances that control her; she’s ruled by her father and Hindley throughout her childhood, restricted by her injury at Thrushcross Grange, and forced to marry Edgar because of her isolation from the rest of the world. Even in her passionate relationship with Heathcliff, which reflects the spontaneous, exciting nature of the Romantic period, Heathcliff

Heathcliff and Catherine’s love is “an attempt to break the boundaries of self and to fuse with another to transcend the inherent separateness of the human condition; fusion with another will by uniting two incomplete individuals

This essay will analyse how gender roles are represented in Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Height’s by looking at the characters of Cathy and Heathcliff. By analysing these two characters it will be clear that the protagonists challenge social conformity during the Victorian period in England. To fully realise this it is important to first understand what the prescribed roles were that they were challenging. This will be achieved through close readings of the text and references made to secondary sources to provide evidence that this opinion has been fully investigated. It will be clear by the end to see that the characters challenge the roles expected of their sex during this time and together they challenge social norms. This essay will answer ‘yes’