How Is Catherine A Victimizer

In this book, the author, Charlotte Bronte, has chosen to take an almost autobiographical approach to the plot. At

Charlotte Bronte, in her most famous novel, Jane Eyre, carefully utilizes different characters to influence and shape Jane’s personality throughout the story. Bronte uses varied actions and emotions to do this, but one of the main actions is abuse. Though not in every setting in the novel, abusive tormenting people are spread throughout the story that change Jane and her future. These ill-mannered actions can completely change Jane’s mindset, personality, and life-story. In Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre, cruel male protagonists alter Jane’s character through physical, psychological, and emotional abuse.

Another aspect which is relevant today and forever it shall remain relevant is selfishness. Catherine's selfish character was depicted when she wanted both Edgar and Heathcliff at the same time. In the beginning, she was introduced as a 'high spirited' character who was wild. However, she drastically changes throughout the book. When she hurts her leg and is forced to stay at Thrushcross Grange, she returns to Wuthering Heights as a well dressed and dignified lady. She was easily swayed to the superior lifestyle of the Lintons and began to look down upon Heathcliff. She even laughs at his rough and dirty appearance and says "I didn't mean to laugh at you. I could not hinder myself Heathcliff. Shake hands at least! What are you sulky for? It was only that you looked odd. If you wash you face and brush your hair, it would be alright. But you are

Catherine's pathetic ideal of a "picturesque" rendezvous is also the majority mentality at the time. Her realization of the cruel truth is but a glimpse of the futile art of war and

There are many parts of the book where we feel sympathy for Jane. In this essay I am going to discuss how Brontë creates sympathy for Jane in chapters one, two and seven. The main scenes include when Jane is treated cruelly by her cousin John, when she is

Brontë shapes her female character in such a way that she deals with her “hunger, rebellion and anger” (Gilbert and Guber, 1979: 360), without entering into a visible conflict with society. Thus, Jane does not openly challenge the Victorian patriarchal system, because she knows how to encompass the imposed standards without letting them run her

This story leads to the understanding of how it was expected for Catherine to make this choice because of the societal expectations at the time, rather than her own decision. Even so, she willingly accepted the sacrifice. Emotional guardianship is a critical aspect of Catherine’s character. Throughout the beginning of the play, Catherine had a fear that she did not open up about. She already had her father’s mathematical skills which at times she chose to hide to ignore the fact she could have inherited his mental illness.

Catherine notices how cruelly Hindley was treating Heathcliff. Nobody understood Heathcliff at first. One night while Hindley had a little but too much to drink, he dropped baby Hareton but luckily Heathcliff was there and saved the baby from getting hurt. Catherine was the only one in the house at, first who, liked being around Heathcliff and tried supporting him as much as she could. Nelly lived in Wuthering Heights along with them and she was the one that Catherine told everything to. Catherine always supported Heathcliff and he gave her his all because he adored Catherine. Nelly was reading between the lines and it seemed as if Catherine was using her emotions to anchor in Heathcliff to do anything for her. However she ran into a little bit of a problem. At first Heathcliff had a lower “social status” than Catherine and she told Nelly that she loved Heathcliff more than Edgar but Heathcliff would be a “degrade” compared to Edgar. Unfortunately, Heathcliff over heard the conversation between the two and he decided to leave Wuthering

Catherine’s growth is evident in the very first line of the novel as it states “No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her” (37). Catherine’s lowly heroine figure is made known instantly so that her development is much more apparent at the end of the novel. From the start of the novel Catherine is not a typical heroine, she is unorthodox in all facets of her life including the status of her parents. Catherine is initially also an incredibly naive character and this fuels her

1. Introduction The relationship between Isabella and Catherine is markedly more complex than most critics acknowledge. Critic Judith Pike, who writes a stunning defense of Isabella Linton's character, laments the fact that Isabella is often misrepresented in academia as merely, "a foil to Catherine and an instrument of revenge for Heathcliff" (352). Essential Literary Terms describes a foil as, "a character who contrasts with the protagonist in ways that bring out certain of his or her moral, emotional, or intellectual qualities" (131). By this definition one could argue that Isabella is a foil to Catherine; however, instead of highlighting Catherine's positive character traits, Isabella emphasizes the ways that Catherine languishes in arrested

Bronte has purposefully rejected the idea of a conventionally beautiful heroine; she told siblings ‘I will show you a heroine as plain and small as myself’. As a reader we have more respect for Jane because of these virtues, she has more emotion and does not appear placid. She questions everything, which is unfortunate at Gateshead as Mrs Reed doesn’t ‘like cavillers or questioners…there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner.’ Jane is shown to possess a strong and rich inner life, but we notice also how much she internalises and, when attacked, retreats and finds solace in solitude, in the world of art, and in contact with nature.

She thought of Catherine as being a "drama queen. " What this meant is that Catherine would do whatever it took to get what she wanted, and she often overreacted to things. For example, Catherine confesses her love for Heathcliff to Nelly. But she goes on to say how he is too dirty for her. When she says this, Nelly gets the idea of how Catherine thinks she is too good for him.

Catherine’s story begins with the description of her living in the village Fullerton where she has grown up with her family of nine siblings and her parents (who educated her over the years). It is then that family friends of the Morlands, the Allens, (a wealthy couple without children), proposal that Catherine comes along with them to visit the tourist town of Bath. Catherine is more than willing to take up the invitation but her expectations of the outside world are exaggerated due to her reading

The purpose of Bronte's novel is to demonstrate that women could go beyond the oppressive limitations of their environment and find fulfillment.  Jane's cries for love are mistaken as evil outburst by those who wish to keep women repressed.  Oppression of women was so great that women even in the home were expected to be nonproductive.  The ideal or perfect Victorian women were ones who adopted an image of repose or idleness, basically to show the world they could.  Nervousness and fainting were expected in women, and certain disagreeable topics or bad news could cause such traits to erupt.  By trusting in her passion, by trusting in her own abilities, and by making her own decisions, Jane is able to overcome the agony all around her.  Homeless, starving, and misjudged, Jane is

It is the opinion of this essay that the character of Heathcliff evolves a lot more than the character of Catherine. When we first meet Heathcliff, he was found on the streets of Liverpool by Catherine’s father who then adopts him into the family as one of his own. This would have been a dramatic change for Heathcliff. Then after experiencing this quality of life until the death of the father he is then cast into the role of a servant/labourer by Catherine’s brother who despises him. Finally, when Heathcliff hears part of the conversation between Catherine and Nelly, he hears Catherine plans to marry Edgar Linton as she could never marry Heathcliff. “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now”. (82) It is here Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights and returns three years later, a gentleman of means and of polite demeanour, not what you would expect from him. Here we can bring back the point that one’s environment dramatically affects one’s behaviour. Like Catherine, Heathcliff defies social norms expected of his gender. After he returns back from travelling having acquired great wealth and on the surface seems a changed man, he would be accepted into middle class society as he displays the characteristics expected of him. It is well described in the book to enforce the dramatic change in him for readers to understand how far he has come from