It is a scientific fact that everything adapts: animal, plant, and human. The characters in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights demonstrate in a balanced and entertaining manner the idea that beings must adapt or be destroyed. Heathcliff shows the refusal to adapt and the resulting destruction. Catherine Earnshaw-Linton demonstrates the difference between outward adaptation and the full adaptation of the mind and soul. And Catherine Linton effortlessly embodies willingness to change. Wuthering Heights explores the idea that people must adapt or be destroyed through the characters of Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw-Linton, and Catherine Linton. In the character of Heathcliff, the idea that people must adapt is explored through his relationship …show more content…
Even though Heathcliff was unbearably mean to Cathy, she refused to be squashed. She made her own happiness by planting plants from Thrushcross Grange at Wuthering Heights and reading whenever she could. She also chose to rebel against Heathcliff’s tyrannical rules, even going as far as to fight him about them. Another key example of Cathy adapting is in her romantic relationships. When she was forced to marry Linton, she made the best of it, insisting to Heathcliff that, “you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery,” (page 240) because although she was not happy with Linton, she knew he loved her. And although Heathcliff wouldn’t allow Hareton to be with Cathy, she fought past that and they fell for each other. In Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, the idea of adaptation is explored through Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw-Linton, and Catherine Linton. Different manners of adaptation are explored: refusal to adapt, surface adaptation, and full adaptation. The way that Emily Brontë developed this idea is well-balanced and
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The complex and furious creation of Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights is a powerful novel that fiercely combines many of the greatest themes in literature, such as love and its intricacies, revenge and the its terrible effects, and the contrasts between nature and society. One of the most prevalent themes in this celebrated work is that of crime and punishment, or sin and retribution. One character in particular, Heathcliff, stands apart as a conduit for both of these, es-pecially his sins. His past crimes, both worldly and metaphysical, coincide with his punishments.
The social class imposed upon the people of the Victorian Era followed harmed people’s lives instead of improving them, as seen through the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. Through symbolism, characters, and settings, the negative effects of the class structure prevents people from living a life they want, thus causing people to adopt a persona instead of living their true
The majority of us who are sick of the overwhelming errands of keeping your home clean and keeping up the home furniture, duvets and in addition sleeping cushions, drapes and covers wish there was a cleaning pixie who might have clean this and more in a jiffy!
The gothic and often disturbing Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte’s classic novel that contains undeniably powerful writing that created her timeless love story. Andrea Arnold transformed her masterpiece into a cinematic rendition to recreate the wild and passionate story of the deep and destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.
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
In the Book X of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle concludes that a life of contemplation is the highest human activity. Aristotle states that the life of reason and contemplation will be the happiest because the gods are the happiest among all of us, and contemplation is characteristic of their own lives. Aristotle explained this statement in details when he states that the life of contemplation is more Godlike and since God is all-powerful it is safe to say that this life will lead us to the happiest and best life. These arguments are sound because he believes the life of contemplation to be the best life because it is the most Godlike. And since it is Godlike it can be considered the best life.
Similarly, Queenie Leavis regards Cathy‘s transformation as a crucial point in the novel, and believes that the change in her begins a new period in the protagonist‘s life (208). Catherine aims to get admiration and approval from her family and friends but without rejecting Heath cliff‘s love. This paradox is narrated as: In the place where she heard Heathcliff termed a ―Vulgar young ruffian, ―and ―worse than a brute,‖ she took care not to act like him; but at home She had small inclination to practice politeness that would only be laughed at, and restrain an unruly nature when it would bring her neither credit nor Praise (85). The external analysis not only explains Cathy‘s transformed behavior but also displays how other people see
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.
Love is a strong attachment between two lovers and revenge is a strong conflict between two rivals. In the novel Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses setting to establish contrast, to intensify conflict, and to develop character. The people and events of Wuthering Heights share a dramatic conflict. Thus, Bronte focuses on the evil eye of Heathcliff's obsessive and perpetual love with Catherine, and his enduring revenge to those who forced him and Catherine apart. The author expresses the conflict of Wuthering Heights with great intensity. Hence, she portrays a combination of crucial issues of romance and money, hate and power, and lastly
“Find what you love, and let it kill you.” said Bukowski. If love really destroys people, then “Wuthering Heights” by Emily Bronte is the best example. Bronte is a British poetess and novelist. She wrote only one novel which is Wuthering Heights. Her novel was and still controversial for critics. This essay will discuss how Wuthering Heights represents a unique literary work of art that resembles a crossover between romanticism and realism, the defying features of ideal romantic heroism regarding Catharine and Heathcliff, the unusual ending of the novel and eventually my personal evaluation of the ending along with an insight assessment of the cross racial relationship during the Victorian era.
Cathy and Hindley alter him into a vicious, lonely master: ‘“The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them”’. This shows that Heathcliff will not take revenge on Cathy directly, but will hurt those who are close to her. This is because Cathy married Edgar Linton and said that it would degrade her if Heathcliff was her husband. In addition, he will take
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.
The novel ‘Wuthering Heights’ (1847) by Emily Brontë and the film adaptation ‘Wuthering Heights’ (2011) by Andrea Arnold each convey respective values and perspectives reflective of the contrasting contexts and forms of each text. The novel, set in the Romantic period, is centred around two families living on the isolated, Yorkshire moors, and the explosive interactions between them. The concept of confinement contrasts against the freedom of nature throughout the novel. Nature is another key theme and a fundamental aspect of the Romantic period, used to present ideas such as rebellion and freedom. Finally, passion within human relationships is thoroughly explored through Catherine and Heathcliff’s relationship within the novel. However, as the film adaptation is a product of a contemporary post-feminist, post-colonial time period, these themes can now be explored through lenses such as racial discrimination, feminism, and human connection.
Love can make people say and do crazy things; it can completely consume them. Throughout Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte uses psychic pathology in the personalities of her characters. Unhealthy thoughts and actions take place because of the psychic pathology found in the novel. Each of the characters relates to the mental unhealthiness; the causes of their twisted mentality can vary. Mr. Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw’s relationship embodies the damaging mindsets that Bronte imbues throughout Wuthering Heights.