Was Heathcliff Responsible For Catherine's Death

In this passage of Wuthering Heights, Brontë expresses the moment of Heathcliff's reaction to Catherine Linton's death. In this particular passage, Emily Brontë utilizes syntax to illustrate Heathcliff's obsessive love for the late Catherine Linton. Brontë expresses Heathcliff's deep, hidden emotions through the use of syntax. In the beginning, few questions are asked by Heathcliff, such as if "she died like a saint," to convey his curiosity about his true love's death (Brontë 164).

During his early years Heathcliff didn’t deceive those as much, but towards his teenager years his adopted sister Catherine shows how deceitful she can be. Catherine is attacked by a dog and is required to stay at this family called the Lintons for five weeks. While she is there she meets a young man named Edgar and hides her “wild side” to impress Edgar. “Catherine

The front parking lot was full. I just couldn’t get a break. I drove around to the back and found a spot behind the depot. My knuckles turned white as I gripped the steering wheel. If Mother caught me there’d be no mercy, but as long as I made it to the hospital to see my dad, I didn’t care. I said a quick prayer for courage, and exited the

Since its publication, Wuthering Heights has intrigued its readers; a love story gone wrong, twisted by vengeance and heartbreak. Many important factors of the novel are displayed in the portion of the novel narrated by Ellen. The passage in Wuthering Heights in which Catherine Linton’s funeral is described is vital in explaining important relationships in the novel, particularly the relationship between Heathcliff and Edgar Linton.

In Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Heathcliff’s strong love for Catherine guides his transformation as a character. While Heathcliff enters the story as an innocent child, the abuse he receives at a young age and his heartbreak at Catherine’s choice to marry Edgar Linton bring about a change within him. Heathcliff’s adulthood is consequently marked by jealousy and greed due to his separation from Catherine, along with manipulation and a deep desire to seek revenge on Edgar. Although Heathcliff uses deceit and manipulation to his advantage throughout the novel, he is never entirely content in his current situation. As Heathcliff attempts to revenge Edgar Linton, he does not gain true fulfillment. Throughout Wuthering Heights, Brontë uses Heathcliff’s vengeful actions to convey the message that manipulative and revenge-seeking behaviors will not bring a person satisfaction.

Heathcliff’s obsession with Catherine serves as a drive that escalates his sense of revenge. This obsession manifests itself as Heathcliff grows infuriated at how Catherine chooses Edgar over him, uncovering the pivotal reason for why he chooses to seek vengeance on Edgar. In the middle of the book, Heathcliff venomously declares, “The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out, and drank his blood” (Bronte 148). Heathcliff goes through life so full of spite and hatred that an apathetic and wicked nature replaces his humanity. He elopes with someone who he does not care for, abuses his own offspring, and propagates agony to those around him.

1 of every 4 African-American males can expect to go to prison in this decade. Racism and Injustice take place in many aspects in life, the justice system being one of them. The book To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee explores this through the eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, two children who live in the times of the Great Depression. Throughout the book, people show their aversion for colored people in many ways. One large chunk of the book is devoted to the trial of a black man named Tom Robinson, and the broken law system.

When Heathcliff returns three years later, his love for Catherine motivates him to enact revenge upon all those who separated him from her. Since he last saw Catherine, he has “fought through a bitter life”; he “struggled only for [her]” (Brontë 71). Nelly observes a “half-civilized ferocity” in Heathcliff’s brows (Brontë 70); she views him as “an evil beast…waiting his time to spring and destroy” (Brontë 79). Heathcliff’s obsessive love for Catherine becomes a menacing threat. Heathcliff reproaches Catherine because she “treated [him]

During Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë illustrates Heathcliff as childish in the way of which he loves Catherine. The way Brontë does this is making revenge a key aspect of Heathcliff's personality and characteristic. Heathcliff is madly in love with Catherine, his childhood crush. Catherine is married to Edgar Linton, which makes Heathcliff angry so he sets out to get revenge on Edgar. Catherine’s reasoning for not wanting to marry Heathcliff is because he has a low social class.

While at Thrushcross Grange, she grows infatuated with Edgar, despite her love for Heathcliff. Edgar came from an upper class family as well and took care of her when she was in a dog accident. This leads to her acceptance of Edgar Linton’s marriage proposal despite her statements regarding her love for Heathcliff. Heathcliff overhears unfortunate passages of Catherine's discourse and disappears for a period during which he mysteriously makes his fortune and changes irrevocably from the person he was. Vengeance consumes him, and Heathcliff attempts to destroy the lives of those who wronged him, (as well as their children). Ultimately, Heathcliff’s bitterly executed vengeance is effaced by a love between Hareton and Cathy that mirrors Heathcliff’s own love for Catherine. Hareton is Catherine’s nephew and Cathy is Catherine’s daughter, which makes the two first cousins.

Edgar, as Cathy’s father, has always wanted what was best for his daughter and keeping her away from the wicked character that is Mr. Heathcliff is one of those measures that he can take to protect his daughter. After Cathy meets Mr. Heathcliff and Linton at Wuthering Heights for the first time Edgar questions her, “The you believe I care more for my own feelings than yours, Cathy? No, it was not because I disliked Mr. Heathcliff; but because Mr. Heathcliff dislikes me; and is a most diabolical man, delighting to wrong and ruin those he hates, if they give him the slightest opportunity. I knew that you could not keep up an acquaintance with your cousin, without being brought into contact with him; and I knew he would detest you , on my account; so, for your own good, and nothing else, I took precautions that you should not see Linton again” (Brontë).

Emily Bronte’s only published novel, Wuthering Heights, is a story filled with love, death, and revenge. Almost every character in the story dies, with the last being Heathcliff; however, the death of one particular character is what made the novel, this death is what sent all the other characters spiraling out of control and made the book incredibly interesting to the reader. The death of Catherine, Edgars wife, Heathcliff’s true love, Nelly’s employer, and little Cathy’s mother, is what sent the novel into the kind of drama no one can resist. As like with any death, everyone in the novel including Edgar, Heathcliff, and Nelly, all had a different reaction to the death of Catherine, some clearly worse than others.

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

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.

The text in the Qur’an and in the Bible share many of the same stories and messages, but they also share many notable differences. In the Qur’an, the prophet Muhammad “received communications directly from God” (858) and every message or story received from God was added to the Qur’an. The messages he received from God were not written down at first, but it was Muhammad’s duty to spread the word received from God verbally to many people. The Qur’an was later put into words during the rule of Abu Bakr. The Bible, however, was written by many different people in many different versions. Like the Qur’an, the Bible depicts many different narratives that are written in third person. The narrator both the Qur’an and in the Bible are God, but spoken