People enter another’s life for a reason. This saying is commonly used in regards to a person that one cherishes in his or her life, like a spouse, child or friend. However, in terms of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, this saying is not so endearing when put into the context of Heathcliff’s relationship with his ex-lover’s child, Cathy. Heathcliff believes that Cathy has been put into his life in order that he may manipulate her into fulfilling his revenge on the Linton family. Meanwhile, Edgar, Cathy’s father seeks to protect Cathy from Heathcliff’s evil influence. While Edgar Linton does have a distasteful history with Heathcliff, Edgar solely wants what is best for his daughter, even if that does mean letting Heathcliff get his revenge. …show more content…
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). Mr. Linton wished solely to protect his daughter from the man who hates him. Cathy would have been mentally and also perhaps physically abused by the wretchedness that is Mr. Heathcliff at an earlier stage of her life had her father not taken the precautions to keep he separated from Heathcliff and his kindred. Mr. Linton even admitted to having wanted to “explain this [situation], some time, as [Cathy] grew older, and [he was] sorry [he] delayed it!” (Brontë). It was not …show more content…
Even though Edgar originally kept Cathy away from her cousin so that she may not run into Mr. Heathcliff, Edgar again unselfishly thought of what was best for his daughter’s heart and future and allowed her to pursue a relationship with Linton. Edgar while talking with Nelly exclaimed, “ What can I do for Cathy? How must I quit her? I’d not care one moment for Linton being Heathcliff’s son; nor for his taking her from me, if he could console her for my loss. I’d not care that Heathcliff gained his ends, and triumphed in robbing me of my last blessing! But should Linton be unworthy…I cannot abandon her to him!” (Brontë). Mr. Linton, knowing that he will die soon, set aside his own inner disgust of Heathcliff in order that his daughter may find in Linton a man who would take care of her and love her. Instead of allow Cathy go to Wuthering Heights where she would see Mr. Heathcliff, instead Edgar allowed his daughter to correspond with young Linton at his own home and through letters. Although Edgar took control over Cathy’s love-life with Linton, he had justification in doing so to keep her safe and help to build a happy life for his daughter after his
He couldn't have Catherine so he takes Linton to his home almost like a revenge to take things away from Edgar because Edgar had Heathcliff's true love, Catherine. Heathcliff really didn't want Linton, he took him to just have him and to hurt Edgar.
In this novel Edgar is seen as the gullible guy who gave all his love to a woman that was in love with another man. He is seen as Cathy’s chance for higher social class and money, but not many see him as the man who gave everything for the love of the woman of his dreams, and who fought for a chance to win her heart. Readers often see him as a coward or weak
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.
In the story Wurthering Heights by Emily Bronte there are several reasons why Healthcliff would want Cathy under his control. One of the reasons is so he can force her to marry his son. Also, Edgar wants to keep his daughter, Cathy, away from Healthcliff because he knows how evil Healthcliff can become. Also, Healthcliff was the one that his wife was cheating on him with. In conclusion, they both justify how they think each other is right there reasons why.
Another one of the many things Heathcliff wanted was power. He seduced and married Isabella Linton, not out of love, but out of selfish thoughts of abusing her to get revenge against her brother, Edgar because he married Heathcliff’s lover. When Isabella died, Heathcliff’s son Linton was handed over to him; Heathcliff forced Linton to marry Edgar and Catherine’s daughter, Catherine – or Cathy – Linton. When Ellen found letters written between the two, Linton’s letters “rendered natural,
Sensitivity is not an object of Heathcliff’s appeal, and ceases to be when he attains the title of landlord. Evidence of his mental condition lies in the incident where he ruthlessly kidnaps Cathy Linton for his son, and holds her hostage. Environmental fostering due to the seemingly schizotypal Edgar, according to the servant Nellie Dean, contributed to the coldness of Heathcliff
She wants to up her social class and Heathcliff will not help with it so, Catherine marries Edgar Linton. “And he will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood, and I shall be proud of having such a husband.” (76) In this statement it only
In Wuthering Heights, Brontë presents Linton Heathcliff as arguably one of the most unlikeable, unsympathetic characters of the novel: he is often described as 'peevish', is constantly unwell ('faint-hearted creature') and resorts to fits of coughing when he doesn't get his way. He plays a key role in Heathcliff's revenge plot – marrying Cathy to award Heathcliff control of both Thrushcross Grange and the Heights (although this eventually fails) – and reveals its futility in the mean time. The second generation of the novel offers many parallels, albeit less wild and powerful ones, with the first generation: the second Cathy is a milder, gentler version of her mother and Hareton has a definite likeness to Heathcliff (their degradation, appearance etc. – however their difference lies in Hareton's pivotal capacity for forgiveness); Linton, however, is presented as an even more insufferable, pathetic version of Edgar Linton: he 'might have been taken for [Edgar's] younger brother, so strong was the resemblance'.
The parents of Cathy Linton were Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar Linton. Catherine grew up with a young orphan boy named Heathcliff. Catherine and Heathcliff were inseparable as children, bonded by the loss of her father figure and growing up in a household lacking warmth. As time progressed Catherine grew to be a beautiful young girl and Heathcliff declines to a mistreated young boy enslaved by forced fealty. Catherine is inclined to marry a young man named Edgar Linton however she believes she loves Heathcliff. In the text she states “I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven…. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him” (Catherine, Chapter 9). However, Catherine goes on
Heathcliff is so desperate for acceptance that he is willing to cheat people to gain the property he craves. By doing so he hopes to show Catherine that he is worthy of her, a landowner in his own right. After Catherine accepts Edgar's proposal, she seeks out Nelly and tells here that "[I]t would degrade [her] to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how [she] love[s] him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more [herself] than [she] [is]. Whatever [their] souls are made of, his and [hers] are the same, and Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire." (Page 74, lines 29 - 33).
Edgar Linton, normally gentle, also uses physical violence when he fights with Heathcliff over Catherine Earnshaw, now his wife Catherine Linton. Like Hindley, Edgar does not realize that violence cannot produce love. His fight with Heathcliff results in Catherine’s insanity and her eventual death. Catherine, too, is not flawless. When Nelly, under Hindley’s orders, chaperones Edgar’s visit with Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine is furious and strikes Nelly. When her nephew Hareton weeps at this abusive display, Catherine seizes the child and shakes him. She then strikes Edgar when he tries to stop her. The root of Catherine’s violence is not the same as the one that plague Hindley and Edgar: she does not physically hurt her family because she wants to be loved. She feels that she is already loved by everyone, but she
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.
Hindley and Mr. Linton fear Heathcliff’s malevolence and violence, trying to avoid him as much as possible because of it. Mr. Linton forbids his daughter, Cathy, from visiting Wuthering Heights because he does not want Heathcliff to hurt or harm her. Hindley attempted to murder Heathcliff because of his malevolence (167). Heathcliff’s malevolence may be a symptom of his grief after Catherine died. Catherine was his only and true love, and her death may have caused him to become slightly crazy.
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
Cathy Linton, speaking above, displays the ability to love someone even when they do not deserve it. She draws her greatest strengths from love and kindles a fire of hatred towards Heathcliff because she has fallen for Linton.