Wuthering Height by Emily Bronte

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.

Wuthering Heights is a novel whose main character is said to have a double significance. He is said to be both the dispossessed and the dispossessor, victim of class hatred and arch – exploiter, he simultaneously occupies the roles of working class outsider and brutal capitalist. Heathcliff has all these characteristics because of his experiences. He is a character moulded by his past.

When a woman is in love, she unconsciously loses herself in the admits of invisibility. Her worth and identity is hidden behind the shadow of her lover. She is no longer known as her own individual, rather she takes on her partner’s possessive title. He becomes her name; her sense of existence. This has always been the norm of romantic love in patriarchal society. Man is the center of the relationship, she gives her all to him until there is no trace of her distinctness, only her partner. In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Height, she expands on this one sided romanticized ideal of love as it pushes women to be indistinguishable from their male counterpart through the relationship of Catherine and Heathcliff. Despite her strong will, Catherine

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

Presently, society is constructed in such a way that the upper class and the lower class cannot work to change places unless they are extremely fortunate. The ladder of society has always existed in this manner, and many authors have chosen to explore what pushing the constraints of a set society will do. In Wuthering Heights, a novel by Emily Brontë, the social constraints of the community in which the characters live, are constantly being pushed as the characters change social classes, through marriage and hard work, and in the treatment of other characters. The actions are often motivated by a superficial impression; many interactions between the characters are based on the influence of social classes, and the changes that shift the characters from one social class to another which Brontë occurs as an overlaying theme in the story. Brontë illustrates the differences in the classes using the literary devices of imagery, symbols, dialogue, and irony. A change in the social class for a certain character leads to a change in the interactions with that character.

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 Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, Catherine Earnshaw is in love with Heathcliff, a poor orphan who has become her foster brother. Their inseparable bond helps them survive the harshness and cruelty of their lives. However, wealthy Edgar Linton is in love with her as well, and Catherine must choose between them. Cathy sacrifices her future with Heathcliff so that she can marry Edgar Linton. This reveals that she is selfish enough to want a comfortable life at the expense of her "true love", but that she is also pragmatic and knows that having more money will help Heathcliff into a better social situation.

Much of the charm and allure of Wuthering Heights stems from Heathcliff, one of the main characters and the destined lover of Catherine Earnshaw. He is passionate and short-tempered, and he is also very prideful of himself despite the fact that he was considered a “dirty, ragged, black-haired child” and a “gipsy brat” (Bronte 37). Heathcliff is insecure as a young boy. At first, Heathcliff believes himself to be inferior to Edgar Linton, a light-skinned, dapper boy that was his rival for Catherine Earnshaw’s love. He wishes that he had “light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as [Edgar Linton] [would] be,” (Bronte 56).

The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte tells a story of a man named Heathcliff, who spends his whole life fueled by jealousy, revenge, and love. As a young boy, he and a girl named Catherine spend a lot of their time together. Heathcliff falls in love with Catherine and wants to pursue a marriage with her, however Catherine has other plans. Catherine is in love with a man named Edgar, but for all the wrong reasons. Thus begins the story of Heathcliff’s revenge.

Bronte employs repetition in Wuthering Heights as Heathcliff's suppression towards Hareton repeats Hindley's suppression towards Heathcliff. The relationship most affected by the views of social class is that of Heathcliff's and Catherine's. But for social class Catherine would have married Heathcliff but by marrying Edgar Linton she will be "the greatest woman of the neighborhood" (81). As one of the aristocratic class, Catherine believes that marrying someone like Heathcliff "would degrade" her (92) and repeating that they would be "beggars" (81). So it is social class that is the main reason behind Heathcliff's anger and he turned to a positive anger and he admits that he "have fought through a bitter life since I ]he[ last heard your voice…for I ]he[ struggled only for you ]

Martha Nussbaum describes the romantic ascent of various characters in Wuthering Heights through a philosophical Christian view. She begins by describing Catherine as a lost soul searching for heaven, while in reality she longs for the love of Heathcliff. Nussbaum continues by comparing Heathcliff as the opposition of the ascent from which the Linton’s hold sacred within their Christian beliefs. Nussbaum makes use of the notion that the Christian belief in Wuthering Heights is both degenerate and way to exclude social classes.

Before Heathcliff gained his wealth, Catherine told Ellen that “it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am” (Brontё 69). Catherine uses Edgar’s marriage proposal to stay comfortable in a lifestyle like the one she grew up in, never expecting Heathcliff to gain considerable wealth. When Heathcliff returned to Wuthering Heights, Catherine’s resentment towards her new marriage to Edgar and continuation of her romance with Heathcliff demonstrates the theme of love causing hate. Even though Catherine appears pernicious through her bullying of Edgar, Catherine’s missed opportunity to marry Heathcliff after he attained wealth rouses sympathy for the forbidden

            When hate is generated into the conflict, it always induces power and becomes domination to the situation. Three years had passed when Heathcliff expatriated Wuthering Heights, comes back as a rich man and finds that Catherine, the only woman he loves on earth, married with Edgar Linton.

While the proud, wealthy male protagonists of these novels offer their half of the link between the two novels, they each find themselves tormented by the alluring, independent nature of their romantic, female counterparts Catherine and Elizabeth, who resist equally, though differently, in being defined by marriage. For women, it is a perilous task to obtain a suitable husband who improves the status and wealth of their family, and perfecting every aspect of a model woman to achieve this. This enormous pressure is well acquainted with women of high society wishing to preserve their status through arranged marriage as well as women of lower societal ranking wanting to improve their quality of living through a wealthy husband. These two novels offer an example from each side: Catherine Earnshaw of Wuthering Heights as the wealthy woman of great expectations who is pressured to marry Edgar Linton for her family’s interest, and Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice of lesser class, who is expected to compete with countless others for the attention of a few scattered bachelors. With marriage being the utmost priority for these women, love is a luxury few can spare. Catherine, due to her expectations in marriage for preservation of wealth, feels helpless in her refusal of her true love Heathcliff, who is not of enough notable rank to compete with her other suitors (Hagan 146). Oppositely, Elizabeth is of lower class and expected to accept the hand of most notable rank in

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).