Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte

In this passage, Edgar is described as a ‘sleepless guardian’ of Catherine’s body, and stays with her until the point of exhaustion, when he finally leaves for a few hours to sleep. During this time, Heathcliff lingers outside and waits for Edgar to leave; when he finally does, Heathcliff sneaks inside to say goodbye to Catherine. This directly shows the contrast between the two men.Similarly, Edgar grieves by isolating himself in his library, while Heathcliff grieves by taking out his anger on

Heathcliff resents her scorn. He desires to regain her approval. He attempts to be “decent” and “good” for her sake (Brontë 40). However, his attempt to be decent fails miserably. He resents the attentions that Catherine gives to Edgar. Catherine would rather wear a “silly frock” and have dinner with “silly friends” than ramble about the moors with him (Brontë 50). Heathcliff keeps track of the evenings Catherine spends with Edgar and those that she spends with him. He desperately wants to be with Catherine. When Catherine announces to Nelly her engagement to Edgar, Heathcliff eavesdrops, but leaves the room when he “heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him” (Brontë 59). Catherine has spurned his love, choosing Edgar over him. Heathcliff cannot bear this rejection. The love he possesses for her transcends romantic and filial love (Mitchell 124). He feels that he is one with her (Mitchell 123).

Although characterized as a violent individual, Heathcliff’s love for Catherine exemplifies a lot of aspects of sympathy. The sorrow he was faced with when he overheard Catherine said that marrying him would degrade her, ultimately resulting in his

We can also see this influence on Heathcliff’s person in contrast with Edgar Lindon, when Nellie describes the differences between the two men ‘it was like exchanging a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful fertile valley; and his voice and greeting were as opposite as his aspect."

1. As it deteriorates and dies, Heathcliff and Catherine’s relationship serves as a cautionary tale and a witness to love’s destructive nature. Their love for one another is an addiction. Catherine long for Heathcliff and states, “I wish I could hold you.. till we were both dead” (Brontë 357). Catherine understands their relationship as “a source of little visible delight, but necessary” (Brontë 183). She views herself as one in the same with her lover, “Nelly, I am Heathcliff” (Brontë 183). She is obsessed with him-- regardless of her relationship with Edgar, Heathcliff never ceases to occupy her thoughts. If she were to lose Heathcliff, she would effectively go through withdrawal; their love is an addiction. She wants possession of Heathcliff

After Heathcliff’s heart had been broken by Catherine Earnshaw, he could not bear the pain that he was enduring. Heathcliff became vile and full of vengeance. Edgar Linton was the motive behind the vengeance that filled him. Catherine, Edgar’s new wife, loved both Edgar and Heathcliff. Unfortunately for her marrying both of the men was not an option; therefore, she chose Edgar. Catherine overlooked Heathcliff because she thought that marrying Heathcliff would degrade her image. When Heathcliff heard the heart wrenching news, he ran away and returned three years later.

Heathcliff grows up as a trouble maker; he is now an evil man whose wrath ensnares everybody around him. The catalytic moment that sends Heathcliff over the boiling point is when the love of his life, Catherine Earnshaw, choses his biggest rival, Edgar, to marry her. After this key moment in the novel, Heathcliff is never the same character. Heathcliff obsession with Catherine Earnshaw turns into a potent wrath and it is clearly shows in this quote by Heathcliff, “I seek no revenge you … That’s not the plan – The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them – You are

While Catherine is pregnant, Edgar and Heathcliff have a fight, causing Catherine to lock herself in her room where she leaves her window open, to have a view of the moors and Wuthering Heights that remind her of her childhood and Heathcliff, and starves herself. Finally someone gets inside her room and realizes she has become very ill. Since Catherine is so ill, her recovery isn’t expected to go smoothly. Heathcliff visits Catherine and they profess their love for each other once

As Heathcliff and Catherine grew up together, the two engaged in an intimate friendship, but it came to an end once Catherine chose Edgar, a wealthier man, over Heathcliff. Heathcliff fled the town, only to come back with one thing on his mind: revenge. Heathcliff befriends old enemies such as Hinton to gain property, boost his reputation in town, and acquire wealth to try to compete with Edgar. Instead of hunting and fighting for Catherine’s heart, Heathcliff decides to marry Isabella, Edgar’s sister, to infuriate Catherine. Ultimately, Catherine commits suicide because she cannot live with Heathcliff being married to someone else.

As children, the two were equals playing with each other, but that ended upon Cathy’s stay with Edgar after an accident. Upon her return Heathcliff acts colder, as “...he had ceased to express his fondness for her in words, and coiled with angry suspicion from her girlish caresses, as if conscious there could be no gratification in lavishing such marks of affection on him” (66). By beginning to emotional remove himself from Cathy’s actions, Heathcliff prepares to fight for dominance over Cathy’s time and affection. Cathy is somewhat aware of Heathcliff’s animosity against Edgar by attempting to hide his visits to her. Cathy tries to equalize all three of them by justifying her marriage to Edgar with “‘... if I marry Linton, I can aid Heathcliff to rise and place him out of my brother’s power’” (79). Consequently, her reasoning to bring Heathcliff out of degradation affirms his lower social status, and Edgar’s and her’s mutual social superiority by birth. Social norms dictate Cathy’s reasoning as well, to marry within one’s social class, which Heathcliff is not. Though socially inferior, Heathcliff manages to have power over Cathy by dramatically affecting her emotions upon his leave, since she “burst into uncontrollable grief,” (85) and long after he leaves, Cathy remains so, “Catherine had seasons of gloom and silence...never subject to depression of

Also adding to the fact that the two manors are better understood as two different worlds. Even though Catherine grew up in Heathcliff’s world, her move has caused her to change making their love impossible to pursue. Since then, she comes to spend more time with Edgar while cutting time to be with Heathcliff. She explains to Nelly her reasons for taking Edgars hand in marriage “the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and every- thing he touches, and every word he says—I love all his looks, and all his actions, and him entirely, and altogether” (Bronte) It is undeniable that her love for Edgar is based off his prestige and not entirely for who he is.

Brontë’s Catherine loves the wild Heathcliff and desires defiance of rules and limitations. However, unlike Gretchen, Catherine conforms to social norms by marrying the dull Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff. Isabella becomes passionate about diverging from societal norms and the ability to making her own decisions. With these desires in mind, she marries an abusive man – even when Catherine warns her about Heathcliff.

To add, Catherine is not knowing of what she wants to do and has people telling her what to do. She implies, “Nelly, help me to convince her of her madness. Tell her what Heathcliff is…”(Bronte 87). Catherine knows the she wants to be with Mr. Heathcliff but people(like Isabella) who only want her to be with Edgar. This could also be demonstration of sign

Catherine gives Edgar rather cold half comforting, half mocking words, after Heathcliff was sent to the attic. Nelly initially calls her unfeeling and selfish, for not jumping to Heathcliff's aid. She retracts this almost a second later when Catherine starts crying and dives under the table to hide it. Later, Heathcliff overhears Catherine talking about not wanting to marry him, and runs away. While Heathcliff is away, Edgar and Catherine start up a more romantic relationship and eventually marry. Nelly says that the biggest difference with Catherine after this is that she is better

In addition to their strong relationship, there were evident signs of a distinct bond forming between them: romance. Heathcliff's deep adoration for Catherine was later masked by anger and jealousy because, despite their affection for each other, Catherine chose to marry Edgar Linton due to his social status and richness. Heathcliff's rage was obvious, for his course of action included the idea of making the situation even. Consequently, Heathcliff did what Catherine had previously done and proceeded to marry Edgar's sister, Isabella, without loving her, which inflicted pain upon Catherine's unhappy, tied-down self, so now Catherine felt what Heathcliff had felt before. Additionally, he continued to spread suffering to the people who had hurt him. Heathcliff's satisfaction within people's suffering would not allow him to accept that he was meant to stop at some point because he wanted to even out the lump that was created in his throat every single time he was abused, and this is significant because it permits the reader to understand the purpose behind his actions and how different emotions cloud people's judgmewas