Wuthering Heights Oxymoron Quotes

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.

   "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff" (81)" These words, uttered by Catherine, in the novel Wuthering Heights are for me the starting point in my investigation into the themes of love and obsession in the novel. Catherine has just told her housekeeper that she has made up her mind to marry Edgar Linton, although she is well aware that her love for him is bound to change as time passes. That she is obsessed by her love for Heathcliff she confirms in the above quotation and by saying that she will never, ever be separated from him. Why does she not marry him then? Well, she has

Upon hindsight following the two novels, Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein, one would label the monster and Heathcliff to be nothing short of villainous characters. Throughout each individual novel the two leads perform heinous actions that should leave readers feeling repulsed, and with no ounce of sympathy towards the principal characters; nonetheless, it is impossible not to. Heathcliff and the monster are not evil but rather characters to sympathize, both are the products of their environment and correspondingly, although for divergent reasons, are motivated by the supereminent emotions—love and hate.

This quote represents the first point of the book in which Lockwood realizes the Heights hold a secret no one wants him to know about. It stirs up his curiosity about the past affairs at Wuthering Heights and leads him to inquire about the story. He doesn’t know why this woman’s name is scratched into the wall so many times with such precision and curiosity. This leads him to investigate the woman and her past relationship with Heathcliff, who loved her enough to ask her to haunt him.

In the book Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte, there are many characters which affect the outcome of the entirety of the novel. If one character was to be removed from any book, there would be major changes in the events of said book. In this essay, the one character removed from Wuthering Heights is Hareton Earnshaw. The son of Hareton Earnshaw, this character is revealed to be the silver lining of hope to the never ending tragedies of this novel. By eliminating this Hareton, Wuthering Heights as a whole will darken and fall into an endless cycle of despair. Hareton plays a minimal role in Heathcliff’s revenge and is rather used as a pawn the entire time, however, his existence was crucial to how events played out.

In Wuthering Heights, the character Heathcliff is quite passionately in love with Catherine Earnshaw/Linton. His love for her overpowers his life, his desire to live comes from her, and his need to get his revenge on her and the those who wronged him. Heathcliff wishes Catherine torment. He wants her to suffer always, but states he cannot live without her, and that she is his soul. Heathcliff’s quote parallels to an earlier chapter in the narrative, when Catherine claimed to Nelly that her and Heathcliff are one in the same.

Nelly & Cathy are locked in the kitchen of Wuthering Heights while Heathcliff takes his revenge

The ugliness of human nature is undoubtedly shown through toxic relationships in Wuthering Heights. They toxicity can be shown through almost every character relationship. The bain of toxic relationships can be shown right in the beginning of the novel with Hindley and Heathcliff. They immediately get off on the wrong foot all because one of them chooses to let their ugliness take over. Hindley is extremely jealous of Heathcliff, “...and is subject to Hindley's jealousy almost right away” (Galt). His jealousy sparks from the fact that his father seems to favour Heathcliff over him. This does Heathcliff no favours as it causes Hindley to be cruel and brutal towards him. Infact, on several occasions Hindley can be found almost abusing Heathcliff, "Take my colt, Gipsy, then!" said young Earnshaw. "And I pray that he may break your neck: take him, and he damned, you beggarly interloper! and wheedle my father out of all he has.” (Bronte 4) and “‘ Off dog!’ cried Hindley, threatening him with an iron weight used for weighing potatoes and hay.” (Bronte 45). The abuse and hatred that Heathcliff receives from such a young age cause him to give the same treatment in the other relationships in his life. In Heathcliff’s relationship with Isabella he can be seen showing the same abuse towards her, Heathcliff seized, and thrust Isabella from the room; and returned muttering—"I have no pity! I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It is a moral teething; and grind

Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow!” (Bronte 1). Lockwood quickly misjudges Heathcliff on their first encounter, as a reader we understand and know that Heathcliff is definitely not what a true “capital fellow” is supposed to represent. In the article, Allan R. Brink proposes that, “Lockwood rattles off one misinterpretation after another about the identity of the people in Wuthering Heights and their (the presumes) normal relations with each other” (Brick 81), Lockwood has a difficult time understanding the issues within Wuthering Heights, he is perplexed by the fact that the cannot comprehend the assumptions of Heathcliff as a character. Notwithstanding, It is understandable having the fact that he in fact isn't from around the area, and is just trying to meet this landowner, and happens to run into interesting events that lead him to want to know a little background

In the novel by Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights, one of the main characters, named Heathcliff Earnshaw, is in search for justice and vengeance throughout his whole life. First, Heathcliff wants justice by mistreating his brother’s son the way he mistreated when they were children. Also he searches justice by destroying his lover’s husband and taking Thrushcross Grange as his property. Furthermore, it is noticeable that Heathcliff’s perspective of “justice” is actually revenge.

Revenge In Wuthering Heights If someone ruined your life and you had the chance to ruin theirs back, would you? When hurt, many people’s first instinct is to take revenge on their oppressor. Revenge means to inflict harm on someone for a wrong suffered at their hands.

This quote, proclaimed in chapter eleven, is said by Heathcliff in response to Edgar Linton, during a heated argument regarding his rash and volatile treatment toward both Linton and his wife (Catherine). Prior to this, Linton expresses, “I’ve treated you infernally- and you’ll take your revenge! How will you take it, ungrateful brute?” (112), to which Heathcliff responds that his desires of revenge are not to be directed toward Linton or his wife.

Novels often use the emotion of hate to create tension and distress in the plot. Wuthering Heights uses Heathcliff’s disdain for the other characters to add conflict to the story. Wuthering Heights examines the source of Heathcliff’s hate as well as its effects on the other characters throughout the story. Heathcliff’s relationships with other characters also suggests the universal theme that breeds hatred.

Bronte, The author of the Wuthering Heights, expresses many themes and morals in her book. The one most important in the Wuthering Heights is the theme of love and cruelty. The main characters, Catherine and Heathcliff, show these actions time and time again. They occur because of the other, much like the yin and the yang. Love leads to cruelty and cruelty leads to love. In Wuthering Heights, there are two different types of love shown: platonic and passionate. Both of these types of love lead to cruelty to other characters. As Heathcliff states boldly within the first few chapters of the novel, love’s cruelty survives even beyond death. “Cathy, do come. Oh do – once more! Oh! My heart’s darling; hear me this time, Catherine, at last!”

            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.