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    one novel, Wuthering Heights; but the one novel that she wrote has been recognized as a classic of English literature and had gained her fame worldwide. Wuthering Heights was published in the year 1847 under the pen name Ellis Bell. The early analysis of this novel was a mixture of approbation and disapprobation. Wuthering Heights is the story of two families and a visitor or a stranger. The two families are the Earnshaw family and the Linton family living at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange

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    characters in Wuthering Heights are guilty of this. Their circumstances drive them to do unthinkable things which unfortunately have drastic outcomes. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights is a beautifully written novel that shows the ugliness of human nature as seen through the depiction of toxic relationships, displaying revenge and vengeance in the differentiation of social class. The ugliness of human nature is undoubtedly shown through toxic relationships in Wuthering Heights. They toxicity can be

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    Section I: Significance of Title The title of the book is named after the house where most of the action takes place. In the beginning, Lockwood describes Wuthering Heights. “Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling. ‘Wuthering’ being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing

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    Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë

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    devilish, preternatural passion that tamer beings can scarcely recognize as love.” (Duclaux) Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is considered a masterpiece today, however when it was first published, it received negative criticism for its passionate nature. Critics have studied the novel from every analytical angle, yet it remains one of the most haunting love stories of all time. “Wuthering Heights is not a comfortable book; it invites admiration rather than love,” (Stoneman 1). The novel contains

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    Wuthering heights Wuthering heights novel by Emily Bronte, published in 1847, it revolves around the passionate and destructive love between its two central characters, the headstrong and beautiful Catherine Earnshaw and her handsome, and brooding hero/devil Heathcliff (Shmoop editorial team, 2008). Wuthering heights as a gothic novel Wuthering heights has just about all the elements of a gothic novel, the characters are more complex than your average gothic protagonists/antagonists (Shmoop Editorial

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    The Jealous Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights     Throughout Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff's personality could be defined as dark, menacing, and brooding. He is a dangerous character, with rapidly changing moods, capable of deep-seeded hatred, and incapable, it seems, of any kind of forgiveness or compromise. In the first 33 chapters, the text clearly establishes Heathcliff as an untamed, volatile, wild man and establishes his great love of Catherine and her usage of him as the source of

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    and above all, hopeless. This essential element of gothic, with the inclusion of the supernatural, takes the main stage in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights. This story of romance, mystery, and violence is not only the epitome of the gothic novel, but also a social commentary that rings true for the human race in its entirety. In a sense, Wuthering Heights is a true story, not because the characters and events are factual, but because Brontë writes the story in a way that the truth is left up to the

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    Wuthering Heights, a novel by Emily Bronte is one of the most admired and favorable written works in English literature. When the novel was published in the year 1847, it sold very poorly and only received a minimum amount of reviews. Although the novel does not contain any sexual relations or bloodshed, it is considered to be inappropriate due to its portrayal of an unconstrained love and cruelty. Wuthering Heights is formed on the Gothic tradition in the late 18th century, which consists of supernatural

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    “The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish,” said Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island. Any person can write a book, but to be able to write what you mean and affect your readers is very difficult. A writer simply can’t just drop dialogue into a character’s mouth without having any context of the dialogue. If an author has his or her character saying “I’m broke,” what does this really

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    Macbeth Wuthering Heights

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    During today's time there is destructive love caused by different thing. Upon reading the literatures Macbeth and Wuthering heights you can see that they share a common theme with present day relationships. The theme of destructive love within relationships in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. These traits are shown by the characters are shown by the characters and represented by today’s society. In the literatures, bot relationships

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