Isabella Rossellini

Soham Warik Summer Reading Wuthering Heights 1). I felt interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself...He is a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman, that is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure—and rather morose... I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling—to manifestations of

Heathcliff’s character development, as if he has integrated into a part of his natural environment. Thrushcross Grange is depicted as a symbol for civilization. Catherine ends up marrying Edgar Linton, who inhabits the household with his sister Isabella Linton, who ends up wedding Heathcliff. Thrushcross Grange itself is across the moors from Wuthering Heights, rendering it closer to the rest of the town. Long before Catherine’s marriage to Edgar, when she is younger, she ends up abiding in Thrushcross

Geographical Surroundings Shape Traits Throughout the novel, issues of setting and social status can reflect onto the characters, therefore shaping their traits. Each character is connected to their differing settings, which in return creates the character’s differing attitudes and psychological or moral traits. Heathcliff, Edgar Linton, and Catherine Earnshaw are the three characters in which their settings reflect their personalities, and therefore create their physical and moral traits. Heathcliff

Nelly is a major character in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights as she acts as narrator and interacts with every character within the novel. Nelly displays her devotion to those she works for by acting as a confidante for both Catherine and Cathy throughout their lives, as well as developing the story through her actions. To start the novel, Nelly acts as a caretaker for Catherine and becomes her friend, even though she ultimately dislikes Catherine. Nelly raises Catherine and her sibling, Hindley

audience in a romantic hero kind of perspective ("Wuthering Heights"). In the novel Heathcliff abuses a young woman named Isabella Linton, the selfish snotty sister of Edgar, and she continuously goes back to Heathcliff. To the audience Heathcliff is the young man who everyone wants to see as the romantic hero, allowing them to foresee the pain and violence he causes to Isabella. Only with the deception of Heathcliff Wuthering Heights has a hero, there are no other ways to try and make a hero. Even

Assessment 1: Critical Commentary Freud’s The Uncanny and Emily Bronté’s Wuthering Heights The principal idea in Sigmund Freud’s interpretation of The Uncanny theory centres around the Heimlich, translating to ‘homely’ and thus, what is familiar, and the Unheimlich, which is often translated to what is ‘Uncanny’ defined as ‘what is […] frightening precisely because it is not known and familiar’ (Freud, 1919) or later described as something that is ‘secretly familiar which has undergone repression’

“Is Wuthering Heights as nice a place as Thrushcross Grange?” (Brontë 329). That seems to be the question quickly answered in the start of the novel, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë, and the answer is very clearly: No. In Wuthering Heights, contrast between the two main and unique places, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, helps to define and separate the lifestyles of the main characters. Wuthering Heights is distinctively more dark and chaotic and is full of troubles that make it seem

In the novel ‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Bronte, Heathcliff is presented with qualities of a villain. He is cruel, brutal and vindictive, however is sympathized with from the reader with the understanding of his actions due to the abusive events that he experiences in his life. Heathcliff is treated brutally and therefore becomes the product of that abuse. Heathcliff enters the Earnshaw home as a poor orphan who is immediately stigmatized. He is characterized as devilish and is cruelly referred

The Dualism of Catherine Earnshaw’s Character in Wuthering Heights Wuthering Heights is a work marked by bewildering characterization. Perhaps most complex of all is Emily’s portrayal of Catherine Earnshaw as a pitiful victim and an abusive victimizer. With such qualities, Catherine’s character was violently at odds with ideals of the Victorian womanhood. Namely, that a woman should be passive, obedient, and an angel in the house. (Towheed, 2012). Indeed, not major characteristics of Bronte’s female

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