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    The treatment of the poor at the hands was polar. Where some were very harsh to them, some like Mr. Lockwood (the initial master of the Wuthering Heights) was strict but still kinder. The tussle between Mr. Heathcliff (poor)and Mr. Lockwood’s eldest son(rich) serves as a metaphor. It also brings to notice the ever ongoing tussle between the will of heart and the will of the society, specially in the case of women who are forced by the society and by the already laid norms to defy what they actually

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    Through a sinister plotline and a tempestuous poetic style, Emily Bronte’s character of Heathcliff displays a violent and bitter personality against those who have harmed, degraded, and humiliated him in her literary masterpiece “Wuthering Heights”. Creatively, this art piece portrays a great deal of the tale’s theme of revenge. Through the siren like rose, the tortured hand, and the vengeful spirit of a snake, this piece exhibits the nature of Catherine’s love, Heathcliff’s past, and his vengeful

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    under peaceful circumstances. They seem to thrive on drama. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a story of passionate love that encompasses two generations of two families: the Earnshaws and the Lintons. Talk about a dysfunctional family. Does anyone really like each other in this book? Instead of bringing comfort, peace, and tranquility, the two families in

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    Vampyre (1819), to the works of the romantics, Coleridge, Shelly and Keats, who all wrote about characters with vampire-like qualities. (Nelson 94) In 1847, the epic of the vampire was taken down in a new light, by Emily Bronte, in her novel Wuthering Heights. The story follows the vampiric symbiotic relationship between the characters Heathcliff and Catherine, and how each portray different aspects of the legend of the vampire, creating a new take on the century old tale. Through this Bronte makes

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    In Wuthering Height, Emily Bronte described Heathcliff as a “man’s shape animated by demon life - a ghoul”. Bronte is at her best when she is describing him, and his looks garner a lot of attention from her and other characters. In Heathcliff’s life, his youthful love for Catherine Earnshaw is better than his final years of vengeance. Heathcliff who is one of the main character is presented in many forms in the novel. He is portrayed as a man who loves Catherine, homeless, vengeful. He is also described

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    In essence, the narrative structure of Wuthering Heights is a literary technique that allows readers to experience more than they would with any one narrator. The technique enables the reader to gain an inside perspective from Nelly, and an outside perspective form Lockwood. Both characters offer different

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    Wuthering Heights is a novel wrote by Emily Bronte about tragic and gothic romance. One of the most famous character in the book was Heathcliff, a tortured anti-hero. This essay will talk about one type of archetype in the story “tortured anti-hero” - Heathcliff and how his personalities affected the story. Heathcliff is an orphan brought to live at Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw, Heathcliff falls into an intense, unbreakable love with Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter Catherine. After Mr. Earnshaw dies

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    The role of women in the world of literature has typically taken a back seat to that of men. However, the women in the stories of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and Medea by Euripides don’t easily compromise to the bidding of their male counterparts. In both stories, before any female took the initiative to go against a male individual, women were oppressed, influenced, and culturally subjected by the actions of the male populace. There is a clear and distinct mistreatment of women in the two

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    Throughout the compelling conspiracy of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë, creates an inhospitable and ominous estate, known as the Heights, that mirrors the savage inhabitants’ demeanor, such as the characters, Joseph or Hindley, but it is for most part apparent with Mr. Heathcliff. In the exposition, the reader gets a clear idea that the Heights is a dim, depressing, miserable residence when Mr. Lockwood first arrives there, and he begins to describes the Heights by observing the terrain; and he thinks

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    Lifelong Immaturity Wuthering Heights’s Catherine Earnshaw is infamous for her complex character, some arguing that she is egocentric and manipulative, others sympathizing with the difficult choices she is faced with. However, there is no doubt that she is innately childish. As Catherine grows older, her character is not changed; she remains juvenile and selfish, making everything a game that revolves around her and not empathizing with other characters and their needs - subconsciously or

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