Theme of outsiders in both "The Color Purple" and "Wuthering Heights"

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Probably the first indication of the theme of outsiders is the arrival of heathcliff to Wuthering heights as a child. Old Mr. Earnshaw returns to his family from a trip to Liverpool with the child as a "gift from god" but the more liked observation is the children's remark of him as a "gipsy brat" and a "dirty ragged black-haired child". Catherine and Hindley immediately dislike the outsider mainly because the presents which their father had promised had been either crushed or lost on the way home .Mrs. earshaw too is appalled at the idea of having to feed him and clothe him as well. He is considered an outsider more than any other character in the novel because, well because he is! , metaphorically and literally.

He is then reduced to the status of a servant or in other words he has been turned into a pariah-an outcast, when Earnshaw died and passed Wuthering heights to Hindley. He "drove him from their company to the servants, depriving him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labour out of doors instead".

When heathcliff and Cathy were caught at Thrushcross Grange