Wuthering Heights

English Homework: Wuthering Heights Catherine: I was overjoyed at Heathcliffs return. He surprised everyone and just 'turned up' one night while we were eating. I wanted Edgar and Heathcliff to get along now that they were older and (I hoped) maturer so I made every effort to get them talking, unfortunately neither had much to say to each other. One of the things that most surprised me about Heathcliff was that his appearance had changed; he was well built, and stockier than when he had left. I was so very pleased to see Heathcliff that I couldn't sleep as I was so excited that one of my closest friends had returned. Edgar became very annoyed and I realised I had always had an affinity for Heathcliff that could not be compared in strength to anything. As I would not let Heathcliff go, Edgar and I grew further apart, and our arguments more frequent until one day I decided that I would feign illness to see if he still loved me. But instead of coming to sit by my side, he immersed himself in his books, as if trying to forget that I existed. It hurt me in a way that I cannot describe. I felt as if the world had no meaning anymore - my husband did not love me, and I was at a place where I needed love and support most. It was only the intervention of Nelly that stopped me losing myself in a fit of passion for the moors. I decided to show them that by ignoring my feelings, I

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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights In the novel Wuthering Heights, a story about love turned obsession, Emily Bronte manipulates the desolate setting and dynamic characters to examine the self-destructive pain of compulsion. Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is a novel about lives that cross paths and are intertwined with one another. Healthcliff, a orphan, is taken in by Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights. Mr. Earnshaw has two children named Catherine and Hindley. Jealousy between Hindley and Healthcliff was always a problem. Catherine loves Healthcliff, but Hindley hates the stranger for stealing his fathers affection away. Catherine meets Edgar Linton, a young gentleman who lives at Thrushcross Grange. Despite being in love with Healthcliff she marries Edgar elevating her social standing. The characters in this novel are commingled in their relationships with Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. The series of events in Emily Bronte's early life psychologically set the tone for her fictional novel Wuthering Heights. Early in her life while living in Haworth, near the moors, her mother died. At the time she was only three. At the age of nineteen, Emily moved to Halifax to attend Law Hill School. There is confusion as of how long she stayed here, suggestions ranging from a minimum of three months to a maximum of eighteen months. However long, it

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Describe how Emily Bronte presents the character of Heathcliff in "Wuthering heights". Pay close attention to chapter 9 and chapter 15. In this essay I shall be describing how Emily Bronte presents the character of Heathcliff in the well known novel of 'Wuthering heights'. Wuthering heights is set in the early 1800's in the Yorkshire Moore's. The story follows the life of Heathcliff from his adoption from the streets of Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw. Heathcliff's childhood was not very stable as he is blighted by bullying from Mr Earnshaw's son, Hindley. This may be partly the reason behind his cruel manner. In the period which Wuthering heights was set England was under the reign of Queen Victoria. Wuthering heights is written by a woman called Emily Bronte this novel is very much influenced by Emily Bronte's up-bringing. Emily Bronte grew up in the last days of rural England in the Yorkshire moors this has left its mark on the Bronte children, Emily, Charlotte, Patrick branwell, Maria, Elizabeth and Anne. Another influence on Bronte's writing was Tabitha Ankroyd, a maid in their household who told stories about fairies and ghosts. These folk beliefs and rituals are scattered through Wuthering heights for example after Catherine's death she returns to Wuthering heights as a ghost and Heathcliff is always referring back to haunting's. Because of the climate and poor heating

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Heathcliff, in a strange mood, told Ellen what he had done the night before. He had bribed the sexton who was digging Edgar's grave to uncover his Catherine's coffin, so he could see her face again he said it was hers yet. The sexton told him that the face would change if air blew on it, so he tore himself away from contemplating it, and struck one side of the coffin loose and bribed the sexton to put his body in with Catherine's when he was dead. Ellen was shocked, and scolded him for disturbing the dead, at which he replied that on the contrary she had haunted him night and day for eighteen years, and "yesternight, I was tranquil. I dreamt I was sleeping my last sleep, by that sleeper, with my heart stopped, and my cheek frozen against hers." Then Heathcliff told Ellen what he had done the night after Catherine's burial (the night he beat up Hindley). He had gone to the kirkyard and dug up the coffin "to have her in his arms again," but while he was wrenching at the screws he suddenly felt sure of her living presence. He was consoled, but tortured as well: from that night for 18 years he constantly felt as though he could almost see her, but not quite. He tried sleeping in her room, but constantly opened his eyes to see if she were there, he felt so sure she was. She spent all her time in Linton's room, and when she came out she asked Heathcliff to call a doctor,

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Wuthering Heights

Kush Patel Period 4 November 9, 2003 Wuthering Heights Essay Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a novel about passion and its many consequences. The story takes place at two completely different estates. One Wuthering Heights were the Earnshaws and Heathcliff reside. Wuthering Heights is a place of disorder. The people that live in the house have no limits to their passions and become violent. The other estate, Thrushcross Grange, is inhabited by the Linton family, people have established rules of social law and principles. In the novel, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte, though appearance and people, represents the two houses as complete opposites, Wuthering Heights as turmoil and Thrushcross Grange as peace, to serve the theme of the novel that only together they give the symbol of subsistence. The different appearances and decor of the two houses, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange further the dissimilar aspects of the house as well as the people who reside in each house. "Wuthering Heights," the name of the house immediately suggest that life there in not free from commotion. The word "wuthering" perfectly describes the weather of the immediate area around the house. The climate is "descriptive of the atmospheric tumult" to which it is "exposed in stormy weather." The house is extremely prone to stormy weather for it is situated on top a hill, alone and far away

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS Emily Bronte was the middle woman in the most celebrated nineteenth century literary family. Supplemented by sister Anne and more renowned sibling Charlotte, she had a love for the Yorkshire moors and human passion, which are both reflected in the only novel she compiled in her 29 years - Wuthering Heights. At the time of its release, 1847, this controversial text divided many critics, and still does to this day. Many, me included, do not appreciate its content or intended objectives. Others oppose this viewpoint, stating that it's a masterpiece years, in terms of its originality, beyond the date of its initial publication. One thing does impress me in this carefully woven novel. Just as Francis Ford Coppola did with tremendous success in the Godfather Part II in 1976, Bronte splits the story into two with the future generation mirroring their ancestors, whether it be the characteristics or mistakes they duplicate there is an apparent resemblance between the old and new guard. The conflicting narrators provide both humour and useful insight into the inhabitants of the moors. Lockwood, the voice-over at the beginning, has acquired the tenancy of Thrushcross Grange and decides to introduce himself to his new landlord, Heathcliff. Their meeting takes place at the nearby Wuthering Heights household. Lockwood establishes a long-winded narrative, which

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In chapter nine, Isabella and Heathcliff went back to Wuthering Heights, and Isabella wrote a letter to Nelly describing what she had encountered upon moving into the Heights. Isabella does not react positively to her new home; she is very unhappy and regrets wholeheartedly her marriage to Heathcliff. Although she attempts to stand up the characters of Hareton and Joseph, she eventually cannot cope because of her upbringing; all her life she was waited on. Isabella depends on the strength of men, which is illustrated by the fact that she becomes weak only weak Heathcliff treats her cruelly and she is rejected by Edgar. The way she describes the house seems to reflect the people who inhabit it. Currently living in the house when Isabella arrived were Joseph, Hareton and Hindley. There was no housekeeper or maid to wait on the master. She described the kitchen as a "dingy, untidy hole". This indicates it must have changed since she had last seen it, when Nelly worked there. It suggests that when the women, Nelly and Catherine, moved out, the house lost its beauty. Also the kitchen has connotations of being a very female environment. She describes Hareton as "a ruffianly child" and "dirty in garb". This seems to represent what had happened to the Heights. "Ruffianly" conveys that the child has no discipline, and perhaps suggesting that the house has little order now. Also his

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Wuthering heights

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is a romantic, tragedy novel compact with passionate love between two main, complex characters, Cathy Earnshaw and Heathcliff. Being set against the backdrop of the Yorkshire moors, the environment and location prepares the audience of what the characters may be like, giving a first impression of laid back people living in the countryside. However further events and descriptions take place to advise the actual personality, and life style the characters inhabit upon. Emily Bronte, the contemplative Author of Wuthering Heights, was born on the 30th July 1818, in Bradford of Yorkshire. However shortly at the age of 2 moved to Haworth near Keighley, Yorkshire. Emily began to write the spectacular novel during the years of 1946/47, to be published in December 1847 under the pseudonym of Ellis Bell. Emily Bronte's life came to an abrupt end when she died of tuberculosis, at the age of 30, on the 19th December 1848. Only after her death, did Wuthering Heights give Emily Bronte recognition for the enthralling novel, when Thomas Cautley Newby quite rightly published it under her name. The opening 3 chapters produce a very powerful view on Wuthering Heights, also the main characters, plus brief descriptions of things from Mr Lockwood, him being the narrator, at the beginning of the story. The description of Wuthering Heights given

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