Eight Study Guides, Literature Essays

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  • Gothic Features in Wuthering Heights

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  • Nature Versus Culture in Wuthering Heights

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    What is the difference between nature and culture Does Confucius theory that When nature exceeds culture we have the rustic When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant really exist In Emily Brontes novel Wuthering Heights we see that the universe is made up of two opposite forces Nature and culture Bronte was concerned with the meaning of life She focused on her characters roles in the universe in which everythingalive or not intellectual or physicalwas animated by one of two spiritual princ

  • Characterisation of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

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    One critic stated that Wuthering Heights is truly a novel without a hero or heroine What do you think of this statement Is Heathcliff a hero or villain Emily Brontes Heathcliff is epitomised throughout Wuthering Heights as a vengeful character who becomes corrupted through his overwhelming jealousy and his rejection from Catherine Rather than a protagonist of an admirable disposition Heathcliff rebels against social niceties and plots against other characters to create the central conflict Howe

  • An Unreliable Narrator in Wuthering Heights

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    Nelly Dean the principal narrator of Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights relates the tale of two houses Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange She tells the story as a first hand witness of the events but to what extent can the reader trust her narration Being the servant at Wuthering Heights and later on at Thrushcross Grange Nelly becomes very involved and interferes with many of the characters She also acts as a mother figure to many of the younger characters which leads to bias Nellys depicti

  • Characterisation of Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

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    Every novel needs an overly eccentric character to add a splash of color and spontaneity to the plot In the case of Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is that character But instead of a splash of color Heathcliff adds a shroud of darkness He may be spontaneous and eccentric but unlike the common person his mind is twisted and his actions are evil Throughout the novel he is portrayed as a madman Brought up as an adopted child from the streets Heathcliff always had a strange and unnatural disposition A

  • Pairs in Wuthering Heights

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    By reading the novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte I can see that Bronte organizes her novel by putting its element like characters and places into pairs Catherine and Heathcliff are closely matched in any ways and see themselves as identical Catherines character is divided into warring sides For instance the side that wants Edgar and the sides that wants Heathcliff Catherine and young Catherine are both similar and different The two houses Wuthering Heigths and Trushcross Grange represent

  • Books, Reading, and Learning in Wuthering Heights

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    Books Reading and Learning in Wuthering Heights In Emily Brontes book Wuthering Heights books reading and learning seem to play a pivotal role in each characters persona Heathcliff and the elder Catherine seem to despise reading Catherine does say after all that she took her dingy volume by the scoop and hurled it into the dog kennel vowing I hated a good book Chapter III page 26 The real objects of their resentment however are the moral and religious lessons that are forced upon them via books

  • Love in Wuthering Heights

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    Audience the readers of Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights Purpose To show the difference between Catherines love for Edgar and her love for Heathcliff Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights is considered to be one of the most controversial novels of the 19th century Catherine is at an impasse where she torn between Edgar and a good social standing and Heathcliff her true love Not wanting to soil her reputation Catherine chooses Edgar over Heathcliff bringing up the idea of superficial lover versus true

  • Weight and Masculinity in The Things They Carried

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  • Analysis of Chapter Eight in Great Expectations

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    Mr Pumblechuck and his sister have sent Pip to Satis house were he meets a rich old lady called Miss Havisham and a young girl named Estella who both treat Pip with great unkindness throughout chapter 8 In this essay I will give examples and evidence of the way they treat Pip from the text to support my view Miss Havisham treats Pip very unfairly and is very manipulative towards him Particularly when she says I have done with men and women play Miss Havisham knows the word play will be a very d

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