Eight Study Guides, Literature Essays

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  • Alienation In Wuthering Heights

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    Alienation causes the characters in Wuthering Heights to make choices that are not always in their best interest Examples of this behaviour are made by Hindley and Isabella Hareton Linton and Cathy and Heathcliff Edgar and Catherine Loneliness and alienation make Isabella and Hindley desperate people and perhaps their alienation could have been avoided Cathy Linton and Hareton all experience alienation from each other but the most alienation is caused by Heathcliff Lastly Catherine Heathcliff a

  • Commentary on Wuthering Heights

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    Catherine and Heathcliff didnt have any support with their love because all Heathcliff was seen as is lower class and a servant nothing that any girl should marry Like she said it would degrade her in society Heathcliff is a dynamic character Even though his love doesnt change he does He changes because his love for Catherine never goes away The change Heathcliff makes is destructive At the beginning of the story when Catherine and Heathcliff fall in love Heathcliff seems to be this loving gent

  • Jealousy in Othello, Wuthering Heights, and A View From the Bridge

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    Compare and contrast the different ways in which the writers present the destructive nature of jealousy in Othello Wuthering Heights and A View from the Bridge The dark side of love is presented in the three texts as the way that love can turn from appearing happy to destructive Pride jealousy and obsession are presented as components of flawed love and the inevitable consequences in such relationships after the intervention of a catalyst These components combined with the flawed personalities

  • Comparison of Heroines in Wuthering Heights and The Great Gatsby

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    Comparison of Heroines in Wuthering Hieghts and the Great Gatsby Summary comparison of heroines in wuthering hieghts and the great gatsby Comparison of the presentation of the heroines in F Scott Fitzgeralds TheGreat Gatsby and Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights Introduction to The Great Gatsby F Scott Fitzgerald wrote The Great Gatsby He presents us with many characters one of which is quite complex Daisy Buchanan She is stuck in a love triangle with the affairs brings tension and envy to an unex

  • Discuss the Nature of Love between Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights

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    Wuthering heights has been called the greatest of love stories The central characters which are Heathcliff and Catherine have a relationship of idealised romance and fused with gothic fantasy and horror The two characters are allied so closely as to appear virtually complementary halves of the same character There is an extreme closeness that exists between Catherine and Heathcliff They prove incapable of living without one another but also peculiarly unable to coexist happily They are in many

  • Childhood in Wuthering Heights

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    Discuss the ways in which Bronte portrays childhood in the opening of Wuthering Heights Where most of the other literature of the era shows childhood as a time of innocence and enjoyment Bronte portrays childhood as a time of difficult uncontrollable passion and confusion to be overcome by growing into adulthood Heathcliff has an especially difficult childhood as he enters the Earnshaw family as an orphan from a much lower class meaning he has a lot to adjust to Bronte doesnt reveal where Heath

  • Emily Bront And Wuthering Heights

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    Emily Bront and Wuthering Heights Art is part of its creator and authors poets singers and artists are part of the work they create Every idea has to come from somewhere and work is usually inspired by something in the creators life You can see an author in her characters her plot her setting and strewn throughout the rest of the novel Emily Bront was no different her writing reflected her as a person Many aspects of Bronts novel Wuthering Heights are based on the authors own life whether these

  • Enigmas; Or, Power And Corruption In Wuthering Heights and Heart of Darkness

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    In a typical novel the desire for power often drives the storys antagonist This obsession gives the story its focus as well as its obstacles But in putting the obsession in the hands of the central figure in the story the dynamic becomes warped completely Both Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights and Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness present the reader with this dilemma the driving force of both novels takes form in a character whos cravings overpower everything else albeit for graspable reasons Bron

  • Selfishness in Wuthering Heights

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    Isabella Linton derives little sympathy from the reader of Wuthering Heights through her selfish behaviour vain little fool her negativity towards the lead character Catherine If Cathy died I might begin to live and her sheer petulance and disregard for the feelings of her brother She even disgraces the name of Linton I will explore the traits within her personality that create the antipathy from the reader towards Isabella and the events that unfold because of this Isabella Lintons incapabilit

  • Heathcliff's Character in Wuthering Heights

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    In Wuthering Heights Heathcliff is portrayed in a certain way which changes drastically throughout the novel The way in which others perceive him differs and gradually changes as the novel progresses Heathcliffs character is fairly controversial as it is unknown to the reader how he is feeling and who he really is His personality is not presented in a way that would demonstrate to the reader who he is as many of the comments about Heathcliff are from the other judgemental characters in the nove

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