Not only is Wuthering Heights a powerful love story and a compelling tale of the supernatural, it also offers readers insightful commentary on issues relating to class and morality. Emily Brontë’s novel is a complicated exploration of what happens when the established order of a community is thrown off balance. In the case of the Linton and the Earnshaw families, it is the appearance of Heathcliff, the dark, mysterious orphan, that sets a chain of events in motion that destroys or threatens to destroy
William Shakespeare once wrote “these violent delights have violent ends/and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, / which, as they kiss, consume.” Such is the case of Heathcliff and Catherine in Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff and Catherine, as they grow up, fall for one another, but they encounter many obstacles along the way. Enormous cruelty, violent jealousy, and ultimately bloodthirsty vengeance prevent the two lovers from being together until death reunites them. Despite
rather the grey area in between. In literature, the dichotomy of good and evil is commonly used to accentuate the concept of perspective. Throughout Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is commonly displayed as a cruel, malicious, and detestable character, yet, the reader often finds him or herself feeling sorry for Heathcliff despite his malevolent nature. Emily Brontë inconsistently describes Heathcliff, causing the reader to have various
Isabella makes, " Shamefulness and violence are cut pointed at both terminations; they wound the people who remedy to them more terrible than their opponent" (P. 177). The fact that Hindley is mistreated as a child reflects the built up anger and resentment inside him and towards others. The hurt that Hindley feels is clearly understood, but sympathy for Hindley is only temporary because it is still his own fault for his predicaments. Hindley’s loss of Wuthering Heights to Heathcliff and his mysterious
Isabella makes, " Shamefulness and violence are cut pointed at both terminations; they wound the people who remedy to them more terrible than their opponent" (P. 177). The fact that Hindley is mistreated as a child reflects the built up anger and resentment inside him and towards others. The hurt that Hindley feels is clearly understood, but sympathy for Hindley is only temporary because it is still his own fault for his predicaments. Hindley’s loss of Wuthering Heights to Heathcliff and his mysterious