Character Analysis Of Nehcliff

Hunting can be a very dangerous game. “The Most Dangerous Game” written by Richard Connell shows you how dangerous hunting can be. Zaroff demonstrates that he is intelligent, rich, and confident.

She is telling him her version of the story, which then filtered through Lockwood’s perspective. Nelly is undependable narrator because she keeps important information about other characters and events. Lockwood is also not a dependable narrator because he does not fully understands the circumstance and might be misinterprets the stories that are told by Nelly.

Nelly knew that Catherine was subject to big emotional fits to get her way she was very used to it. Although Edgar being completely oblivious thought Catherine was just used her mind to trick people into getting her way. Catherine is only viewed as a spoiled little girl who thinks it's her way or the highway to Nelly. On the other hand Edger is blinded by his love for Catherine only thinking that she is using her smarts tricking people to get what she wants. With that in mind Nelly has a negative beliefs towards Cathrine, while Edger having a positive belief towards

Rainsford’s resourceful nature makes him an ideal hunt for Zaroff because his clever trickery makes the hunt both a challenge and an entertainment for someone like Zaroff who enjoys deadly games. During the game, General Zaroff gives Rainsford three days ahead for the game. While General Zaroff was looking for Rainsford to hunt, Rainsford was using his resourcefulness to survive. "’I'll give him a trail to follow’," muttered Rainsford, and he struck off from the rude path he had been following into the trackless wilderness” (11). Rainsford thinks of setting a false trail, because he knows that he needs to rest, and making a fake path would buy him the most time. Rainsford thinks "’I'll give him a trail to follow’"(11) muttered Rainsford, and he struck off from the rude path he had been following into the trackless wilderness” (11). Although “the trackless wilderness” is a dangerous place for the prey, Rainsford uses the jungle and different wildlife to camouflage himself. Zaroff loves intellectual

From this monologue analysis, it has been discovered that Catherine is a very dramatic and somewhat childish character as is shown because on page 91, Nelly says “…our fiery Catherine was no better than a wailing child!”(Bronte 91). Catherine acts very childish to shut herself in her room for several days because of argument with her husband. Also, her dramatic characteristic is shown because her monologue jumps around a lot in topics, from what happened when she entered her room to her anger at Edger to her sadness with grief, to her derangement, to again her anger at Edger. The knowledge of these characteristics can help perform the interpretation like how Catherine would act it out to Nelly, very dramatic and emotional. It can also be concluded

As an illustration, we see that Cathy is the first to seek Heathcliff, but he sees how Catherine has greatly changed. Catherine flies "to embrace him" and she "bestowed seven or eight kisses on his cheek..." In spite of this, he does not respond positively. Rather, he does not appreciate how Cathy has changed. It is like he lost a part of himself and we see that events are not going to be the same. The use of Heathcliff's diction is very negative. He refuses to shake hands and be laughed at. Additionally, he states he is happy being dirty and will not change. It can be argued that this change will cause Heathcliff to fight stronger for his companion. Catherine now seems to care about other preoccupations like worrying if her dress "had gained no embellishment from its contact with his." With this in mind, we can see that she cares about superfluous

Even in his darkest moments he is so passionate that Nelly does not consider him fully human because he reacts so violently that it’s not possible to consider him a human being. Heathcliff’s masculinity is not traditional for the period he lived in; men were supposed to resist and restrain their passions. But Heathcliff is like an animal and the opposite of what was expected in the Victorian

Nelly and Edgar both acknowledge some of the same qualities of Catherine, but at the same time they view her in completely different ways. Nelly feels as though Catherine is simply behaving as a child to get her way because it is all that she knows how to do. Edgar feels as though Catherine is smarter than she lets on, and simply knows how to manipulate people well. Through this, both of them acknowledge that Catherine is an expert at manipulating people into doing her bidding.

Heathcliff resents her scorn. He desires to regain her approval. He attempts to be “decent” and “good” for her sake (Brontë 40). However, his attempt to be decent fails miserably. He resents the attentions that Catherine gives to Edgar. Catherine would rather wear a “silly frock” and have dinner with “silly friends” than ramble about the moors with him (Brontë 50). Heathcliff keeps track of the evenings Catherine spends with Edgar and those that she spends with him. He desperately wants to be with Catherine. When Catherine announces to Nelly her engagement to Edgar, Heathcliff eavesdrops, but leaves the room when he “heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him” (Brontë 59). Catherine has spurned his love, choosing Edgar over him. Heathcliff cannot bear this rejection. The love he possesses for her transcends romantic and filial love (Mitchell 124). He feels that he is one with her (Mitchell 123).

With such an infamous knack for the art of the scorn and slander, it’s not much of a surprise that Catherine enjoys her gossip. While telling Nelly about Edgar’s Marriage proposal, with Heathcliff eavesdropping close by, Nelly asks Cathy why she would not marry heathcliff instead. Her response, “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now” (Bronte 81), shows that she not only cares more about her social status and appearance, but that she disregards Heathcliff’s feelings almost entirely as she has, as if she were shopping, gone with the better deal. Once Heathcliff hears Cathy’s words, he becomes a changed man, and by no means for the

Because of her background, she is prone to embellishment and filling in the gaps where possible. Because of her large sense of self, she does more embellishing to increase her moral and social standing. Because of the embellishment, the true story gets lost amidst her interpretation, like a deck of cards getting reshuffled; people can make different hands with the same cards. As the novel wears on, the readers stop caring so much about Nelly, as “her so consistently emphasized good qualities turn out to be of so little use,” her technique effectively backfiring (Mathison 22). A story is truly at the mercy of its narrator, whether it be a housekeeper or an item description in a notoriously difficult video game. Dark Souls, Wuthering Heights, and many more all feature unreliable narrators, and because of that, a new level of meaning gets added to what was already there; a meaning of what really was. The truth remains open to complete interpretation, a blank slate for the reader to project whatever they feel appropriate. There is an infinity of possible meanings to the story, so ultimately it falls to the reader to decide which is the right meaning, and which is the

In the first part of Nelly’s narration, she begins by telling how Heathcliff comes about the house. ‘We crowed round, and, over Miss Cathy’s head, I had a peep at a dirty, ragged, black-haired child.’ Such language explores that he is no ordinary child. The other children - Hindley and Cathy, couldn’t believe what their father had bought home. ‘Mrs Earnshaw was ready to chuck it out of the doors…asking how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house.’ Such a phrase would imply that if they were seen with the ‘gipsy’ they would be looked down on. They don’t understand Mr Earnshaw’s reason to bring him home. Cathy and Hindley rejected Heathcliff ‘they entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in their room..I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it might be gone on the morrow’ Nobody wanted it to be part of the household. This first introduction to Heathcliff already explores the view he is socially beneath the other inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. He is typically described as outside of the family structure. This would make him self conscious about himself and could be a reason for his actions later on in his life.

Heathcliff is introduced in Nelly's narration as a seven-year-old Liverpool foundling (probably an Irish famine immigrant) brought back to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. His presence in Wuthering Heights overthrows the prevailing habits of the Earnshaw family, members of the family soon become involved in turmoil and fighting and family relationships become spiteful and hateful. Even on his first night, he is the reason Mr. Earnshaw breaks the toys he had bought for his children. "From the very beginning he bred bad feelings in the house". Heathcliff usurps the affections of Mr. Earnshaw to the exclusion of young Hindley-: "The young master had learnt to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a

Overall, Heathcliff is an unfortunate character that we can sympathize with although he is a ruthless person. The fact that we have a first hand account of his troubled past and childhood influences the audience’s emotions. However, the narration of Nelly and more importantly of Heathcliff is perhaps the strongest factor that makes us feel sorry for

Nelly's language, on the other hand, can be vividly descriptive, as when she describes Cathy on the moors musing over "a bit of moss, or a tuft of branched grass, or a fungus spreading its bright orange among the heaps of brown foliage." Sometimes her language is not unlike Lockwood's, as she claims Heathcliff's "naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness." However, once again the narrator's character interferes