Jealousy In Wuthering Heights, By Emily Bronte

As a consequence of Heathcliff's visit to the Grange, Edgar's sister Isabella falls in love with him, and her feelings seem to be sincere. In this one-sided love affair Heathcliff takes advantage of the innocent girl's infatuation to foster his obsession for revenge. (Isabella is her brother's heir). Catherine's reaction is very hard to interpret. It is natural that she is jealous, if she still feels the same for him as before, and that may be the reason why she dissuades Isabella from marrying Heathcliff. But the words she uses, telling her what an abominable creature Heathcliff is, are not the sort you expect to hear from someone talking of a sweetheart. Later on when her husband and Heathcliff are having a quarrel, she stops Edgar from hurting her friend . There is an excess of emotion, and her explanation to this behaviour is that she wants them both, Edgar and Heathcliff: "Well, if I cannot keep Heathcliff for my friend - if Edgar will be mean and jealous, I'll try to break their hearts by breaking my own" (109).Her love for Heathcliff has not cooled down, instead it seems to be a stronger obsession than ever considering the torments she goes through, when she becomes seriously ill.The last time Catherine and Heathcliff see each other is a very heart-rending meeting. Their love for each other is as strong as ever, and Heathcliff

One of the most dramatic scenes in the book is the death of Catherine. The first signs of her failing health physically and mentally come when she locks herself up in her room after Heathcliff and Edgar's fight. She fasts herself into a delirium, pulling out pillow stuffing and seeing faces in the mirror. Unlike ordinary death, which comes quick and painlessly, Catherine's slowly wastes her away into a ghost. About seven months later, she dies at childbirth, but returning to haunt Heathcliff. The main cause for Catherine's death is not childbirth, although it may have been the final contributor. Ironically, because of the spiritual link between Heathcliff and her, it is their separation that killed her. Brontë punishes the sinned by slow death, having the guilty put the wrath upon themselves. She also brings in the supernatural to prove that even at death, there is no peace. The precise description of the moments before Catherine's death emotionally charges and further involves the reader. Like Catherine, Heathcliff dies in a similar fashion, except his sufferings prior to death lasted eighteen years. He explains to Nelly, "What does not recall her [Catherine]? Those two [Catherine Linton and Linton Heathcliff] are the only objects which retain a distinct material appearance to me; and, that appearance causes me pain, amounting to agony." This is consistent because he has sinned the most of all

Her every need is taken care of. Later, when she is confronted by Heathcliff, she is reminded of Wuthering Heights and begins to miss the place she once was so eager to leave. Catherine begins to see the Grange as superficial and confining, and at first she is only annoyed by this, but eventually the suffocating enclosure causes Catherine to lash out at her husband and all the Grange represents. Catherine, aware of her incestuous attraction to Heathcliff, believes the Grange is destroying her, and because of her disgust of the Grange and her sense of guilt, it does. In the process, Edgar too must suffer Catherine's pain because of his love for her.

Harsh, wild and unforgiving; the Yorkshire moors on which Emily Brontë played, provided the backdrop and catalyst of turmoil in her most tragic book Wuthering Heights. Born in 1818 in rural England, Haworth she lived in the heart of these wild, desolate expanses which provided her an escape where she truly felt at home and where her imagination flourished. Along with her sisters and brother, the Brontë children in their pastimes would often create stories and poems largely based on their playful ramblings in this environment.

In the novel “Wuthering Heights”, Emily Bronte portrays the character of Catherine in many ways. Bronte displays Catherine to the audience as a paradoxical character as she has both good and bad characteristics. Catherine’s actions raise the question where she deserves to be pitied rather than condemned. I firmly believe that Catherine deserves to be condemned and not pitied.

“We love with a love that was more than love” stated by a famous poet by the name of Edgar Allen Poe. True love can appear deeper than the surface. Repeatedly humans confide in their brain on who they are “infatuated” and make decisions based upon that. Emily Bronte depicts this well in her outstanding novel “Wuthering Heights.” In the story, two characters by the name of Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw are constantly yearning for each throughout the novel but under certain circumstances can be wed together. As an adopted child, Heathcliff comes into the family and attaches himself to Catherine. However, another character by the name of Edgar Linton, similarly loves Catherine but is the complete contrast of Heathcliff. Coming from a well-off family, Linton is almost a picture perfect of what society wants in a male being wealthy, respectful, and highly intelligent. On the other hand, Heathcliff is a poor, uncivilized, and simple-minded child. Bronte indicates in her narrative in a “what-if” situation based on the love between them both. Creating scenario, she creates a blurry line in between wrong and right choice for love. Nonetheless, “logical choice” is not always the correct choice nor is it a clear-cut choice. The author asks a question of “If it is a choice between the rational and true love, which do you chose?” Because of this, Bronte makes readers

Catherine marries Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff, because of her desire for social prominence. Heathcliff’s humiliation and misery prompt him to spend most of the rest

While Catherine is pregnant, Edgar and Heathcliff have a fight, causing Catherine to lock herself in her room where she leaves her window open, to have a view of the moors and Wuthering Heights that remind her of her childhood and Heathcliff, and starves herself. Finally someone gets inside her room and realizes she has become very ill. Since Catherine is so ill, her recovery isn’t expected to go smoothly. Heathcliff visits Catherine and they profess their love for each other once

Heathcliff states how “two words would comprehend [his] future – death and hell: existence, after losing her, would be hell” (148). This quote shows how Heathcliff still treasures the relationship he has with Catherine, despite her marriage to Edgar. Despite the horrible treatment he has been giving Catherine, Heathcliff knows how precious Catherine is and how his life has no meaning without her in his life. He now understands how “[he] was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than [his own]” (148). Edgar could never love Catherine as much in eighty years as Heathcliff could in a single day.

This social constraint explains why Catherine “betrayed her own heart.” (Bronte, 37) As a result of this betrayal, a heartbroken Heathcliff begins to formulate a plot for revenge. “For seventeen years Heathcliff wreaks his vengeance on Hindley, Edgar, and Isabella and on their children Hareton, young Cathy, and Linton. The account of the trip is not pretty. Even in the love scenes before the elder Cathy’s death there is a savage passion which strikes terror to the heart of the beholder, unlike any other scenes in the course of English fiction.”

Happiness is a very elusive and subjective thing. In general, the intentions behind our actions can lead to happiness, or they may not. Authors usually write about the intentions of character’s actions, so then the effect that the actions have on their happiness can easily be linked to their intentions. Many books over many genres have been written about one of the primary questions of happiness: do good intentions lead to happiness? In some novels, purely good intentions and bad intentions can lead to distress and unhappiness. In others, happiness is brought upon by good intent. In the novels The Awakening by Kate Chopin, 1984 by George Orwell, Atonement by Ian McEwan, and Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë, the intent of the main character’s

After Catherine's death you see a new and worst Heathcliff, he get’s more violent. Heathcliff gets so crazy to the point he wants Catherine to haunt him. He wishes he would've killed her himself. Catherine is dying hurt Heathcliff more than it did Edgar and her and Edgar were married . Heathcliff sacrifices his sanity. But even though he does that he stay has a very

This leads to him running away from the heights entirely, leaving Catherine to marry Edgar. “He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him.” (81). Upon his return (two years later), Heathcliff marries Isabella to get back at Catherine, and her speech about how marrying him would degrade her. Isabella is also taken against her and her family’s will. Heathcliff kidnaps her and locks her away at the heights. In a letter written to Nelly, Isabella confirms that it was truly against her will for her leaving, and that she cannot return in the time of crisis in her brother’s life. “… an entreaty for kind remembrance and reconciliation, if her proceeding offended him: asserting that she could not help it then, and being done, no power to repeal it.” (140). In the act of kidnapping Isabella, Heathcliff’s intent is to hurt Catherine. Catherine would develop almost a jealous-like temper towards the whole situation, as Heathcliff knew it would. Even on Catherine’s deathbed, there is a constant push and pull (in almost a literal sense) of the cruelty that goes on between the two of them. Between the crying, the vexing, and the constant apologies, comes the brutal cruelty of the words Catherine speaks to Heathcliff. “I shall not pity you, not I. You have killed me – and thriven on it, I think.” (164)

“The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish,” said Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island. Any person can write a book, but to be able to write what you mean and affect your readers is very difficult. A writer simply can’t just drop dialogue into a character’s mouth without having any context of the dialogue. If an author has his or her character saying “I’m broke,” what does this really mean without any context? To Oprah Winfrey, being broke may mean she can’t buy a Silk Jet, a winery, or a country. To a middle- class American, being broke may mean they can’t buy a new pair of shoes that week, buy a new car, or get their hair

Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous novels of the Victorian time period. Emily Brontë coins the intricacy of her creations in a multitude of admirable literary ways. In this tragic and twisted love story, Brontë presents her characters in pairs, conveys a unique story-telling method, and utilizes internal character turmoil in order to build the distinct characterization of many characters. The complexity of the characters’ beings leads way to a compelling love story that also serves as a great mystery.