Characters of Catherine and Heathcliff in Emily Brontes Wuthering Hei

The Characters of Catherine and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights can be considered a Gothic romance or an essay on the kind-hearted relationship. The reader may regard the novel as a unplayful study of human problems such as love and hate, or retaliate and jealousy. One may even consider the novel Brontes personal variation of the universe. However, when exclusively is said and done, Heathcliff and Catherine are the story. Their powerful presence permeates byout the novel, as well as their complex personalities. Their climatic feelings towards each other and ofttimes selfish behavior often exaggerates or possibly encapsulates certain oecumenical psychological truths humans are too afraid to express. Heathcliff and Catherines stark backgrounds break respectively into sin personalities and mistaken life paths, but in the destination their actions determine the course of their own relationships and lives. Their misfortunes, recklessness, willpow er, and destructive passion are uneffective to penetrate the eternal love they share. Heathcliffs many-faceted existence is marked by wickedness, love, and military strength. His dark actions are produced by the distortion of his natural personality. Although Heathcliff was once subjected to vicious racial discrimination due to his dark skin color and experienced wearisome orphan years in Liverpool, this distortion had already begun when Mr. Earnshaw brought him into Wuthering Heights, a dirty, ragged, black-haired child(45 ch.7). Already he was inured to hardship and uncomplainingly accepted suffering. Heathcliff displays his strength and steadfastness when he had the measles, and when Hindley treated him cruelly if he got what he wanted. From the in truth beginning he showed great co... ...of the novel? Or is revenge the important and recurring idea? Is Bronte proposing that as humans we have the right to interpose with the cosmic, dark and questioning universe just as Ca therine and Heathcliff manipulated with their own lovers and family? maybe it is simply a book about characters, each to his own, meandering through puddles, with cloudy morals and mistaken ideals. With a darkness within and bang without, stumbling back and forth a two-mile stretch of land searching for something theyve had all along. Maybe its a book about reality. Works Cited Damrosch, David, et al., ed. The Longman Anthology of British writings Vol. B. Compact ed. New York Longman - Addison Wesley Longman, 2000. Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. Norton Critical ed. 3rd ed. Ed. William M. Sale, Jr., and Richard J. Dunn. New York W. W. Norton, 1990.