At first prospective, the two characters from The Sound And The Fury and Wuthering Heights are very comparative and have a deep effect on their individual stories. Jason Compson chooses not to love or to marry to anyone. He earns love from only his mother. Then again, Catherine and Mr. Earnshaw love Heathcliff. More examination will show that Jason and Heathcliff do not have much in common.
Jason's heritage, even from his earliest childhood, is one of mischievousness and extreme dislike. Jason remains isolated from the other children. Like his brothers, Jason is obsessed with Caddy, but his obsession is based on bitterness and a desire to get Caddy into trouble and to blame his faults on her.
I wouldn't lay my hand on her. The bitch that cost me a job, the one chance I ever had to get ahead, that killed my father and is shortening my mother's life everyday and make my name a laughing stock in the town. I wont do anything to her (182).
Herbert Head had offered Jason a job at his bank, but rescinded that offer when he divorced Caddy. This retraction left Jason no choice but to work at the local farm-supply store. Though Mrs. Compson hopes Jason will own the store one day, Jason is bitter about having lost his bank job and being forced to work in the farm-supply store.
Ironically, the loveless Jason is the only one of the Compson children who receives Mrs. Compson's affection. Jason does not have the ability to accept, enjoy, or return this love. Jason rejects not only household love, but romantic love as well. He hates all women passionately, and thus cannot date or marry and have children.
Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say (180).
He is talking to Mrs. Compson, when they are in the kitchen. Both Mrs. Compson and Jason are arguing over what should be done with Miss Quentin and how she should be treated. Jason's only romantic fulfillment as an adult comes from a prostitute in Memphis, Lorraine.
Heathcliff: Villain or Victim? ... Is it Heathcliff that is the oppressor? ... Heathcliff's harsh pounding causes the reader to see Heathcliff as pitiless and animal-like (Holderness 28). ... Nelly, I am Heathcliff! ... Heathcliff is not the villain! ...
Heathcliff's journey of transformation begins as a mangy orphan child. ... Heathcliff is often called "it". ... Heathcliff and Catherine discover themselves as they grow up. ... When Catherine decides to marry Edgar over Heathcliff, Heathcliff overhears Catherine say to Nelly ". . . it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff. . .... However, while Heathcliff transformed physically and mentally, one very important aspect of Heathcliff never changes a slight bit. ...
We could say that there is a general confrontation during the novel between two opposites: Nature vs. Society, Passion vs. Reason, Wuthering Heights vs. Thrushcross Grange, the love for Heathcliff vs. the love for Edgar Linton. ... "Nelly, I am Heathcliff! ...
Heathcliff, the main character, felt this way throughout the novel. ... He felt this way because Heathcliff suddenly became Mr. ... Heathcliff heard Catherine when she told Nelly Dean that if she married Heathcliff they would both be beggars and so it would degrade her to marry him. ... As and adult Heathcliff changed completely. ... Heathcliff gave Hindley a taste of his own medicine. ...
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Our first encounter with Heathcliff is as a mature adult, and related by Lockwood. ... Hindley grew to despise Heathcliff, taunting, and beating him whenever the opportunity arose. ... Bronte has given us yet another positive characteristic of Heathcliff. ... Catherine's love of Heathcliff was subtly passionate, yet in some aspects quite selfish, as she learns to love Edgar Linton also, after her stay at Thrushcross Grange, practically ignoring Heathcliff. ... Bronte repeats this device when Heathcliff all but murders Hindley. ...
Hindley, a few years older than Heathcliff, didn't like Heathcliff, and would beat him, sometimes for no reason. One day Hindley's father bought Hindley and Heathcliff each a colt. Heathcliff chose the more beautiful of the horses, but his soon became ill. ... Since he despises Heathcliff, he makes Heathcliff live as a servant, and separates him from Catherine, sending her to play with the neighbor's children, Edgar and Isabella Linton. ... When Hindley dies, everything he owns becomes Heathcliff's. ...
Zeus and Hera battle back and forth over Jason. ... Once Jason makes it home his quest is not yet finished. ... Jason must first, confront Pelias, who now has the Fleece after killing his son, Jason's brother, who stole it from Jason. He confronts Pelias, who in return tries to kill Jason, but Jason knowing of Pelias's trick, kills Pelias instead. ... The Gods play major roles in Jason's quest. ...
He believed that Heathcliff was taking his place as a brother and the favorite child. ... after he threw an iron weight at Heathcliff and ˜hit him in the breast'. ... Time passes and Cathy compares the two men in her life now, Heathcliff and Edgar, and this shows the reader that she is over Heathcliff and has found a new man to love by saying that leaving Heathcliff and finding Edgar is like trading ˜a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful fertile valley'. ... This shows that she believes that she is Heathcliff and Heathcliff is she, they are one person and this ...
