... estates that serve as the setting for much of the novel are the embodiment of the social hierarchy between their respective inhabitants. It is this representation by the two houses that drastically affect the decisions of Heathcliff and Catherine. Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange advocate both the negative and positive effects that societal pressures such as classism have on the characters relationships and interactions. The contrasting estates abilities ... class of this house has a great effect on Heathcliff and Catherine's relationship, and as individual characters. The class...

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... the reader's curiosity about the strange histories of the denizens of Wuthering Heights. The family relationships, including multiple Earnshaws, Catherines, Lintons, and Heathcliffs, seem at this point in the novel to intertwine with baffling complexity, and the characters, because Lockwood first encounters them late in their story, seem full of mysterious passions and ancient, hidden resentments. Even the setting of this history seems to possess its own secrets. Wild ... the idea that Nelly's feelings for the other characters in the novel are deeper and more complicated than she reveal...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... word obsession is defined in the dictionary as: "a compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion."" Emily Bronte's early Aristotelian tragedy "Wuthering Heights- is a story about love turned obsession. Bronte suggests this ruling passion leads the characters to be impulsive, vindictive, jealous and unintelligent, which consequentially have direct effects on their own lives, the lives of those whom surround them and the lives of the ... . By marrying Linton she thinks this will raise Heathcliff in society. So she goes ahead and accepts Edgar's proposal. This quick decision is baffling, i...

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• Grade Level: High School