Two of the main characters from Wuthering Heights, Catherine and Heathcliff's passion for one another seem to be the center of the novel. At first, the Earnshaw children despised the dark-skinned Heathcliff. But Catherine quickly comes to love him, and the two soon grow inseparable, spending their days playing on the moors. After Catherine's recuperation at Thrushcross Grange, she becomes infatuated with Edgar. Her relationship with Heathcliff grows more complicated.
Nobody but I even did him the kindness to call him a dirty boy, and bid him wash himself, once a week; and children of his age seldom have a natural pleasure in soap and water. Therefore, not to mention his clothes, which had seen three months' service in mire and dust, and his thick uncombed hair, the surface of his face and hands was dismally beclouded (45).
She calls Heathcliff a dirty, grimy, and disheveled boy. She is used to the ways of the Linton's during her recuperation. She raised the bar of her relationship standards. Despite her overpowering love for Heathcliff, Catherine's desire for social advancement prompts her to become engaged to Edgar. Heathcliff, disappointed and saddened, runs away from Wuthering Heights and returns soon after Catherine and Edgar's marriage. He returns as a polished, gentlemanly, and physically impressive man. While Catherine becomes sick, Heathcliff visits her, despite the way she made him feel by marrying Edgar. They enter into a dramatic, highly charged conversation during which Catherine claims that both Heathcliff and Edgar have broken her heart. She says that she cannot bear dying while Heathcliff remains alive, and that she never wants to be apart from him. She begs for his forgiveness. Their relationship has been up and down like a roller coaster. One day she is begging for his forgiveness and the next she cannot bear to even see him.
Another difference between Jason and Heathcliff is that Jason was an abuser and Heathcliff was an abuser and the abused.
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 ...
