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"I could gather from her that he continued in weak health, and was a tiresome inmate. She said that Mr Heathcliff seemed to dislike him ever longer and worse, though he took some trouble to conceal it.
He had an antipathy to the sound of his voice, and could not do at all with his sitting in the same room with him many minutes together... for he was constantly getting coughs, and colds, and aches, and pains of some sort. 'And I never knew such a faint-hearted creature,' added the woman: 'nor one so careful of hisseln, He will not go on, if I leave the window open a bit late in the evening. Oh! it's killing, a breath of night air! And he must ahve a fire in the middle of summer... have sweets and dainties, and always milk... and there he'll sit, wrapped in his furred cloak in his chair...'"

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'But leave me and I shall be killed!...And perhaps you will consent-and he'll let me die with you!'

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'And why didn't mamma speak to me about him?' persevered the child. 'She often talked of uncle, and I learnt to love him long ago. How am I to love papa? I don't know him.'

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"'I feared I should have to come down and fetch my property myself. You've brought it, have you? Let us see what we can make of it.'... You are my son, then, I'll tell you: and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you posessed... Besides he's mine, and I want the triumph of seeing my descendant fairly lord of their estates: my child hiring their children to till their fathers' land for wages. That is the sole consideration which can make me endure the whelp: I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!...if I wished any blessing in the world, it was to find him a worthy object of pride: and I'm bitterly dissapointed with the whey-faced whining wretch!'"

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With streaming face and an expression of agony, Linton had thrown his nerveless frame along the ground: he seemed convulsed with exquisite terror.

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'I care nothing for his anger,' exclaimed Cathy, imagining she would be its object.

'But I do,' said her cousin, shuddering. 'Don't provoke him against me, Catherine, for he is very hard.'

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Heathcliff, Linton Heathcliff (& his characters development)

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Considering that Linton is the son of Heathcliff and Isabella (two not-so-sane characters) it is expected that he act crazily. Even his first descriptions already make a distinction between him and the rest of the characters at Thrushcross Grange: "A pale, delicate, effeminate boy, who might have been taken for my master's younger brother...

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Conclusion analysis

Good conclusions usually refer back to the question or title and address it directly - for example by using key words from the title.
How well do you think these conclusions address the title or question? Answering these questions should help you find out.

1. Do they use key words from the title or question?

2. Do they answer the question directly?

3. Can you work out the question or title just by reading the conclusion?

While Heathcliff and Edgar act as foils for one another, it is more useful to consider their function in the novel as individuals. Discuss"In conclusion I believe that the only way to gain a thorough understanding of these characters is to view them both as individuals and as a contrasting pair. The insight gained from observing their actions within themselves provides a foundation of knowledge which can then be built on by considering their value and consequence in relation to each other's actions."

Explain and discuss in detail the importance of relationships or conflicts in each of your studied texts? - "Moving Pictures', by Ro Cambridge, and 'my father running with a dead boy', by Carl Nixon"In conclusion, parent/child relationships have been central to these stories. Both narrators are coming to terms with the death of a parent. A daughter wants a less frumpy mother, loses her, grows into the image of her mother as she grieves, finds her memories and welcomes them and is finally healed. Her relationship with her mother is re-established at the birth of her daughter. The story ends with a shared smile. And a son's memories are tinged with regret that his father was too old even to have been playful - and that their relationship was strained. But during the course of the funeral he is given the opportunity to see the person his father was before he aged. He meets his complex compassionate and ultimately humbler father. And this story also ends with a smile."

Wuthering Heights accurately reflects the sharp class divisions of nineteenth century England. Discuss"In conclusion, due to the choices made by characters within this novel; Cathy marrying Edgar, and her brother keeping his marriage to a woman of a lower social class a secret from his father, it is clear that Emily had a clear knowledge of class-divisions of this time and clearly reflects these expectations within 'Wuthering Heights'."

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Emily Bronte - A-Level English - Marked by Teachers.com

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Good conclusions usually refer back to the question or title and address it directly - for example by using key words from the title. How well do you think these conclusions address the title or question? Answering these questions should help you find out. Do they use key words from the title or question?

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The Character of Heathcliff

Heathcliff is introduced in Nelly's narration as a seven year old Liverpool foundling (probably an Irish famine immigrant) brought back to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. His story, in the words of Nelly, is "a cuckoo's story", Heathcliff is the usurper. His presence in Wuthering Heights overthrows the prevailing habits of the Earnshaw family, members of the family soon become involved in turmoil and fighting and family relationships become spiteful and hateful. Even on his first night, he is the reason Mr. Earnshaw breaks the toys he had bought for his children. Nelly recorded "From the very beginning he bred bad feelings in the house". Heathcliff usurps the affections of Mr. Earnshaw to the exclusion of young Hindley-: "The young master had learnt to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend". Such is the extent of Heathcliff's usurpation, that Hindley is sent off to boarding school. As an adult, Heathcliff repeats the process, as he usurps the affections of Hareton and takes pride in the fact that he would be defended by the son in a fight with the father. Ultimately, Heathcliff parallels the cuckoo in taking over ownership of the Heights, thereby dispossessing the rightful heir, Hareton. Heathcliff destroys the natural familial emotional bonds which previously existed in the Earnshaw household. His presence results in a polarisation within the family, at first Mr. Earnshaw and the Catherine become his allies, whereas Hindley becomes his enemy.

The role of the usurper leads to Heathcliff's suffering at the hands of Hindley and it is the treatment neated out by Hindley to Heathcliff after the death of Mr. Earnshaw, that arouses in Heathcliff a deep and abiding hatred and an all consuming passion for revenge. Heathcliff never forgot an injury inflicted on him during childhood and on his return to Wuthering Heights, after a three year absence, the impulse to revenge himself on all those he regards as having wronged him becomes his overpowering passion. He ruins Hindley by encouraging his excessive drinking and gambling and with him aside he then turns his attention to Hareton-: "We'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another with the same wind to twist it". His revenge is also directed towards Edgar Linton, whom he sees as having stolen Catherine from him. He devises a series of schemes to wrest the ownership of the Grange from the Linton family and secure it for himself. He marries Isabella to "gain a foothold in the Grange" and to reek revenge on Edgar-: "Edgar's proxy in suffering". He forces the marriage between his son Linton and Cathy to secure the ownership of the Grange, his revenge on Edgar is complete, he having lost his sister, wife daughter, estate and in the final analysis, the closest companionship of Catherine in death.

Heathcliff's role as an avenger is helped by his intelligence and understanding, not just of his own motivations, but of the motivations of others. He recognises the source of Isabella's infatuation that-: "she abandoned this under a delusion" - "picturing in me a hero of romance". He also capitalises on Linton's poor health by inviting the pity of Cathy so that her affection and sympathy would facilitate a marriage that would leave he, Heathcliff, as master of the Grange.

As Heathcliff seeks his revenge, he becomes fiendish and is constantly associated with diabolical feelings, images and actions. The use of the imagery reinforces the inhuman aspect of Heathcliff. He regrets saving the infant Hareton. Nelly recalled that his face bore the greatest pain at he being the instrument that thwarted his own revenge. He takes perverse pleasure in the fact that Hareton was born with a sensitive nature which Heathcliff has corrupted and degraded. Heathcliff's pleasure at this corruption is increased by the fact that-: "Hareton is damnably fond of me". Heathcliff's cruelty is also evident when he hangs Isabella's dog despite her protestations. His attitude is devoid of fatherly feeling. He sees him only as a pawn in his revenge and his main consideration lies in calculating whether Linton lives long enough to have married Catherine so having acquired Thrushcross Grange-: "We calculate it will scarcely last 'till it's eighteen." Once the marriage has taken place, Linton's life is seen as worthless by Heathcliff-: "His life is not worth a farthing, and I won't spend a farthing on him" His cruel treatment of Isabella is, for him, a source of enjoyment. He tells Nelly-: "The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush the entrails" Isabella recognises the sadistic treatment by Heathcliff and asks- "Is Mr. Heathcliff a man - is he the devil?"

There is, however, another side of the novels leading character. At no point in the novel can we doubt Heathcliff's eternal faithfulness to Catherine. His love survives her rejection of him-: "It would degrade me to marry Mr. Heathcliff" and despite her marriage to Edgar, Heathcliff's love for her continues undaunted. Heathcliff suffers much emotional rejection, but at no point does he waiver in his loyalty to her-: "I seek no revenge on you...the tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them" His genuine concern for Catherine prevents him from exacting direct revenge from Edgar. He says to Catherine-: "I would of died by witches before I would have touched a single hair of his head." When hearing of Catherine's illness, he exclaims-: "Existence after loosing her would be hell" In this statement, we can see the extent of Heathcliff's dedication and loyalty to Catherine and the sense of desolation her death would bring to him.

At times in the novel, Heathcliff is portrayed as a tormented spirit. After the death of Catherine, Heathcliff's lust for love is gone. His existence is then focused totally on exacting revenge. As his death approaches, he confesses to Nelly the extent of Catherine's hold over him, though she's now been dead 18 years-: "I cannot look down into the floor, her features are shaped in the flags...in every cloud, in every tree." The degree in which Heathcliff is tormented by Catherine is reflected when he said-: "Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy?...you love me, what right had you to leave me?" The sense of despair following news of Catherine's death is a good example of Heathcliff's tormented spirit-: "I cannot live without my life, I cannot live without my soul" He, said Nelly, howled not like a man, but like a savage beast getting goaded to death with knives and spears. Life for Heathcliff after Catherine's death is an unnatural existence. He feels he belongs with her both in body and in spirit and has already arranged with the Sexton to be buried beside her. Life for him is "like bending back a stiff spring". The young Cathy recognises that Heathcliff has rejected all society although she doesn't realise that his attachment remains to her late mother-: "Mr. Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you...your cruelty arises from your greater misery."

From the beginning of the novel and most likely from the beginning of his life, he has suffered pain and rejection. When he is brought to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw, he is viewed as a thing rather than a child. Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors, while Nelly put it on the landing of the stairs hoping that it would be gone the next day. Without having done anything to deserve rejection, Heathcliff is made to feel like an outsider, following the death of Mr. Earnshaw, suffers cruel mistreatment at the hands of Hindley. In these formative years, he is deprived of love, sociability and education, according to Nelly, Hindley's treatment of Heathcliff was "enough to make a fiend of a saint". He is separated from the family, reduced to the status of a servant, forced to become a farm hand, undergoes regular beatings and is forcibly separated from Catherine. Personality that Heathcliff develops in his adult life has been formed in response to the deprivation of his childhood. Heathcliff received constant reminder of his lesser status e.g. on his first visit to the Grange, Catherine is taken into the Linton household, whereas Heathcliff is rejected, made fun of, and alienated. Later, when Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights, her changed appearance further alienates Heathcliff, a point emphasised during the visits of the Linton children, Heathcliff was not considered fit to join the party. The final sense of alienation and the most damning occurs with Catherine's marriage to Edgar, this he considers a betrayal of his love for her, in favour of the social status and civilised existence of the Grange. Heathcliff is however proud and determined and does not cower when confronted by those who consider themselves to be superiors, his determination was evident when taking advantage of Mr. Earnshaw's favouritism and exchanging horses with young Hindley, though his situation and position is somewhat worsened after the death of Mr. Earnshaw, Heathcliff's pride nevertheless remains intact. When Catherine returned to the Heights after her five week stay at the Grange, she is much changed in appearance and makes fun of the ragged Heathcliff, when ordered to shake hands with Catherine by Hindley, Heathcliff refuses, saying-: "I shall not stand to be laughed at, I shall not hear it". Similarly, when insulted by Edgar during one of his visits to the Heights, Heathcliff empties a toureen of applesauce over him. Finally, when the realisation dawns on him that Catherine has chosen status, wealth and position in preference to him, he disappears for three years and returns in the guise of a gentleman.

Part of Heathcliff's survival mechanism during the period that he is being terrorised by Hindley, is the thought and prospect of revenge, he is determined to have is own back and confesses to Nelly-: "I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last, I hope he will not die before I do".

As Heathcliff approaches death and a reunion of Catherine, his resolve for revenge weakens until he no longer has an interest in that former preoccupation-: "I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction". This dousing of the flames of Heathcliff's revenge is a catalyst not just in the novel but in the histories of the Earnshaw and Linton families. Hareton and Cathy are spared, the sense of evil visited upon them by Heathcliff is removed and there occurs a spiritual renaissance within Wuthering Heights.

Heathcliff is a many faced character, in his early years he is characterised somewhat by his fiery temper, his sulleness, his proud nature, his fierce attachment to Catherine, his spitefulness and his capacity for hatred. The adult Heathcliff, who returns to Wuthering Heights after a three year absence, is a super-human villain driven by revenge, distorted by the sense of the wrongs done to him and made emotionally unstable by Catherine's marriage. This later Heathcliff is characterised by callousness by an incapacity to love and eventually by an all consuming passion for revenge against those who have wronged him and for unification with his beloved Catherine.

Stages in Heathcliff's Development:

A.) Arrival in Wuthering Heights and favoured child of Mr. Earnshaw, beginnings of relationship with Catherine.

B.) Mistreatment under Hindley, loss of social position, rejection by Catherine.

C.) Three year absence from the Heights.

D.) Returned in the guise of a gentleman, re-establishment of relationship with Catherine, execution of plan of revenge.

E.) Weakening of resolve, approach of death, admission of failure, burial beside Catherine.

: Background : Cathy Linton : Catherine Earnshaw : Edgar Linton : Hareton : Narrative Techniques : Heathcliff The Revenger : Themes of the Novel : Weather Quotations

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The Character of Heathcliff Heathcliff is introduced in Nelly's narration as a seven year old Liverpool foundling (probably an Irish famine immigrant) brought back to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw. His story, in the words of Nelly, is "a cuckoo's story", Heathcliff is the usurper.

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Characters

Heathcliff is an anti-hero - he is the male lead in the book, but does not display the usual heroic qualities. As both hero and villain he reflects the theme of doubles that runs through the book.

Heathcliff comes from unknown origins: as an orphan he is beyond the strict Victorian class system. This means that he doesn't have a rightful place, making it difficult for him to fit in. Old Mr Earnshaw initially makes him part of the family, naming him after a dead son, and making him an equal. Later Hindley, Earnshaw's son by birth, reduces Heathcliff to the level of servant, and Catherine Earnshaw (Catherine) declares that she cannot marry him because to do so would 'degrade' her social status. Yet in the end Heathcliff ends up master of everything.

Heathcliff loves Catherine obsessively, to the point of madness. When she dies he makes the dramatic statement "I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"

He contributes to the theme of the [ supernatural supernatural: Something that cannot be explained by the laws of nature; for example, gods and ghosts.] . Nelly Dean variously describes or thinks of Heathcliff as a goblin, a vampire and a ghoul - though she is either being metaphorical or tells herself off for being ridiculous. Heathcliff also believes immediately in Catherine's ghost when Lockwood sees it at the beginning of the novel - and at the end he becomes a ghost himself.

Heathcliff proves that cruelty begets cruelty - the way he is treated, particularly by Hindley (and also by Catherine when she marries Edgar Linton), leads him to take revenge. As part of that revenge he takes delight in provoking and corrupting others: Edgar Linton calls him a "moral poison", which seems quite reasonable given his effect on Hareton Earnshaw, for example.

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BBC - GCSE Bitesize English Literature - Characters : Revision, Page 2

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Characters Heathcliff is an anti-hero - he is the male lead in the book, but does not display the usual heroic qualities. As both hero and villain he reflects the theme of doubles that runs through the book. Heathcliff comes from unknown origins: as an orphan he is beyond the strict Victorian class system.

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Linton Heathcliff

Linton Heathcliff has none of his father's strength and vitality. Instead he is "fretful" and "ailing", as Nelly Dean puts it when he first arrives.

Only when Catherine treats him "like a baby" does he begin to revive a little. He is always ill in some way, but he also seems prone to hypochondria

. He does die young, leaving his young widow Catherine Heathcliff in her father-in-law's power.

He is not allowed to stay at Thrushcross Grange: Heathcliff insists on having him return to Wuthering Heights.

Once there, he is under his father's thumb, and Heathcliff uses the teenager Linton, when a few years have passed, to manipulate Catherine Linton.

Heathcliff is determined that the two of them should marry.

Linton is also a victim of Heathcliff's cruelty: he is forced to help trap Catherine so that she must marry him, turning him traitor, but he is afraid his father would kill him if he resisted.

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SparkNotes: Wuthering Heights: Character List

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A list of all the characters in Wuthering Heights. The Wuthering Heights characters covered include: Heathcliff, Catherine, Edgar Linton, Nelly Dean, Lockwood, Young Catherine, Hareton Earnshaw, Linton Heathcliff, Hindley Earnshaw, Isabella Linton, Mr. Earnshaw, Mrs. Earnshaw, Joseph, Frances Earnshaw, Mr. Linton, Mrs. Linton, Zillah, Mr. Green.

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Heathcliff, Linton Heathcliff (& his characters development)

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Considering that Linton is the son of Heathcliff and Isabella (two not-so-sane characters) it is expected that he act crazily. Even his first descriptions already make a distinction between him and the rest of the characters at Thrushcross Grange: "A pale, delicate, effeminate boy, who might have been taken for my master's younger brother...

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Revision:Wuthering heights - chapter 7 volume 2 | The Student Room

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Cathy missed her cousin when she woke up that morning, but time made her forget him. Linton grew up to be a selfish and disagreeable boy, continually complaining about his health. On Cathy's sixteenth birthday she and Ellen went out on the moors, and strayed onto Heathcliff's land, where he found them.

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As a part of Characters' Profile Project, students analysed characters' motives behind their demeanor.

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Destructive Relationships in Wuthering Heights :: Wuthering Heights Essays

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Category: Wuthering Heights Essays; Title: Destructive Relationships in Wuthering Heights

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shvoong.com - Resources and Information.

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shvoong.com is your first and best source for all of the information you're looking for. From general topics to more of what you would expect to find here, shvoong.com has it all. We hope you find what you are searching for!

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Linton: Linton is the son of Isabella and Heathcliff. Isabella had him after she ran away from Heathcliff, and he is a sickly child. Heathcliff takes him after Isabella's death, in order to use him to gain the property of his uncle Edgar. Linton is always sick and rather selfish. Towards the end of his life though, he does help Catherine, and he dies young.