What Is Heathcliff Victimized

Because children in Wuthering Heights are far to be innocent as other children in 19th century English Literature, moreover they are both cruel torturers and abused victims in several moments. Therefore, Heathcliff is physically abused by Hindley after Mr. Earnshaw´s death, but also psychologically by Nelly the day of his arriving. But when he grows up, he becomes in a violent character who abuses of Hareton, young Cathy Linton, and even his own son Linton. Furthermore, Heathcliff as Catherine reveals cruelty, not only with people, but also to animals. … (nido)…. In the case of Catherine, she is a strong girl who treats everyone with violence in a savage way. In her very childhood, she is presented in a masculine taste, (she asks for a whip as a present, a masculine object of domination) thus Cathy is far to be an innocent girl, and there is a contrast between what Nelly explains about her and her acts. She also has violent reactions in her adulthood. In Cathy there is an identification between childhood and violent and as she never grows up, she is violent during all her life. By contrast, Heathcliff, who represents the traditional child shown in other novels such as Dickens works, in his childhood, he is only violent with those who pain him. And his violence will develop as he grows up, parallel to his revenge. In fact Nelly highlights his

In this essay, I will compare and contrast Linton and Cathy’s reactions to Heathcliff’s abusive behavior he displayed towards them. In the story Heathcliff has a son named Linton, when Linton grows older he becomes very ill, which causes him to grow weak. Heathcliff notices this and uses it to his advantage. Cathy is not weak; Heathcliff realizes that it is not as easy to trick her as he did his son Linton.

Heathcliff, after the death of Catherine, continues to be haunted by the ghost of Catherine, which leads him to doing very absurd things including digging up Catherine’s grave, and locking Nelly and Cathy in a room for days. In addition, Isabella is not in approval of the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff, leading to the lack of peace displayed in the relationship, as she is tries to pull the two apart, by getting closer to Heathcliff and refusing to come home. Like the unresolved book, Catherine and Heathcliff are not able to tie the loose ends to their relationship, leading to lack of peace. One does not receive closure with an unresolved book, and, similarly, neither does the couple. In addition, Heathcliff continues to do whatever he can to find answers to his questions, like we may do when we finish a book without

This passage illustrates not only the stark difference of demeanor between Nelly and Heathcliff, but the shift in Heathcliff’s conduct and mindset when Catherine was no longer around. The passage begins by Nelly describing how peaceful Catherine’s death was and how she hoped her afterlife would be just as peaceful. Immediately after, Heathcliff proclaims that Catherine should “wake in torment”; a stark difference to Nelly and Heathcliff’s attitude about her death. Nelly wishes her to be peaceful, but Heathcliff is so selfish that he wishes Catherine a tortured afterlife to comfort himself. The juxtaposition of the peaceful tone set by Nelly and the agony expressed by Heathcliff sets the stage for Heathcliff’s deranged manner that continues through the rest of the book.

In the first three chapters of Wuthering Heights, Lockwood is forced to grapple with the mystery of Heathcliff’s cruelty, watching him do things from “[striking] his forehead with rage” and “savage vehemence” to threatening to physically assault his daughter-in-law (27). The narrative which the original text of Wuthering Heights provides, however, is not concerned with the emotional progression of the individual, assuming that Heathcliff’s savagery is simply characteristic of his very existence. It is through Catherine Earnshaw’s perspective, manifested through her diaries, that Heathcliff’s cruelty can be assessed, not only as a product of his social environment, but as something deeply entrenched in his racial differences. Catherine’s sympathy

As emotions run high after Catherine’s funeral, Nelly gets a visit from an unexpected visitor; Isabella. As Catherine enters the ground and gone from Thrushcross Grange, Heathcliff emerges back into the property with an axe to grind. Isabella seeks Nelly for refuge from her soon to be ex-husband’s antics and reveals how truly evil he is. The setting of the environment foreshadows the terrible actions Heathcliff committed in Isabella’s story. The abnormal weather and its effect on the surrounding environment express the transition of Heathcliff's destruction:

He held hate in his eyes when he spoke of a man named Hindly. He spoke of vengeance; I would soothe him by asking of his love back home. He only spoke kindly of that beautiful girl named Catherine. He spoke of her like she was the one who placed the stars and the moon in the night sky. One day, he opened up of his wishes to send a letter to his love, Cathy. He never sent that letter for that same afternoon as we were walking back to the palace I slipped on the rocks on the side of a cliff we had been sitting on. Before I knew it, my legs were hanging off the edge, immediately Heathcliff gripped my arms. He pulled me up and carried me back home where my parents fussed over me for hours. Mother praised Heathcliff as “her hero” and father gave him a pat on the back and a firm

With the invention of sedentary farming came the still-relevant concept of social stratification. Power-hungry leaders rose to power globally as beneath them, inferior social and economic classes divided themselves, vying for the desirable positions of the privileged. Except in a few extremely rare communities, a true egalitarian society can never be achieved; the power gap and humanity’s greed are too great. This real life struggle for control over the masses is an important theme in Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë as Heathcliff, the natural born lower-class “gipsy,” fights his way through the novel to gain power over his unjust society (Brontë 37).

In "Wuthering Heights," we see tragedies follow one by one, most of which are focused around Heathcliff, the antihero of the novel. After the troubled childhood Heathcliff goes through, he becomes embittered towards the world and loses interest in everything but Catherine Earnshaw –his childhood sweetheart whom he had instantly fallen in love with.—and revenge upon anyone who had tried to keep them apart.

He’ll undertake to torture any number of cats,” (Brontë 338). Any display of sympathy from Cathy amplifies Linton’s ability to be selfish and petulant. Without Cathy the relationship would be non-existent, since both the relationship and Linton rely on her. More importantly, if Linton were not revealed to be ill, Cathy’s sensitive heart may have not have accepted his cruelty or marriage. Cathy and Linton’s relationship possesses no passion or kindness, since it is essentially Cathy's guilt which motivates her to care, and Linton’s motivation lies in his fear of Heathcliff treating him cruelly. Cathy plays the martyr, displaying the third unhealthy adolescent relationship, ridden with irrational guilt, and motherly instincts to protect and care for the weak. Cathy believes Linton needs her, and associates this with loving her, accepting all his anger and flaws, “I know he has a bad nature...But I’m glad I’ve a better to forgive it; and I know he loves me, and for that reason I love him.” (Brontë 353). She herself states she loves Linton since he loves her, and boasts she is capable of forgiving Linton even though he acts

nurture,” the trauma Heathcliff experiences from Catherine’s death was clearly not the basis for his volatile personality, which his unclear familial background and inconsistent treatment by the Earnshaws may have been, but it absolutely contributed to it. His behavior gets immediately more violent after her death, when he experiences “a frightful paroxysm of ungovernable passion” and, by Nelly’s observation, acts like “a savage beast getting goaded to death.” (130) This event was a turning point in his psychological state; the language Bronte uses to describe him and his behavior is more intense than it was previously, for example - her use of the adjective “hardened” versus “savage” demonstrates this evolution. Such a depiction may have been a sort of warning to readers about the dangers of holding on to the past, amplified by Heathcliff’s

In Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff and Cathy both refuse to change their ways or their childlike views of the love that they share with each other, and it is shown through the way they speak. Heathcliff becomes vengeful and aggressive, in order to try to bring himself closer to Cathy, despite the fact that she’s dead, by possessing everything that was dear to her- including the people she was close with, whom he begins to abuse. ‘And what does not recall her? … and caught by glimpses in every object by day, I am surrounded with her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women—my own features—mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her!’ (Brontë, 400-401). Heathcliff speaks about the world after Cathy’s death with abhorrence. He cannot believe that the

From the beginning of the novel and most likely from the beginning of Heathcliff's life, he has suffered pain and rejection. When he is brought to Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw, he is viewed as an inanimate object rather than a child. Mrs. Earnshaw was ready to fling him out of doors, while Nelly put him on the landing of the stairs hoping that he 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, he 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.

When Catherine I returns from Thrushcross Grange, she is unrecognizable to Heathcliff because she has evolved into a more complete version of herself that he cannot accept. Cathy I tries to embrace Heathcliff in a hug and, as William Blake would say, momentarily touch souls, but Heathcliff adopts a “black”, “cross” expression, because the Catherine I that has returned is not the Catherine I that he wanted back (Brontë 42). Heathcliff’s “shame and pride [throw] double gloom over his countenance, and [keep] him immoveable” (Brontë 42). He stares at the girl he thought was his other half and cannot find anything familiar under the perfect dress and neat coils of silken hair. Heathcliff is “immoveable” in that he will not be swayed to the new Cathy I’s side, even if she contained this version of herself within all along. He mistakenly thinks that he is only in love with the Catherine I whom he thought he knew, rather than the person that Catherine I actually is, which includes Thrushcross Grange’s influence. By forcing Cathy I into the walls of his perception, Heathcliff erases her personhood completely. While Heathcliff clings to the Catherine I that he remembers, Cathy I believes that if she belongs partially at Thrushcross Grange, then he must as well. Cathy I likes the person she became at Thrushcross Grange because she always had some Grange in her

Sensitivity is not an object of Heathcliff’s appeal, and ceases to be when he attains the title of landlord. Evidence of his mental condition lies in the incident where he ruthlessly kidnaps Cathy Linton for his son, and holds her hostage. Environmental fostering due to the seemingly schizotypal Edgar, according to the servant Nellie Dean, contributed to the coldness of Heathcliff