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Wuthering Heights: Summary - Online Essays

Wuthering Heights: Summary

Emily Bronte was born in Thorton, Yorkshire, in 1918. Wuthering Heights was
Bronte's only book; however, she died in 1848 and never knew of the book's
success. It is said by many to be the finest novel in the English language.
Just before she dies, Catherine Earnshaw gives birth to a beautiful baby girl
named Cathy. After Catherine married Edgar, heathcliff becomes jealous and
marries Edgar's sister, Isabella. Isabella then gives birth to Heathcliff's son
Linton. Wuthering Heights, by Wmily Bronte, is a novel full of contrast between
Catherine and Cathy and Heathcliff and Linton.

While Cathy is growing up, the reader begins t see the contrast between cathy
and her mother. Catherine ...

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wants both Heathcliff and Edgar to suffer-Edgar, because he never understood
heraffection for Heathcliff; and Heathcliff, because he never understood why
she married Edgar. Cathy has a mind of her own and some of Catherine's
willfullness. She is also capable of great sympathy towards Linton, whom she
marries and finally Hareton Earnshaw.

Heathcliff is a strange mix-ture of the refined and incouth; slovently, yet
dresses and acts like a g gentleman. While being dark with the look of a gypsy,
he is quite handsome. His son, linton resembles his mother, Isabella, as he is
blonde, pretty, feeble, adn effeminate. It is ironic thtat Heathcliff's son
should be so weak and sickly that he dies at the age of seventeen.

Although Heathcliff is his father, Linton displays none of Heathcliff's
characteristics. Heathcliff is a character full of brutality. Heathcliff shows
this brutality on several occasions. The most graphic occasion is after
Catherine's funeral, when Hindley threatens ...

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