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A 5 page paper that describes the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine in terms of societal constraints. This writer presents the significant adversity faced by these two characters that made their love unattainable. No additional sources cited.
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of a socially prominent family. Marriage to Heathcliff would promise a lifetime of sexual fireworks, but little in the way of money and status. However, marriage into the
Linton family would provide Cathy with the social acceptability she has always longed for. How are these two very different men who were destined to be lifelong rivals for the
affections of one woman depicted in Wuthering Heights? Heathcliff first came into the Earnshaws lives as a poor orphaned child who was taken home by Cathys father, who had
taken a fancy to the mischievous boy (referred to by Mrs. Earnshaw "that gypsy brat"). He is a "dirty, ragged, black-haired child" who spoke in unintelligible gibberish (Bronte 29).
Interestingly, Emily Brontes initial description of the young Heathcliff (so named by Mr. Earnshaw) not as a human being, but rather as an it: "What he [Mr. Earnshaw]
meant to do with it, and whether he were mad... was a tale of his seeing it starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool,
where he picked it up and enquired for its owner. Not a soul knew to whom it belonged" (29-30). From the very beginning, Heathcliff was an outcast, a
even among the Earnshaw children, who were not nearly as socially-connected as were the Lintons. Heathcliff was a not-particularly bright nonconformist who was forced to survive by his wits.
He was moody, temperamental and intense. Edgar Linton couldnt be more different from Heathcliff. He is initially portrayed as being sensitive and compassionate, standing "on the
hearth weeping silently" for a dog who he had no particular affection for (Bronte 37). However, Edgar emerges as a man extremely lacking in passion for everything and everyone.
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