Violence in Wuthering Heights
Violence seems to be a reoccurring encounter in Emily Brontė's novel, Wuthering Heights. Emily Brontė's reason for using so much violence is to express the emotion portrayed by the characters. Throughout the novel, Heathcliff is in search of revenge and through violence he had a way of getting it. Communication is a big reason for violence, due to the lack of the character' ability to verbally communicate. Jealously also give rise to violence because the characters of Wuthering Heights are spoiled. Heathcliff' decides to seek revenge on Hindley by slowly draining away his wealth, land, and health. Heathcliff fully displays his malice after Catherine dies, the only person who could have saved him. With nothing to lose, he expands his revenge not only to Edgar and to Isabel Linton, but onto the next generation as well, by saying "I have no pity! The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails! It's a moral teething; and I grind with greater energy, in proportion to the increase in pain," (183) he exclaimed. Unlike typical antagonists, who usually have the hearts to realize that they have reached their
Like a virus, throughout the body until it is nothing but old, worn, and black. If Catherine was not there to stop him, he might have killed Hindley as previously planned. Not only emotionally tormenting the people around him, Heathcliff is capable of physical harm as well. The Violence in Wuthering Heights is still an example for today's society. The green eye of jealously seem to swallow up the "victims" of Wuthering Heights and leave behind nothing but a whirlwind of hurt, rage, and sadness. Catharine is callous towards Isabel and Heathcliff catches her on it by saying, "If I imagined you really wished to marry Isabel, I'd cut my throat. Because Cathy knows of Isabel's lust for Heathcliff and because she knows she had to cut short her own emotions for Heathcliff she told him, "She had been dying for your sake for several weeks. He goes so far as to use his own son in the plot of acquiring Thrushcross Grange. Emily Brontė shows violence at its finest and, in the characters of the book, makes it an equal partner with love.
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