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In Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, many family issues and views are shown. Heathcliff in particular has a distorted view of family that can be attributed to his experiences before joining the Earnshaw family and later on, in his early encounters with them. This can be concluded by his interactions at Wuthering Heights. The cause of Heathcliff's warped perspective of family can be traced to his early life and life with the Earnshaw family Heathcliff's family history and early episodes with the Earnshaw family negatively affected his perspective of family. Heathcliff was a child gypsy who was brought home by Mr. Earnshaw on a trip home from business in Liverpool. Although information about Heathcliff's early life is unknown, one can almost be sure that he had been lost or abandoned by his parents. And because of Heathcliff's different, much darker skin tone, he probably faced harsh racism as a child. When he arrived at home of the Earnshaw family he was described as "a dirty, ragged, black-haired child; big enough both to walk and talk..."(Bronte, 1990, p 29). The very first description of Heathcliff portrays him as a dirty animal and in turn the family makes strong indications that they d
This turbulent beginning in a new family and turn of events as a youth help escalate Heathcliff's distorted perspective of family. Earnshaw had died, Heathcliff had become his favorite son and Hindley was sent off to college. "He drove him [Heathcliff] from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instructions of the curate, and insisted that he should labor out of doors instead, compelling him to do so, as hard as any other lad on the farm. Earnshaw took him in and the only family love Heathcliff received was from Catherine. Heathcliff's interactions with his "new" family negatively affected him. Hindl!ey treated Heathcliff like an old servant and did not even allow him to sleep in the estate. It is evident that Hindley bullied him often as a result. Emily Bronte may have decided to reflect this type of family situation to educate the people of her time. But in today' Heathcliff has a tainted view of family and Emily Bronte showed this specific scenario to show the public that there are different types of families. Heathcliff's experiences before and with the Earnshaw family destroyed his ideal of family and love. Regardless of what Hindley thought, she! grew a strong friendship with him and they became best friends.
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