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‘Discuss the success of presenting the unique relationship of Cathy and Heathcliff and the success Bront¸ had in portraying it to a reader with no experience of this rural lifestyle.’

In the novel Wuthering Heights the society is used as a contrast to show just how unique Cathy and Heathcliff’s love is. The author, Emily Bront¸ portrays a love so strong that it can still be distinctive in our modern times. Emily Bront¸ uses a narrator, Lockwood, to help us understand and become involved in their relationship.

The narrator Lockwood makes wrong assumptions about Heathcliff and the people around, he says ‘I have a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort.’ Lockwood is highly inquisitive and thinks he has everyone sussed, when he really knows nothing of their troubles and losses. He is judgemental until Nelly, the house keeper, tells him what they are really like.

Lockwood’s opinion of Heathcliff is similar to the other characters when he first starts to hear about him. Heathcliff is often referred to as something ‘’ Dark’’ and ‘’Un-natural’’, Hindley would regularly call him ‘Gipsy’ or ‘Imp of...

Posted by: Jack Drewes

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