Analyse Bronte’s Presentation of Love in the Novel...

Analyse Bronte’s Presentation of Love in the Novel â€Å"Wuthering Heights† Focusing Specifically on Chapters One to Sixteen The gothic novel â€Å"Wuthering Heights† narrates the story of love and passion between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Love is one of the main themes that the novel basis’s around, and how this opposed passion between the two main characters ultimately demolishes themselves and all that are around them. Here we are shown the extremities of the emotions that are tied up within the characters presented with contrasts in behaviour. These extremities and contrasts can be suggested by the name of the novel itself, as â€Å"Wuthering† which defines as blustery and stormy implies that occasionally,†¦show more content†¦Earnshaw spoils Heathcliff and favours him amongst his own children but more his own son Hindley. ‘The young master Hindley has learnt to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend’ this point shows conflicting relationships between Hindley and his father. The words used here are very powerful and show that the negle ct that Hindley has been getting from his father has caused conflict. Also the use of the word ‘learnt’ indicates that the change was gradual and Mr. Earnshaw had love for his son more before than when Heathcliff came into the situation. Ironically due to the problems that Hindley has with his father, we learn that Hindley neglects his own son Hareton in the same way that he was neglected by his own father before. Also Hareton refers to his father as ‘devil daddy’ this emphasises that Hareton has had a bad upbringing and he will as well learn to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend just like Hindley did before him with his own father. In chapter 12 there is Also conflicting family problems when Isabelle runs off with Heathcliff ‘she has disowned me’ the dying love between the brother and sister is emphasised by the emotive language that is used in the quotation to describe it. Earlier on in the novel in chapter 7 they can be seen to be very close but now that Heathcliff is in the relationship has crumbled. This relates also to the previous point when Heathcliff has come into the