Ensayo De Wuthering Heights

In this essay I intend to explore the evilness throughout this wonderful Gothic Romance novel Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte, and also to explain how it determines the development of the characters through the events.

From the two first chapters of the novel, Emily Bronte involves the readers in that setting of evilness since it is displayed that awful dream that Lockwood had, inwhich the blood is running down, the blood of a child, and it is seen how he is contaminated by that environment of violence and cruelty, of force and malevolence. That dream is a foreshadowing of what is going to be told, of the events that happened in past times and still remain in that present time. Those incidents, which are going to be explained later, made and shaped the lives of theinhabitants of Wuthering Heights.

The start point of the conflicts is the introduction of Heathcliff in the Earnshaw´s family. The head of the family Mr. Earnshaw came from Liverpool with an orphan boy of dark aspect. That poor orphan child was adopted by him and presented to the family with the words “I was never so beaten with anything in my life; but you must e'en take it as a gift of God, thoughit´s as dark almost if it came from the devil” (page 42 WH). Since his beginning he was rejected by all those members that composed the family, “Mrs Earnshaw was ready to fling it out of doors” (43 WH) and she asked “how he could fashion to bring that gipsy brat into the house when they had their own bairns to feed and fend for?”(43 WH), the little children Catherine and Hindley “entirely refusedto have it in bed with them, or even in their room” (44 WH), and Nelly “had no more sense, so I put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it might be gone on the morrow” (44 WH). Even Nelly who is a sensible and caring character, she expresses her denial towards him with more utterances such as “nothing”, “non-sense”, “worthless trash”, and “I won´t hear it” (p. 51 the limits of vision). Themost impacting thing is that everyone refers to him with the pronoun “it”, so they do not consider him as a person, but just a thing. According to Elliot the referring of Mr. Earnshaw to the child as “it” “indicates an alien, perhaps a subhuman nature, a force, an object of fate” as he consider him “a gift of God” (4 The heath and the hearth). So he sees him as a good presence. On the other handthe child is depicted with terms such as gipsy, dark, “came from devil”, and he is who is going “to bring disorder into a previously well-organized family, disrupting family ties and forming a focus of extreme emotions” (192 the lunatic). With all of this, readers can see that the problematic character is going to be that child, Heathcliff, everything revolves around him and thus he carries outthe evil parts in the novel. According to Thormahlen “Heathcliff is a plausible emissary from the prince of darkness and of chaos, and like other agents of evil he has to rely in on well intentioned people for admission to Christian homes” and this is the motif why Heathcliff is sent to that house(192 the lunatic). This commentary is telling that Heathcliff is born with that evil part whichcharacterised him to make the suffering in others, but I disagree on that, he is just a person who has been lucky to find a good man to be with, but also unlucky of how his life is going to be developed. It does not matter if he was born with goodness or evilness, what matters is that his later malevolence has been shaped by his bad lived experiences, as one of them is his feeling of rejection from theother characters, being one of the key points. Thus Heathcliff creates a disorder, which stands on the psychological level for that dark energy, and it will become destructive if it cannot find an exit in the social order. (plagio?)

The two main characters who have a great influence in the development of Heathcliff are Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw. Intentionally or unintentionally both of...