The Characters of Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights :: Wuthering Heights Essays

The Characters of Wuthering Heights  At first glance, Wuthering Height shows us encroach between a landlord, Heathcliff, and Mr. Lockwood. Heathcliff, one of the novels main characters, is portrayed as an uncompromising, sadistic bully, and produces a desire in Lockwoods character to find out more about his sometime(prenominal). Bronte uses Lockwoods character to pull in her main narrator, Nelly Dean. Nelly was a first-hand witness to Heathcliffs story and so proceeds to relate the history, as she remembers it, to Lockwood. It appears very soon, afterward the start of the story, that Nelly Dean is the protagonist. She appears more than happy to stir the conflict, which goes a farseeing way in keeping the story interesting and moving flop along. Wuthering Heights is set in the remote moors of Yorkshire (680), on that bleak hill-top where the reason was hard with a black frost (686). Almost all the characters in this story have a very frosty, antagonistic side to them and Nelly introduces us to Catherine and Hindley, when they were children, on the eve of Heathcliffs entry into the family. Nelly appears to make this story-telling as straightforward as possible, but her feelings for Heathcliff are not disguisable.When she made the step from playmate to the childrens nursemaid during the measles episode, her feelings toward Hindley and Catherine hardened and she softened so a good deal toward Heathcliff that Hindley lost his get ally. Heathcliff was the quietest child that ever nurse watched over. The difference between him and the others forced me to be less partial. Cathy and her brother harassed me terribly, he was a uncomplaining as a lamb... (702). Nelly developed alternate feelings for Catherine she put us all past our patience fifty times and oftener in a day. She was much too fond of Heathcliff. In play she liked, exceedingly to act the undersized mistress...but I would not bear slapping and ordering and so I allow her know (704). The clas s distinction, after the measles, became a clear, hard line Nelly, on the servant side with Joseph, and Catherine and Hindley on the side of the owners of servants. This further hastened Nellys spiteful feelings toward Catherine when Mr. Earnshaw died. Hindley came mansion with a new bride, and Nelly was physically installed in the servants quarters and Heathcliff was installed with the animals in the stables. In her story up to now Nelly has portrayed herself as a touch member of the family that has finally been relegated to where she knew she would end up anyway, a servant.