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ENG330
MARY XINARI
ASSIGNMENT

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Whereas
“Wuthering Heights” has a dark atmosphere describing how destructive love can be,
“Pride and Prejudice” is lighter and can be considered as a parody of society at the
time
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Darcy not only because the two novels are different in style but
because these two men correspond to two different descriptions of how men should be
and behave according to 19th century standards
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Whereas Edgar is “handsome, and young, and cheerful and
rich”, Heathcliff corresponds to a different characterization, according to which
traditional romance novel heroes “appear dangerous brooding and cold at first only
later to emerge as fiercely devoted and loving” (www
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Although a not very easy character to confine in characterizations, Heathcliff’s
behavior towards the people who have hurt him and those who surround them is
terrible
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Our expectations are never
fully fulfilled
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The difference Isabelle undergoes during the first days of her marriage is
shocking
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In addition he also causes great harm to the second generation whose lives are
stigmatized by his behavior
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Neglected and uneducated,
Hareton who according to Nelly should have been “the first gentleman in the
neighborhood, was reduced to a state of complete dependence on his father’s
inveterate enemy”
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He plans to
marry him off with Cathy in order to become the owner of Thrushcross Grange after
his son’s death
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Lastly, young Cathy is forced to marry Linton even though she claims to love
him
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Moreover she is left alone to “act
the nurse” to Linton who died shortly after their marriage
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Heathcliff is
therefore shown to be a malevolent character determined to harm those who harmed
him
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For reasons Nelly cannot account upon, Heathcliff changes while hinting
that his end is near
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The reader cannot however be sure what his
reasons are behind this decision since Heathcliff is a character refusing to be
understood by the readers
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Earnshaw from Liverpool to be raised among the
other children, Heathcliff’s social standing is very different from Mr
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Being
an outsider he is mistreated not only because of his background but also because of
his looks
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His gypsy-like appearance prevents him from being accepted in society from early on
as all attempts to describe him are related to dark colors and the devil
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After many years of absence he
returns as a wealthy man with no explanations as to how he got the money
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He does that however not for financial purposes but out of
revenge
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In Austen’s novel “what a young man ought
to be… sensible, good humored, lively” and have a “perfect good breeding”
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This comes shortly after the
party where he refuses to dance with Elizabeth since she is not “handsome enough to
tempt me”
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What most readers fail to notice about Darcy adopting Elizabeth’s point of view
is that he is not like that when among his friends
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This is demonstrated from his conversation with Bingley at the
party when Darcy explains the reason he doesn’t want to dance “unless I am
particularly acquainted with my partner”
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Later on at a turning point in the novel the reader is introduced to Pemberley,
Darcy’s estate which is situated in the middle of the novel both literally and
figuratively as a geographic symbol of the man who owns it
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Lucas “His pride does not offend me so much as pride often
does because there is an excuse for it” meaning of course his wealth
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The house’s description “large, handsome, stone
building, standing well on rising ground” can apply to Darcy just as well
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However solid Darcy is, the stream in front of the house reveals
more about his character “a stream of some natural importance… without any
artificial appearance…neither formal, nor falsely adorned”
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com “Darcy possesses a “natural importance” that is “swelled” by his

arrogance, but which coexists with genuine honesty and lack of “artificial
appearance
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On one hand
they are natural and fluid but on the other hand Darcy tried to impose something
artificial on them, control so as not to be carried away by them
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Collins, who looks at the
theme of marriage from a more matter-of fact point of view
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Hence Darcy tries to impose
his “stone” character on the “stream of natural importance” with negative results since
Elizabeth turns him down
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During their conversations towards the end of the book where they
disclose and discuss their feelings for each other Darcy truly becomes “what a young
man ought to be”
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Both are
seen, explained and depicted by using landscape
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A house where he was brought to and which he was never
welcomed to, Heathcliff’s character is wuthering, windy and violent
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Heathcliff’s
revenge upon Linton can be said to be the ownership of the house from which Linton
always tried to make him feel as a stranger
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It is very important in the novel since
Elizabeth sees Pemberley- hence Darcy himself- with no prejudice for the first time in
the novel
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The two characters hence can be said not to fully embody their gender roles
according to society’s standards at least at the beginning of the novels
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Darcy on the other hand comes to fully embody his role towards the end of
the novel and even more through his continuous love confessions to Elizabeth
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Whereas in the “Wuthering Heights” Edgar who corresponds to those standards is
considered as the “wrong” choice for Catherine, in “Pride and Prejudice” Darcy is not
only wished by the reader to be with Elizabeth he is pre-destined to
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