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Wuthering Heights (Gift of God: Heathcliff (Called so by Mr.Earnshaw)…

- - - - He is 'it' a thing.
        
        E.g: Little Catherine spits at the thing.
        Isabella asks 'what' she has married.
        
        Heathcliff is dark
        
        Invokes image of Christian darkness:Devil
        
        Name: Heathcliff
        
        First name and surname both Heathcliff-Therefore insider/outsider in Earnshaw family
        
        'Heath'-Barren
        'Heathen'-Primitive
        
        Cliff: Rugged and dangerous
        
        Parentage
        
        Maybe one parent African or Asian
        
        African/Asian-Darkrace/Orient Race
        
        Associated with mystery, darkness and impenetrableness by Europeans
  - - - Therefore views Heathcliff as God's gift
        but a product of evil of society
        
        Darwinian theory-Man has non-godly origins-used by Emily Bronte to challenge existent Christian beliefs
  - - - melancholic
        mysterious
        beautiful
        dammed
        brooding
        masochistic
        
        But Heathcliff is sadist
  - - - Heathcliff story of real loss of Catherine. No need to explain loss to others. Only need to take revenge.
    - - But Heathcliff warm towards Catherine, cold and calculated towards others
      - This attracts Isabella to him
        
        He subverts her ideas and expresses intense criticism at being pictured as a romantic hero.
  - - - He is from hell and destined to go to hell
        
        Associated with fire and burning: Burns because of his treatment, fire because of need for revenge.
- - - - Has manners, way of dressing etc
        
        All external qualities-that can be acquired
        
        Expected to be domestic and stay at home.