wuthering heights
In the novel "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, Catherine Earnshaw's immaturity is clearly seen throughout the novel and ultimately conducts her to her own death. We can trace her immature acts back to when to when she was just a little girl all throughout her short lived life. She is born in a rich, well to do solid family. Her dad Mr. Earnshaw was strict man; her mom Mrs. Earnshaw was a devoted, quite snobbish woman. She was conceited all throughout her youth, which is clearly a contributing factor to her immaturity and she shows how she likes and loves to be given excessive attention. This caused her problems all the way until she became adult. A very important aspect of Catherine is, of course, her personality. She can be described as conceited, mischievous, willful, "wild, wicked [...] she had the bonniest eye, and sweetest smile" (Bronte, 45). We can see the special traits and features that make her unique in her own very special way. As a little girl she shows us she has a very strong attitude and she is the type of girl that will react in a rather aggressive way when she doesn't get what she wants. She was is so used to always getting what she wants, that when the opposite happens she throws a tantrum. One of th
A critical point in her life is when she stays at Thrushcross Grange with the Lintons. This is such an important phase that her life can actually be divided in before the Lintons and after them "significantly, from this chance encounter spring all the troubles" (Barth,7315). In there she sees all the luxury and "class" that they have and she instantly drawn to them "Catherine is captivated-metaphorically and literally" (7315). She begins to see differences she never saw before. Difference in the way of dressing, acting and mainly differences between herself and Heathcliff class-wise, differences she never noticed before. Although her attitude towards Heathcliff is the same, she is now able to see the difference between the classes she sees that "because of his suspect origins, Heathcliff could never fit into the life of the Linton/Earnshaw families" (7314). Even though she e first examples of this was "when she learnt the master had lost her whip in attending the stranger, showed her humour by grinning and spitting at the stupid little thing" (41).Catherine is a strong young woman and she is defiant of authority since young age "she was never so happy as when we were all scolding, her at the same time, and she defying us with her bold, saucy look, and her ready words" (46). This, besides showing her as a mischievous child, it shows a characteristic strongly underlined in her; the need for attention. This is recurrent throughout her entire life at first she demanded her dad's attention, after Heathcli
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Approximate Word count = 1021
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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