Wuthering Heights And The Reader Comparison

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Comparative Essay Both the relationships of Cathy and Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights and Hanna and Michael in the Reader are strongly destructive and dependent, and there is inequality present in both novels. Love is shown as a force that crosses the boundaries of social class and status, yet there are fundamental differences in their relationships. In the first part in Wuthering Heights, Mr. Lockwood, a tenant in Heathcliff’s property asks Nelly the housekeeper about Heathcliff. Heathcliff is introduced as an orphan Mr. Earnshaw adopted, whom Catherine loves and her brother Hindley is jealous of. After Mr. Earnshaw’s death, Hindley abases and abuses him. Catherine and Heathcliff grow up running wild in the moors, oblivious to everything. Until the day they trespass into Thrushcross Grange, the well-classed Lintons, when the Lintons took Catherine in after she was injured and rejected Heathcliff. Catherine became more ladylike, with Edgar and Isabella Linton as playmates. Catherine was torn between choosing Heathcliff, whom she had spiritual connection with, and Edgar, who could fulfill her social ambitions. She chose Edgar, in the end. Heathcliff overheard Catherine saying she would never marry him, and ran away. He returned to Wuthering Heights for revenge after Catherine was married, having gained a mysterious fortune. He married Isabella to place himself an heir of Thrushcross Grange. This made Catherine being seriously ill with jealousy and died giving birth to Cathy junior. In part one of The Reader, Michael Berg was a hepatitis-struck teen and Hanna came into the story as a woman assisting him home. Months later when he came back to thank her, he became attracted to her and they began an erotic affair, despite their age difference. Hanna asked Michael to read aloud to him. Also, whenever he and Hanna had fights, he would always surrender, apologize and

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