• Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - Heathcliff, a protagonist or antagonist?

     

    Essays1 Literature

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Published: 01.12.1996.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë - Heathcliff, a protagonist or antagonist?', 1.
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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights may be perceived to be just another novel, waiting to be read by the average reader, sitting on some remote bookshelf. This narrow-mindedness will be out of the mind of the reader when he turns past the first page; this novel is anything but conventional. Some characters have more depth to us than many real-life people, and one such character is Heathcliff. Ravaged by the past and bent on avenging everyone who mistreated him (and their loved ones), he is called insane by many. That first impression would be true if the character was taken, placed alone,…

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