Jean - Jacques Roussea
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- Created on: 10-03-19 18:01
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- John - Jacques Rousseau Context
- Increasing separation of man and nature
- Argument against
- Character of Heathcliff
- Wild, uncontrollableand animalistic
- "He gnashed at me, and foamed like a mad dog"
- Cathy and Heathcliff's relationship blossoms on the Moors
- Edgar and Cathy's relationship
- "It was not the thorn bending towards the honeysuckle ,but the honeysuckle embracing the thorn"
- Edgar is the honeysuckle - sweet and pleasant.
- Cathy is the thorn - prickly and dangerous?
- "It was not the thorn bending towards the honeysuckle ,but the honeysuckle embracing the thorn"
- Character of Heathcliff
- Arguments For
- Cathy becomes civilised after spending time away from Heathcliff and WH
- "Instead of a wild hatless savage...there lighted a very dignified person"
- Time without Heathcliff civilised her?
- "Instead of a wild hatless savage...there lighted a very dignified person"
- Heathcliff returning as a more presentable man after being away from WH and the Moors
- "his manner was even dignified: quite divested of roughness"
- Cathy becomes civilised after spending time away from Heathcliff and WH
- Argument against
- Increasing unhappiness and loss of virtue
- Arguments Against
- Cathy and Hareton relationship
- "I hear him trying to spell and read himself...it was extremely funny!"
- "And now, kiss me , for minding so well"
- Cathy and Hareton relationship
- Arguments Against
- Society imposing restraints on an individual
- Arguments For
- Arguments Against
- Frances is assumed to be of a lower class, and yet Hindley marries her anyway
- "What she was or where she was from he never informed us "
- It was frowned upon to have relationships with someone of a lower class
- Cathy and Heathcliff have a wild and passionate relationship
- "I saw four distinct impressions left blue in the colourless skin"
- Frances is assumed to be of a lower class, and yet Hindley marries her anyway
- Humans having an innate sense of justice and virtue - leads them to principled action
- Arguments For
- Heathcliff wanting revenge on Hindley
- I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back...I hope he will not die before I do"
- Hindley killing himself after the death of Frances
- "He has spent the night drinking himself to death deliberately!"
- He didn't cope well after Frances' death
- Also, he treated Hareton very badly as a result of his grief and alcoholism
- Heathcliff wanting revenge on Hindley
- Arguments Against
- Heathcliff doesn't kill Hindley, even though he could have
- Nelly - she is present for all of the events happening at WH or TG, and mostly just observes them
- EG. Cathy's despair when Heathcliff leaves
- Hindley's violent nature towards Hareton and herself
- Heathcliff's depression and his death
- She sees all of this, but rarely takes effective principled action
- Arguments For
- Increasing separation of man and nature
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