Prose -random

Some Critics argue that Heathcliff's actions are a result of his social standing and that this is the point Bronte was trying to make in her novel. Heathcliff “dark skinned gypsy”, therefore it would “degrade” Catherine to marry him.  

Arnold Kettle blames the conflict of the novel on class inequality saying, “He, the outcast slummy, turns to the lively, spirited, fearless girl who alone offers him human understanding and comradeship. And she, born into the world of Wuthering Heights, senses that to achieve a full humanity, to be true to herself as a human being, she must associate herself totally with him in his rebellion against the tyranny of the Earnshaws and all that tyranny involves.”.

Nestor argues that while the actions of men seem to be sadistic the actions of women are mostly masochistic and inwardly turning. This can definitely be seen in her revenge towards Heathcliff and Edgar as she kills herself to “break their hearts”. She says “Oh, I will die," she exclaimed, "since no one cares anything about me.” She dies because of her narcissism. (Polymorphous perversion of infant). Isabella , Catherine, Cathy and Linton all refuse food at some point in the novel.

Hysteria

A solely feminine disease in victorian england which was diagnosed when a female was acting outside conformity. Catherine’s diagnosis of, ‘brain fever’, represents this and is perhaps due to her abundance of emotion.

"My name was Isabella Linton": Coverture, Domestic Violence, and Mrs. Heathcliff's Narrative in Wuthering Heights Author(s): Judith E. Pike

In the 1851 the Eclectic Review called her, "one of the most silly and credulous girls that fancy ever painted,". THIS IS WRONG.

Names Isabella as a “character that has been far too long unnoticed by Brontë readers.” due to her escape from domestic violence.

Domestic violence- “Nelly has just scolded Isabella about her irreverent attitude toward her husband, to which Isabella responds: “you’ll set me down as really wicked—but you don’t know all, so don’t judge!” (Wuthering Heights, p. 182; emphasis added). While Brontë describes Heathcliff’s malevolence throughout the novel, the elision here of what “you don’t know all” signifies leaves open the possibility that Heathcliff’s abuse toward Isabella transgresses even the Victorian notions of marital misconduct”

Heathcliff admits to Nelly that, he has been careful…