Wuthering Heights and Macbeth
During today's time, there is destructive love caused by many different things. Upon reading the two pieces of literature Macbeth and Wuthering Heights you can see that they share a common theme with present day relationships. The theme of destructive love within relationships in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. These traits are shown by the characters are shown by the characters and represented by today’s society. In both pieces of literature, the relationships are in a power struggle. In the play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth takes over the relationship in order to force Macbeth into killing Duncan. In her Journal (un)sexing Lady Macbeth: Gender, …show more content…
While he is playing with her near Edgar’s family’s home, she was injured by Edgar’s family dog and she was taken in and returned to Wuthering Heights weeks later. Upon her return, she the first things she said to Heathcliff were: “why how very dirty and cross you look! And -- how funny and grim” (Bronte 53). Hearing her say this hurt his feeling only made him angry. Later while going to her he overhears her speaking to Isabella saying she will marry Edgar. This is what hurt him most, emotionally wounding him, he ran away to become something she would marry, as stated by David Galef “This is the most significant development of her character” meaning that she was basically a gold digger and did not want to be brought down in social class by …show more content…
The theme of destructive love in both kinds of literature concludes that love does not always stay happy for both sides and that failure is guaranteed to happen if the relationship gets too one-sided.
Works cited Allen, Janet. Holt McDougal Literature. Orlando, FL, Holt McDougal/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights with Connections. Austin, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000.
Galef, David. “Keeping One's Distance: Irony and Doubling in ‘Wuthering Heights.’” Vol. 24, no. 3, 1992, pp. 242–250., www.jstor.org/stable/29532870. Accessed 27 Apr. 2017.
Islam, Saiful Md. Nature of evil in Macbeth http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/AFJ/article/view/12940 Thomas, Catherine E. "(Un)Sexing Lady Macbeth: Gender, Power, and Visual Rhetoric in Her Graphic Afterlives." Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal, vol. 31, Jan. 2012, pp. 81-102. EBSCOhost,
During today's time, there is destructive love caused by many different things. Upon reading the two pieces of literature Macbeth and Wuthering Heights you can see that they share a common theme with present day relationships. The theme of destructive love within relationships in Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Bronte’s Wuthering Heights are presented through sexism, jealousy, and betrayal. These traits are shown by the characters are shown by the characters and represented by today’s society. In both pieces of literature, the relationships are in a power struggle. In the play Macbeth, Lady Macbeth takes over the relationship in order to force Macbeth into killing Duncan. In her Journal (un)sexing Lady Macbeth: Gender, …show more content…
While he is playing with her near Edgar’s family’s home, she was injured by Edgar’s family dog and she was taken in and returned to Wuthering Heights weeks later. Upon her return, she the first things she said to Heathcliff were: “why how very dirty and cross you look! And -- how funny and grim” (Bronte 53). Hearing her say this hurt his feeling only made him angry. Later while going to her he overhears her speaking to Isabella saying she will marry Edgar. This is what hurt him most, emotionally wounding him, he ran away to become something she would marry, as stated by David Galef “This is the most significant development of her character” meaning that she was basically a gold digger and did not want to be brought down in social class by …show more content…
The theme of destructive love in both kinds of literature concludes that love does not always stay happy for both sides and that failure is guaranteed to happen if the relationship gets too one-sided.
Works cited Allen, Janet. Holt McDougal Literature. Orlando, FL, Holt McDougal/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights with Connections. Austin, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2000.
Galef, David. “Keeping One's Distance: Irony and Doubling in ‘Wuthering Heights.’” Vol. 24, no. 3, 1992, pp. 242–250., www.jstor.org/stable/29532870. Accessed 27 Apr. 2017.
Islam, Saiful Md. Nature of evil in Macbeth http://www.banglajol.info/index.php/AFJ/article/view/12940 Thomas, Catherine E. "(Un)Sexing Lady Macbeth: Gender, Power, and Visual Rhetoric in Her Graphic Afterlives." Upstart Crow: A Shakespeare Journal, vol. 31, Jan. 2012, pp. 81-102. EBSCOhost,