"Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte

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"This study will examine the violence in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights to determine what thesis the author is suggesting about the nature and causes of violence.


The fundamental thesis with respect to the nature and causes of violence, insofar as it pertains to this novel, is that violence is generated by a passionate and obsessive love that two individuals have for each other. Certainly there are other factors at work in the novel --- the physical environment, the various psychoses and neuroses of other characters, even heredity --- but the author's focus on the passions of Heathcliff and Catherine makes it clear that she believes violence to be rooted especially in the almost inhuman, or superhuman, attraction that the two main characters have for each other. In short, they simply love each other too much for their own good or for the..."

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