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I don't see this as a romance, I never have. To me, Heathcliff and Cathy, both, are extremely unsympathetic characters who engage in the antithesis of romance. They are selfish, destructive, and just plain mean.
The birds are reflection of this primary plot. They are not partners, they are adversaries that function out of spite. They resent one another even as they profess to love on another. This spite and resentment are what drive Heathcliff to kill the birds. If they had actually hooked up, then he'd certainly have been capable of doing the same to Cathy.
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What makes wuthering heights accessible to a modern audience?
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Why is Wuthering Heights such a boring book?
Most people don't consider it to be - maybe the language used makes it a bit difficult to understand and read, or maybe it's just not your type/genre of book.
Wuthering Heights according to feminist and marxist criticism?
A feminist critic would argue that most of Wuthering Heights if founded on the oppression that women in this era suffered. Catherine is an example of a character greatly exploited by the in built male ideologies present in her society. She is left to make a tireless decision between Edgar and Heatchliff, and in both their eyes she is a mere symbol of love.
Does Wuthering Heights have satire?
Yes, Emily Bronte pokes fun at Lockwood throughout the novel, through his character (he makes instant assumptions about situations and characters which prove to be wrong - Mrs Heathcliffe, Lockwood thinks she is Heathcliffe's wife when there is no possible way he could conceive this to be the case when she is far younger). The scene with the dogs where both Heathcliffe and Earnshaw laugh at him is another example. He makes out the situation to be a lot worse, making himself out to be a martyr when the dogs haven't harmed him "with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear"
Who owns the largest Tweety Bird collection?
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