ShmoopTube

Where Monty Python meets your 10th grade teacher.

Search Thousands of Shmoop Videos

Wuthering Heights: Hindley's Return 1028 Views


Share It!


Description:


Transcript

00:00

Thank you We sneak Weathering heights hinde li's return allah

00:07

shmoop so one of the things that underscores the poignancy

00:13

of doing your own thing and the prices you pay

00:15

for that and so on is heathcliff big brother hindley

00:20

coming back to town Talk to us about that is

00:23

a catalyst for setting these emotions off He he's an

00:28

orphan let's start with that He gets adopted by mr

00:31

in trouble What kind of comes back with him And

00:33

and i'm in being an orphan in those days you

00:36

know not agree I mean just you think kind of

00:40

dickens like all over every yeah So uh he's not

00:47

really appreciated by his older brother half brother maybe hindley

00:52

And he really just kind of family just starts to

00:55

make his life miserable And we can kind of you

00:58

know relate this to the whole like frankenstein and frankenstein's

01:01

monster issue of like creator and created was heathcliff innate

01:06

ly bad like was he and ate lead The guy

01:08

who he ends up being was like really any enormous

01:11

jerk Or was he made that way because of how

01:15

he was treated by can lean and you know some

01:18

other boats in the book We really have to ask

01:19

yourself that question But we because of whatever it is

01:22

whether it's partially innate nature nurture he grows into a

01:25

really sad lonely angry character And that anger then naturally

01:31

transforms himself into violence It's explosive and implosive in a

01:36

lot of ways Who is hindley Earnshaw How does hindley

01:42

is treatment of heathcliff affect the emotions in the story

01:47

His heathcliff so bad character a result of nature nurture

01:51

or both Yeah Weathering heights More like weathering lows What 00:02:01.75 --> [endTime] a downer

Up Next

The Importance of Being Earnest Summary
123039 Views

They say that honesty is the best policy, but Jack lies about his identity and still gets the girl. Does that mean we should all lie to get what we...

Related Videos

The Giver Summary
105893 Views

Ever wish you could remember everything that you ever studied? How about everything that everyone has ever studied? Yeah, pretty sure our brains ju...

Invisible Man (Ellison)
1818 Views

Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man is an American classic. Hope you're not expecting any exciting shower scenes though. It's not that kind of book.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
1256 Views

Do not go gentle into that good night. In fact, if it's past your curfew, don't go at all into that good night. You just stay in your good bed and...

Quotes: A fool's paradise
294 Views

Find out the meaning behind "a fool's paradise."