Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte1. What techniques are used in the characterization of Heathcliff? Effects?Heathcliff is associated with evil and darkness from the beginning of the novel. “I felt his black eyes retreat so suspiciously beneath his eyebrows.” (1) When Lockwood sees Heathcliff's garden (perhaps a symbol for Heathcliff) "the earth was hard with a black frost...the air made me shiver in every limb." (6) When we see Heathcliff when he is first brought into the Earnshaw household, he is immediately associated with evil, "though he is dark almost as if he were from the devil." (32) Mrs. Earnshaw gives orders to "wash him and let him sleep with the children." (32) The Earnshaws do not appear to consider Heathcliff human. When he is introduced to the family, the children discover that Mr. Earnshaw has lost their gifts to bring Heathcliff home. This leaves a bad taste in Hindley's mouth that won't go away. “Cathy, when she heard that the master had lost the whip while dealing with the stranger, showed her humor by smiling and spitting at that little thing.” (33) Nelly says: "Thus, from the first he excited bad feelings in the house; and by the death of Mrs. Earnshaw, which occurred less than two years later, the young master had learned to look upon his father as an oppressor rather than a friend, and Heathcliff as a usurper of his father's affections and privileges, and becomes embittered by brooding over these wounds (34) From the first time Heathcliff is introduced, he is associated with... middle of paper... I admired the utensils shining kitchen clocks, the polished clock, decorated with holly, the silver cups arranged on a tray ready to be filled with mulled wine for dinner; above all, the immaculate purity of my particular care: the well-degreased floor swept. "Outdoor settingThe two settings come to represent the characters who live in them, and the wild landscape of the moorland comes to represent the love between Catherine and Heathcliff Grange is located in a protected valley and is surrounded by a stone wall that gives a calm/civilized feeling. Wuthering Heights is on top of a hill and is exposed to all the elements of nature Thrushcross Grange is depicted as tender affection, but has been criticized for coming from the head rather than the heart. In Wuthering Heights, however, love is filled with true passion and a constant search for unity.