Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë1. 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 dark eyes recede so suspiciously beneath their brows.” (1) When Lockwood sees Heathcliff's garden (perhaps a symbol for Heathcliff) "the earth was hard with black frost...the air made me shiver in all my limbs." (6) When we see Heathcliff when he is first introduced into the Earnshaw household, he is immediately associated with evil, "although he is also dark almost as if from the devil." (32) Mrs. Earnshaw gives the order to "wash him and let him sleep with the children." (32) The Earnshaws do not seem to regard Heathcliff as human. When he is introduced to the family, the children learn that Mr. Earnshaw lost their presents in order to bring Heathcliff home. This leaves a bad taste in Hindley's mouth that won't go away. “Cathy, when she learned that the master had lost his whip while dealing with the stranger, she showed humor by smiling and spitting on the little thing.” (33) Nelly said: “So from the beginning he sowed ill feeling in the house; and by the death of Mrs. Earnshaw, which occurred less than two years later, the young master had learned to regard his father as an oppressor rather than as an oppressor. as a friend, and Heathcliff as a usurper of his father's affections and privileges, and he became bitter as he brooded over these wounds. (34) From the first time Heathcliff is introduced, he is associated with...... middle of paper...... I admired the shiny kitchen utensils, the polished clock, adorned with holly, the silver mugs placed on a tray ready to be filled with hot beer for dinner; and above all, the unblemished purity of my particular care, the floor scrubbed and well swept." Exterior setting The two settings come to represent the characters who inhabit them, and the wild landscape of the moors comes to represent the love between Catherine. and Heathcliff. Thrushcross Grange sits in a protected valley and is surrounded by a stone wall which gives it a tranquil/civilized feeling. Wuthering Heights is on top of a hill and is exposed to all the elements of nature depicted. as tender affection, but has been criticized as coming from the head rather than the heart, however, in Wuthering Heights, love is filled with true passion and a constant search for unity..