Essays on Hindley

World War II was bad for Europe. A comedian once said of the first World War that it would have been better for all concerned if the countries involved had simply stayed home and shot fifty thousand of their own people every week, and that sentiment also gives some idea of just how devastated Europe was after the war that followed the war to end all wars (Blackadder Goes Forth 1989). If anything that falls short of it; “unlike World War Onethe Second War—Hitler’s War—was a near-universal experience” (Judt 2005, p. 25). As many as thirty-six ...

Northanger Abbey does not seem to have as many dangerous relationships as Wuthering Heights. These could be because Austin does not seem to write her characters in same dark tone that Bronte does. Austin’s characters seem to better realize their own fallibilities. In Northanger Abbey the romantic relationships are between Catherine and Henry, Catherine and John, Isabella and James and Isabella and Frederick. While some of these relationships may be slightly troublesome none are near as toxic as the relationships in Wuthering Heights, especially the one between Catherine and Heathcliff. In Northanger Abbey, Catherine Morland meets and takes ...

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Gross domestic product (GDP) and Gross National Product (GNP) is the indicators of the general economic condition of a country. These indicators give a description of the general economic and financial welfare of the nation, because the higher the level of production means higher level of the country's well-being. The subject of the study of the GDP and GNP is economic units - residents, producing goods and services for the end-user over a certain period of time (Investopedia, 2003). The indicator of GDP and GNP are very important for the economy as a whole. They are used to describe ...

It has been said that a definition of insanity is the compulsion to repeat the same actions over and over again while expecting a different result. This is evident both on the institutional level and the individual level, whether one looks at attempts by the National Football League’s Dallas Cowboys to spend heavily on a handful of players while leaving many of their other position needs unmet, or at the inexplicable tendency of victims of domestic violence to keep going back to their abusers, often refusing to press charges until the absolute worst happens. An unwillingness to change can bring turmoil ...

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G. Tendayu Viki, Kristina Massey, and Barbara Masser Focus of the article The article by Viki, Massey, & Masser, (2005) showcases how paternalistic attitudes towards female offenders may influence people’s perception of the crime. The authors prove that benevolent sexism turns hostile, when the female offenders commit crimes that defy the gender stereotypes. This paper uses the example of Myra Hindley, a criminal, who along with her accomplice murdered children, made videos of the murders, and disposed the dead bodies. The crime committed by Ms. Hindley defied the gender stereotype (women as caregivers and mothers) and quite expectedly ...

Based on a novel, written by Emily Bronte entitled “Wuthering Heights”, it can be ascertained that indeed, the mistreatment of Heathcliff by both his Master and Catherine epitomizes his struggle to grow with the social latter class system. This is apparently true based on various reasons that can well be referenced from the novel. Heathcliff learns to classify or regard himself as a member of the lower class; he does not have any qualities that can be compared to those possessed by Grange. Despite the fact that Heathcliff was adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, his son Hindley mistreats him by leaving him ...

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Wuthering heights is a story written by Emily Bronte featuring a group of families living within and around the place called wuthering heights in the isolated moor country of England. The timeline of the story is written between 1801 and 1802. The main character of the story is Heathcliff since most of the events revolve around him. He is depicted as an orphaned swarthy boy picked from Liverpool by Mr. Earnshaw who is the owner of wuthering heights. The story is narrated by Nelly to Lockwood who is the new tenant of the Thrushcross Grange owned by Heathcliff. Out of curiosity ...

Trying hard to overcome the current financial difficulties, the European Union is preparing to launch a new stage of integration, which aims to develop a common economic policy and the creation of a federal economic government of the Eurozone countries. London, however, is not going to participate in the transfer of the relevant authority to the central structures of the Community. Moreover, the UK intends to withdraw from a number of common areas of activity of the European Union in order to strengthen the position of the national parliament. Theoretically, the kingdom wants to remain in a single economic zone of the EU, but ...

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Emily Bronte provided perhaps one of the vivid works of romantic desperation in the form of her novel Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights, being one of a kind due to the immediate death of Bronte shortly after release, features the story of the owner of two manor estates told by his housekeeper to his tenant, apparently intrigued by the mystery brought by the stormy countryside and the manor he is renting. Much of Wuthering Heights focused on events that happened within and between the two manors owned by the protagonist – Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, both separated yet nevertheless located within ...

Emily Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights contains numerous similarities to events and people in her life, but the novel is not autobiography. Instead, Brontë uses familiar events and characteristics of her own personality and that of family members to tell a story about intense love, marriage and death. The childhood activities of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, playing on the moors, parallel Brontë’s own childhood. Her unflattering depiction of religious fanaticism, as displayed by the character Joseph, reflects her own adult alienation from organized religion. The ongoing elements of illness and death function not just as plot devices to advance ...