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

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shmoop so one of the things that underscores the poignancy

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of doing your own thing and the prices you pay

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for that and so on is heathcliff big brother hindley

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coming back to town Talk to us about that is

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

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

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in trouble What kind of comes back with him And

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

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know not agree I mean just you think kind of

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

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really appreciated by his older brother half brother maybe hindley

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And he really just kind of family just starts to

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make his life miserable And we can kind of you

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

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monster issue of like creator and created was heathcliff innate

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ly bad like was he and ate lead The guy

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who he ends up being was like really any enormous

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jerk Or was he made that way because of how

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he was treated by can lean and you know some

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other boats in the book We really have to ask

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yourself that question But we because of whatever it is

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

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really sad lonely angry character And that anger then naturally

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

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lot of ways Who is hindley Earnshaw How does hindley

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is treatment of heathcliff affect the emotions in the story

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His heathcliff so bad character a result of nature nurture

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

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