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Thank you We sneak Weathering heights The role of violence

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shmoop everything about wuthering heights is is violent and we

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see a lot in the setting Everything about the setting

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is violent there's like stormy weather and everything is tumultuous

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on And if you can just look at the word

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choices viol sion's out but it's also you actually just

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a very violent in terms of how the characters treat

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each other first while there's dogs attacking everyone hair like

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right when they walk in the door hindley is very

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violent toward his siblings Heathcliff is very violent towards women

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very abusive and there's Also just a lot of sickness

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which i guess you could consider more like a natural

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violence Katherine gets sick and this is part of the

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gothic of the story where everything is like dark and

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gloomy and haunted And you know lightning striking is the

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same as you know a human striking another human So

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it kind of all goes together with the setting and

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the characters How is the setting used to convey violence

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Why is there so much violence in the novel For 00:01:14.669 --> [endTime] me Can't we all just get along

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