This document discusses the role of social class and ambiguity in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights. It focuses on how Heathcliff's low social status as an adopted child leads to the conflict and misery throughout the novel. The author argues that people should not mistreat others solely due to differences in social class. They provide three reasons to support this. First, the story's narrative depends on the social class of the characters. Second, class differences prevent characters from achieving their goals. Third, mistreatment based on class can perpetuate further abuse, as seen when Heathcliff torments Hindley in turn. The author concludes social status alone is not an excuse for poor treatment of others.

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Topic: two; what role does social class and class ambiguity play in wuthering heights? To what extent
is Heathcliff’s social position responsible for the misery and conflict so persistent in the book?
THE DISADVANTAGE OF LIVING IN A LOWER CLASS IN
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Wuthering Heights is one of the most popular Victorian novels, where social class and class ambiguity
are being essential for the story. I am writing this essay for my English class. In this essay, I am
supporting the statement “people shouldn’t treat other people badly solely based on the excuse of
having a higher social status” furthermore did I base the statement on the topic “what role does
social class and class ambiguity play in Wuthering Heights? To what extent is Heathcliff’s social
position responsible for the misery and conflict so persistent in the book?” In the following parts, I am
going to support my statement with three arguments.
Firstly, I didn’t choose the other topics because the other topics are in my opinion only relevant
because of the second topic. This is so because Nelly could only tell the story so as is written through
the fact she was born in a lower social class. The social pressure of not being able to marry the
person she loved came through class differences.
As for the second reason, I like this topic is the class difference that makes it difficult for the leading
character to accomplish his goals. I enjoy the topic because I find it fascinating to see how the social
position of their parents decide so much in their life. For example, just because Heathcliff is adopted,
Hindley has found his right to reduce Heathcliff’s status to stall boy after their father died. After that
happens, nobody protected Heathcliff because he was adopted and apparently less valuable or
interesting.
My third argument is that Heathcliff also made the same mistake as Hindley did by treating Hindley’s
son worse than Hindley did to him. If Heathcliff wasn’t treated badly, then he wouldn’t do such thing
to Hareton. This could be prevented if they would treat everyone equally, regardless of social status.
Furthermore, Heathcliff shouldn’t have come back to Wuthering’s Height because he uses his now
higher status to torture Hindley. What also made the social class clear. Is that since Heathcliff and
Catherine lived in a different class they never married?
“People shouldn’t treat other people badly solely based on the excuse of having a higher social
status”. I based this statement on the second topic that I was given. And I formulated three
arguments as to why my statement is fitting in my view of the book and topic. To continue, these
arguments are: as, first, the other topics are for me only relevant because of the second topic.
Secondly, I find, is class discrimination interesting. The third is that class discrimination can lead to
psychosis. This why “People shouldn’t treat other people badly solely based on the excuse of having a
higher social status”.