Dracula & Wuthering Heights

Campbell indicates that the hero succeeds by being reborn, which can be taken either literally in some myths or as a metaphor for necessary change, for the reconciliation of opposing forces within the hero. The opposing forces of death and life are what are reconciled in the hero:

Everywhere, no matter what the sphere of interest (whether religious, political, or personal), the really creative acts are represented as those deriving from some sort of dying to the world; and what happens in the interval of the hero's nonentity, so that he comes back as one reborn, made great and filled with creative power, mankind is also unanimous in declaring (Campbell 35-36).

The action of the hero has as its effect the revivification of the world through the nurturing act of the hero in reconciling the opposing forces:

The effect of the successful adventure of the hero is the unlocking and release again of the flow of life into the body of the world. The miracle of this flow may be represented in

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at determines the course of the rest of his life, though in another sense that course is always set by his status as an outsider, a status he has from the moment he is brought into the household. The structure of the novel emphasizes the later Heathcliff. We first meet him when he is deep in the throes of his hatred and living at Wuthering Heights, a man scorned by his neighbors and feared by his servants. We see Heathcliff first through the eyes of Lockwood, a visitor to the region who uncovers the story and reveals it to the reader as Mrs. Dean tells it to him. Catherine is presented as a willful and arrogant girl who is happy only as long as no one contradicts her. Her marriage seems happy until Heathcliff returns, but she is never as admirable as Heathcliff's love for her might indicate she should be. As a child, Heathcliff wants only to shine in her eyes and to be accepted. As an adult, Heathcliff no longer seeks acceptance and instead seems to revel in his status as outsider. He is shunned and feared and does whatever he can to see that this continues. He seems to use his status as outsider to punish himself further, as if this will feed his hatred and make his revenge more possible. Yet, there is some sense of re
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