Comparing The Jewel in the Crown and Wuthering Heights Essay -- compar

Similarities in The Jewel in the prime and Wuthering high gear He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring spirit from another hurld... What had he been? What was he, thus unkn avow? Who walked their world, his lineage all unknown? George Gordon, Lord Bryon (1788-1824) This moreover of a poem from the Romantic period could be used to define two characters from two different works of different time periods. Heathcliff - the dyed gypsy with the manners of a gentleman(WH 5) is the villain/hero of Emily Brontes Wuthering Heights (1847) and Hari - the very English, Hindu-Indian, outcast/hero of Paul Scotts The Jewel in the Crown (1966) share many common characteristics. Both represent a trim class of dark-skinned people that are disadvantaged by the time and societies that they live in. Each fights outward prejudices as well as their own inner battles to determine self-worth. Heathcliff and Hari find themselves in love with white-skinned women who represent the ma ster copy class in...