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

Similarities in The treasure in the Crown and Wuthering senior high He stood a stranger in this breathing world, An erring smack from another hurld... What had he been? What was he, thus stranger? Who walked their world, his lineage all unknown? George Gordon, Lord Bryon (1788-1824) This except of a poem from the Romantic period could be used to describe two characters from two various works of different time periods. Heathcliff - the dark-skinned 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 salute a lower class of dark-skinned people that are separate by the times and societies that they live in. Each fights outward prejudices as hale as their own inner battles to determine self-worth. Heathcliff and Hari find themselves in cognise with white-skinned women who represent the superior class in...