Edgar Linton - Description

Description

Edgar Linton is regarded as the complete opposite of his wife, Catherine Earnshaw, and her foster brother and true love, Heathcliff. With his fair long hair, his pale skin and his blue eyes, Edgar seems to have stumbled out of a Jane Austen novel for the quiet, gentle life he at first leads at Thrushcross Grange, a home of peace and goodwill until Heathcliff's presence fills it. Edgar is said to be constitutionally weak, as is the case throughout the Linton family, and is very distressed when he realizes that he cannot match the fire and passion of his wayward wife and her soul mate. He loves Catherine dearly, despite her passion for Heathcliff, and adores their daughter, named after his wife. When Isabella, his sister, marries Heathcliff, he insists that he will no longer have a relationship with her, and that they are brother and sister only in name. His portrait, perfectly and accurately resembling him, is thus described:

Mrs. Dean raised the candle, and I discerned a soft-featured face, exceedingly resembling the young lady at the Heights, but more pensive and amiable in expression. It formed a sweet picture. The long light hair curled slightly on the temples; the eyes were large and serious; the figure almost too graceful.

Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights
Characters
  • Heathcliff
  • Catherine Earnshaw
  • Edgar Linton
  • Isabella Linton
  • Hindley Earnshaw
  • Nelly Dean
  • Frances Earnshaw
  • Hareton Earnshaw
  • Catherine Linton
  • Linton Heathcliff
  • Joseph
  • Lockwood
  • Minor characters
Adaptations
  • 1920 film
  • 1939 film
  • 1953 BBC film
  • 1954 film
  • 1962 television adaptation
  • Dil Diya Dard Liya (1966)
  • 1967 television serial
  • 1970 film
  • 1978 television serial
  • 1985 film
  • 1988 film
  • Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992)
  • 1998 film
  • 2003 film
  • 2009 television serial
  • 2011 film
Stage
  • 1958 Floyd opera
  • 1966 Herrmann opera

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