Volume 1 Chapter 3: • zillah ‚ the housekeeper at Wuthering Heights ‚ shows Lockwood to a room at the top of the house which she confides ‚ is both secret and forbidden. • The room is covered with the name " Catherine " in different forms; Catherine Earnshaw‚ Catherine Linton and Catherine Heathcliff. • Lockwood has two dreams the second of which he encounters the ghost of Catherine. • Lockwood cries out to Catherine’s ghost‚ waking Heathcliff and causing him great distress. • Lockwood unknown to
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with the respectable Earnshaw family. After a his trip to Liverpool‚ old Mr. Earnshaw returns home to Wuthering Heights with “a dirty‚ ragged‚ black-haired child” named Heathcliff. As he grows older‚ Heathcliff‚ to the dismay of Hindley Earnshaw‚ usurps the affections of not only Hindley’s father‚ but also that of his younger sister Catherine. Thereafter‚ in part due to his jealous behavior‚ Hindley is sent away to school. Years later due to old Mr. Earnshaw’s death‚ a married
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beginning of the story Heathcliff is adopted by Earnshaw. Earnshaw eventually ends up loving Heathcliff more then his own blood‚ Hindley. Hindley feels alienated by his father and eventually begins to take it out on Heathcliff. Earnshaw sends Hindley off to college to get Hindley off Heathcliff’s back; soon after Earnshaw dies. This is when Hindley inherits Wuthering Heights and turns the tables on Heathcliff. Heathcliff begins to feel the alienation that Hindley felt and gets assigned all the terrible
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the influence of generation repetition and the destruction of love. Wuthering Heights demonstrates the repeating cycle of the second and third generation of the Earnshaws and Lintons. Through each generation‚ names are recycled as well as personalities. Cathy Linton is named after her beloved mother Catherine Earnshaw Linton. Under the supervision of her father‚ Edgar Linton‚ and later of Heathcliff‚ Cathy displays different traits of her mother. A main trait shared by both is
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orphan brought to live at Wuthering Heights by Mr. Earnshaw‚ Heathcliff falls into an intense‚ unbreakable love with Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter Catherine. After Mr. Earnshaw dies‚ his resentful son Hindley abuses Heathcliff and treats him as a servant. Because of her desire for social prominence‚ Catherine marries Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff. Heathcliff’s humiliation and misery prompt him to spend most of the rest of his life seeking revenge on Hindley‚ his beloved Catherine‚ and their respective children
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him; the young man is Hareton Earnshaw‚ and the girl is the widow of Heathcliff’s dead son. 7. The atmosphere in the kitchen is tense and unfriendly due to the bitter characters that inhabit it. Lockwood is not welcome at the house; Heathcliff tells him he should not have come in this weather and refuses him a guide to lead him back. Mrs. Heathcliff rejects Lockwood’s attempts at conversation‚ is inconsiderate‚ and threatens Joseph with witchcraft. Hareton Earnshaw is an equivocal character at
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Heathcliff’s evolution is one of extreme ups and downs. The novel begins with him being taken in as a street orphan by Mr. Earnshaw and in effect becoming his son. He lives a life of prominence in the household of Wuthering Heights and falls in love with Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter Catherine. Soon after the death of Mr. Earnshaw‚ Heathcliff is forced to work as a servant under Hindley. To compound the pain he feels from being forced back into the lower class of
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manor‚ Mr. Earnshaw‚ and his family. One day‚ Mr. Earnshaw goes to Liverpool and returns home with an orphan boy whom he will raise with his own children. At first‚ the Earnshaw childrena boy named Hindley and his younger sister Catherinedetest the dark-skinned Heathcliff. But Catherine quickly comes to love him‚ and the two soon grow inseparable‚ spending their days playing on the moors. After his wife’s death‚ Mr. Earnshaw grows to prefer Heathcliff to his own son‚ and when Hindley continues his
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darkest character in all of English literature‚ Heathcliff is indisputably brutal‚ cruel‚ malicious and outright ruthless. From the onset of his arrival at Wuthering Heights he begins to show spitefulness as he is seen blackmailing his older brother‚ Hindley‚ into giving him his desired horse. Also the description given of Heathcliff as a child describes him with dark features which could indicate what his character will develop into later on in the book. Yet despite the ghastly qualities of Heathcliff
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Mr. Earnshaw‚ and his family. His family consisted of himself‚ his wife‚ and their two children‚ their son Hindley‚ and his younger sister Catherine. Until one day Mr. Earnshaw decided to adopt a dark-skinned boy names Heathcliff. Catherine and Heathcliff grew very close as Hindley stays distant‚ this distance grows to hatred and jealousy after Mrs. Earnshaw passes away and Mr. Earnshaw grows favoritism for Heathcliff over Hindley; in result of Hindley’s cruelty to Heathcliff Mr. Earnshaw send Hindley
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