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Heathcliff's childhood (chapters 4 to 17)
• Thirty years earlier, Wuthering Heights is occupied by Mr Earnshaw, with his son Hindley and his daughter Catherine. On a trip to Liverpool, Earnshaw encounters a homeless gypsy boy. He adopts the boy and names him Heathcliff. Hindley feels that Heathcliff has supplanted him in his father's affections and becomes bitterly jealous. Catherine and Heathcliff become friends and become close. Three years later, Earnshaw dies and Hindley becomes the master of Wuthering Heights. He returns to live there with his new wife, Frances. He allows Heathcliff to stay but only as a servant.
deserted
loved by Catherine deserted by Catherine
revenge revive of humanity
• Catherine Earnshaw: She is not a "good girl" as her father said. She is wild and sometimes irritable but sometimes gentle. The love between Catherine and Heathcliff is also not as others. They even fight with each other. She seems unsure whether she is — or wants to become — more like Heathcliff, or more like Edgar. It is as if she wants both, even perhaps cannot be fully herself without both, and yet society or human nature makes that impossible. Some critics have argued that her decision to marry Edgar Linton is allegorically a rejection of nature and a surrender to culture — a choice with fateful consequences for all the other characters. In my opinion, the vanity of Catherine makes her betried Heathcliff, which influences all people's fate later.
• Hindley dies six months after Catherine and Heathcliff thus finds himself master of Wuthering Heights becuase Hindley owns him money. Heathcliff teaches Hareton bad habits as revenge. And Isabella leaves Heathcliff and gives birth to a son, Linton.
Baidu Nhomakorabea
Characters
• Heathcliff • Catherine Earnshaw
• Heathcliff: Found, presumably orphaned, on the streets of Liverpool and taken to Wuthering Heights by Mr Earnshaw where he is reluctantly cared for by the family. He and Catherine grow close and their love is the central theme of the first volume. His revenge against the man she chooses to marry and its consequences are the central theme of the second volume. Heathcliff has been considered a Byronic hero, but critics have pointed out that he re-invents himself at various points, making his character hard to fit into any single "type."
Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë was an English novelist and poet, best remembered for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She died at the age of 30. She remains a mysterious figure and a challenge to biographers because information about her is sparse, due to her solitary and reclusive nature. She does not seem to have made any friends outside her family.
Opening (chapters 1 to 3)
• In 1801, Mr Lockwood, a wealthy man from the south of England, rents Thrushcross Grange in the north for peace. He visits his landlord, Mr Heathcliff and he finds an odd assemblage which arouses his curiosity.After Lockwood back to Thrushcross Grange, he asks the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, about the family at Wuthering Heights, and she tells him the tale.
• However, Catherine confesses to Nelly that she will marry Edgar Linton, who lives in Thrushcross Grange , although her love for Edgar is not comparable to her love for Heathcliff, whom she cannot marry because of his low social status and lack of education. Heathcliff overhears this and in despair runs away. • Later, Heathcliff returns, now a wealthy gentleman. Catherine has married Edgar. Edgar's sister, Isabella, soon falls in love with Heathcliff, who despises her but encourages the infatuation as a means of revenge. Upset, Catherine locks herself in her room, and begins to make herself ill again through spite and jealousy. Finally Heathcliff marries Isabella and Catherine dies after giving birth to her daughter, Cathy.
Wuthering Heights
Thrushcross Grange
Plot
• • • • Opening (chapters 1 to 3) Heathcliff's childhood (chapters 4 to 17) Heathcliff's maturity (chapters 18 to 31) Ending (chapters 32 to 34)
Ending (chapters 32 to 34)
• Hareton tries to be kind to Cathy, but she retreats and then withdraws from the world. But later they become close. While their friendship developed, Heathcliff began to act strangely and had visions of Catherine. He stopped eating and after four days was found dead in Catherine's old room. He was buried next to Catherine. • Hareton and Cathy plan to marry on New Year's Day.
Heathcliff's maturity (chapters 18 to 31)
• After twelve years, Catherine's daughter Cathy grows into a beautiful, high-spirited girl. Later Isabella dies, and her son Linton has to come back. When Linton returns, a weak and sickly boy, his father Heathcliff insists that he live at Wuthering Heights. • The following year, Heathcliff and Linton trick Cathy and Nelly into entering Wuthering Heights and forces Cathy and Linton into marriage. Several days after their marrige, Edgar dies, and Heathcliff become the master of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Soon after that, Linton dies.