How To Write A Dialectical Journal For Wuthering Heights

Nelly recalls Heathcliff’s description, "'We crept through a broken hedge, groped our way up the path, and planted ourselves on a flower plot under the drawing-room window. The light came from thence....it was beautiful- a splendid place carpeted with crimson and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold, a shower of glass-drops hanging in silver chains from the center and shimmering with little soft tapers.'" (47). The light shines on the calm area of Thrushcross Grange, setting up a completely different atmosphere from Wuthering Heights and carries very different symbolic meaning, showing how the Lintons are foils fo Cathy and Heathcliff, as they are civilized. The Linton are raised in a very cultivated society, one that not allow room for the savageness of Wuthering Heights. After Heathcliff flees Wuthering Heights upon hearing Cathy say that although she loves Heathcliff, she must marry the more respectable Edgar Linton, a storm is brewing outside, “About midnight, while we still sat up, the storm came rattling over the Heights in full fury. There was a violent wind, as well as thunder, and either one or the other split a tree off at the corner of the building…”

3. Lockwood compares himself to Heathcliff in his hospitality and in his capacity within the subject of relationships. Lockwood also indirectly contrasts the environment’s suitability to the two

At this moment, my heart seems to beat harder and I felt goosebumps all over my body. This sensation was dreadful and I felt even worse on my arm, where she had grabbed me. I was still standing in the bedroom, watching Heathcliff tearing up the poor bed while crying in it. At that time, I had absolutely no idea of what to do. Comfort him? Run away from this haunted place? In all cases, sleeping was not a possibility. After Heathcliff had no tear left to cry, he stood up and left out the bedroom. I remain silent while packing all of my stuff in a hurry. I decided that I will not stay there any longer. If I remember correctly, there is another house not too far from this place, by chance, they will accept me for a night or two. Since Heathcliff

When Heathcliff returns three years later, his love for Catherine motivates him to enact revenge upon all those who separated him from her. Since he last saw Catherine, he has “fought through a bitter life”; he “struggled only for [her]” (Brontë 71). Nelly observes a “half-civilized ferocity” in Heathcliff’s brows (Brontë 70); she views him as “an evil beast…waiting his time to spring and destroy” (Brontë 79). Heathcliff’s obsessive love for Catherine becomes a menacing threat. Heathcliff reproaches Catherine because she “treated [him]

   "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff" (81)" These words, uttered by Catherine, in the novel Wuthering Heights are for me the starting point in my investigation into the themes of love and obsession in the novel. Catherine has just told her housekeeper that she has made up her mind to marry Edgar Linton, although she is well aware that her love for him is bound to change as time passes. That she is obsessed by her love for Heathcliff she confirms in the above quotation and by saying that she will never, ever be separated from him. Why does she not marry him then? Well, she has

There was an eerie silence as she walked down the corridor. Click clack click clack.. The sound of her footsteps echoed off the walls. She glanced out the window, the clouds were rolling in a deep black front. The trees were contorting from the wind, flashes of lightning illuminate her face. Those soft, caring eyes, and gorgeous brown hair. The epitome of perfection. She quickly pulls herself away from the window, she can't be distracted. Not now. Patient 13 had escaped and she was the only staff in. tick.. tick.. tick.. tick.. Time was running out, she had to find the patient before the storm hit. She had checked every floor except for this one; floor #2. Something seemed different about this floor to her. There was something off. There was no humming of equipment like there would normally be. Just silence. Rooms 210-224 were empty and untouched. All the sheets

1. Sue went red with embarrassment (EMBARRASS) 2. I was late because I unestimated how much time I needed. (ESTIMATE) 3. In addition to doing the cleaning, I make the coffee.

One of the most crucial books to appear throughout the novel is Catherine Earnshaw’s ‘diary’. The diary is introduced to the reader inside Lockwood’s narration within the opening chapters, suggesting its importance to the entire narrative. David Lodge argues that one “should make his spade a spade before he makes it a symbol” [1] so on a literal level; the ramblings of Catherine are her expressing herself throughout her disrupted childhood. Contextually, it shows the expense of paper in the late 1700s, suggesting that Catherine would only have had the spaces in the “dingy” volumes [2]. This contrasts with the availability of paper to young Cathy throughout her period of courting with Linton “a mass of correspondence—daily almost”, and this references the hierarchy of social class as young Cathy, who is of better breeding than her mother, has higher access to luxuries. From a different perspective, Catherine’s palimpsest formed from

This parallel is ironic – the reader is not inclined to view Lockwood as a ‘hero’, yet the novel is seemingly framing him as if he invariably is one. This distorts our reading of the novel, as Lockwood’s cowardice and pomposity renders this reading nigh improbable. Therefore, the ironies present in this implied portrayal of our central narrator tends to bend our reading of Wuthering Heights more as a pastiche, rather than a direct addition to the pantheon of Gothic fiction. This is supported when other characters from the novel are scrutinised: the younger Cathy is interpreted by Lockwood as the typically virginal maid present in Gothic literature, and – adhering to the literary tradition – feels compelled to rescue her from the Heights and

Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow!” (Bronte 1). Lockwood quickly misjudges Heathcliff on their first encounter, as a reader we understand and know that Heathcliff is definitely not what a true “capital fellow” is supposed to represent. In the article, Allan R. Brink proposes that, “Lockwood rattles off one misinterpretation after another about the identity of the people in Wuthering Heights and their (the presumes) normal relations with each other” (Brick 81), Lockwood has a difficult time understanding the issues within Wuthering Heights, he is perplexed by the fact that the cannot comprehend the assumptions of Heathcliff as a character. Notwithstanding, It is understandable having the fact that he in fact isn't from around the area, and is just trying to meet this landowner, and happens to run into interesting events that lead him to want to know a little background

Looking back on the years Nelly spent at Wuthering Heights, she can’t help but feel a sense of irritation. Catherine’s presence here would always seep through the walls like the sticky bitter sap of the moor trees, that clings to your skin even after doused in water. In many ways Catherine was divided and conflicted, unruly and tamed, and headstrong and loving. As Nelly reflects on her opinion of Catherine she realizes that Edgar, Catherine’s husband, might have held a slightly different view.

In Emily's Brontë’s novel Wuthering Heights, she asserts that love, while it is usually described as unchanging and everlasting, has to come from a place of understanding and a willingness to change, otherwise it becomes destructive and toxic. The story begins when Mr. Lockwood asks Nelly, a maid who worked at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, to tell him the story of Heathcliff, the landowner. She tells him that Mr. Earnshaw, the landowner before Heathcliff, brought Heathcliff into his home, where Mr. Earnshaw’s son, Hindley, bullied him, and Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine, grew closer to him. Catherine spent a few weeks at Thrushcross Grange where she met the Linton family, became a proper young lady, and married Edgar Linton.

A love that is lost and then regained. Separation and union, but Healthcliff never gives up on his love for Catherine. A yet tragic story that can explain by this character is full of bitterness and vein. That is how Mr. Lockwood comes to pity and understand Heathcliff. By hearing this love story that Aservant who has lived through it to see it all happen tell him. Thou this foreigner (Mr.Lockwood) is yet alike with Heathcliff because they both share the aspect of not being true people of Wuthering Heights; for they have both come from other city. But in this story we are taking beyond this to understand why Heathcliff is such way.

Lockwood, a young London gentleman, is a newcomer to the Yorkshire Moors, Wuthering Heights. The novel opens after he has just returned from a visit with his landlord and neighbour, Mr. Heathcliff about Thrushcross Grange. One of my first impressions of the character after reading the

It is the opinion of this essay that the character of Heathcliff evolves a lot more than the character of Catherine. When we first meet Heathcliff, he was found on the streets of Liverpool by Catherine’s father who then adopts him into the family as one of his own. This would have been a dramatic change for Heathcliff. Then after experiencing this quality of life until the death of the father he is then cast into the role of a servant/labourer by Catherine’s brother who despises him. Finally, when Heathcliff hears part of the conversation between Catherine and Nelly, he hears Catherine plans to marry Edgar Linton as she could never marry Heathcliff. “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now”. (82) It is here Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights and returns three years later, a gentleman of means and of polite demeanour, not what you would expect from him. Here we can bring back the point that one’s environment dramatically affects one’s behaviour. Like Catherine, Heathcliff defies social norms expected of his gender. After he returns back from travelling having acquired great wealth and on the surface seems a changed man, he would be accepted into middle class society as he displays the characteristics expected of him. It is well described in the book to enforce the dramatic change in him for readers to understand how far he has come from