3. What elements of the supernatural are found in the story? Which characters are affected by these elements? How are they affected?
- Isabella couldn’t go into Catherine’s room because of Catherine’s ghost
- Lockwood -- the dream and the ghost at the window, grabs his hand; effect -- frightened. Also has an encounter at the end of the novel
- Drove Heathcliff mad and eventually killed him.He demands that Catherine haunt him so that she will always be with him.
- Ghosts: Catherine. Heathcliff goes crazy, stops eating, begs for her to come back. He is haunted by her and he turns into a ghost after he dies. He wants to be haunted, but not tortured. Goblin face. Avoids Hareton. Stops being abusive.
- Little boy/shepherd. terrified by the presence. sees Catherine and Heathcliff
- Lockwood saw the ghost of Catherine. He was in the room no one was allowed in. The atmosphere and stories he hears of the girl makes him think about the house and the people in it.
- Heathcliff pined after Catherine and wanted her to haunt him. Because he loved her and felt guilty for the way things ended with her before she died
- Catherine was a ghost sometimes and Heathcliff thought that Catherine was always with him so he dug her up from the ground.
- The tree is struck by lightning and is split in half. This represents Heathcliff’s decision. Symbolizes his inner destruction. Torment others around him?
- Should Heathcliff torment those around him as others did to him, or should he end the cycle?
- Heathcliff goes to Catherine’s grave and hears Catherine’s voice
- Joseph accused Catherine of witchcraft
- Heathcliff has an almost supernatural control over people. He treats everyone like crap and they still obey and love him, as evidenced by Hareton crying when Heathcliff died.
- Community reports seeing Catherine and Heathcliff’s apparitions upon the moor hills
5. The story is set in three locations – Wuthering Heights, Thrushcross Grange, and the moors. Identify the symbolic significance of the locations, and explain how that symbolism contributes to the understanding of the characters.
- moors: meeting place between Grange and Wuthering Heights; the neutral ground. Adventurous place. Leads to things. Both families go there when there is conflict. Separation. Peaceful. True selves are revealed. Symbolic that in life and death Catherine is between her two men. Represents Catherine and Heathcliff’s love...that it will end in the ground just like it started. moors represent childhood/familymoors are wild and untamed/rough. They represent Heathcliff and his rough character. moors -- meeting place where everything happens. Conflict starts and ends here. Edgar, Catherine, Heathcliff buried here, in the middle of both houses. Catherine has truly received both men by peacefully resting between not only their bodies but their houses.The moors are a freedom zone from prying eyes where class could be forgotten. Linton’s idea of heaven is lying in the moors.
- Grange: fancy, nicer, people living there are happier and enjoy living there. Expensive and elegant. Bright, open space, clean/polite. Lintons are welcoming but delicate. Sick easier, not built to withstand storms/conflict. Better education. Makes Linton the patient man he is. Opposite of Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff and Edgar are foils. Too comfortable. more prestigious, fancy, welcoming, proper. Characters are taken here to be taken care of. Symbolizes Catherine and Linton. Nice furniture and elegant, very advanced for 1802. Grange has servants.Thrushcross Grange -- soft and rich; represents Edgar and how much his wealth and status means to him. Grange is fancy; Linton’s are morally straight people. Dying. Family feel. Tight knit family relationships. Peaceful valley. High class.
- Wuthering Heights: windy there, tree fell on it, symbolizes Heathcliff’s feelings...it it the lesser of the two homes...stones and less nice. dark, gloomy, isolatWuthering -- worn place; people are more rough (Hindley) and meaned. Worn down and stands in storms. “withered”. Earnshaws are a messed up family. Heathcliff is a very dark personality. Rough edges. Windy. Lightning splitting the tree when Heathcliff leaves. Harsh in nature, similar to Heathcliff. Characters are secretive, always arguing and being rude. dark and rough, no comfort. Heathcliff secludes himself, just as the house is secluded. Heights are not welcoming. Savage nature. Archaic furniture. Heathcliff beats Hindley. Let children raise themselves. Hindley abuses Heathcliff. Heathcliff abuses Isabella and Cathy. Cold, barren, wood/stone, on secluded hill. Lack of freedom. Cathy and Isabella locked in. Hindley locks Heathcliff in the attic. Heathcliff can’t keep people around without locking them in. Represents Heathcliff because of furniture and rooms and structure (dark, depressing). Wuthering Heights is more of a dump. Heights: dilapidated, wild, and uncared for; represents how the love is absent in that. Hell. Dramatic. Slew of people all thrown together, don’t get along...stormy hilltop
10. In Wuthering Heights, certain parallel or recurring events prove to be significant. Describe the major similarities and differences in a sequence of parallel or recurring events in the novel and discuss the significance of these events.
- both Catherine’s marry the wrong person for status and not love
- Edgar, Linton, and Catherine all die of sickness
- Both Catherine’s thought Hareton/Heathcliff were too low and rough for them
- Catherine dies less than a year after marrying Edgar/Linton dies two months after marrying Cathy. This is huge, because they are mother/daughter...difference is that Cathy ends up with an opportunity to marry who she loves.
- Hindley/Heathcliff both loved their people, bitter after they died
- Heathcliff loses Catherine and father (figure)...he becomes an emotional mess
- Catherine chooses Edgar over Heathcliff, which is easier to do after Heathcliff leaves/Cathy chooses Linton over Hareton...both cause a lot of tension in the family
- Similarities: Both Catherines marry the wrong man. Both are forced (not compatible). Both took the advice from Nelly. Both choose people who are “soft”.
- Differences: Catherine never got to marry Heathcliff because she died, but Cathy married Hareton and lives happily.
- Heathcliff is thought to be gruff and uneducated because that’s what people thought of him. Let others define him. Heathcliff defined Hareton by surrounding him with the hateful attitudes and didn’t even give him a chance to learn. Hareton wanted to learn but Heathcliff gave up when the world was against him. Heathcliff felt bad for himself and wanted someone else to feel his pain. It shows the difference between attitude and character.
- Catherine choosing Edgar to marry who is not who she loves. Cathy chooses Linton for superficial reasons as well instead of who she loves. It shows that the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
- People continually rejected and judged. Heathcliff started as child rejected by his real parents. Mrs. Earnshaw wasn’t a fan, but Mr. Earnshaw loved him more than he loved his own son.
- The use of the same names shows parallels -- Catherine x 2; idea of history repeating itself. Both Catherines choose superficial relationships over passionate love. Catherine betrays, Cathy goes against nature without really knowing.
- Hindley’s wife dies in childbirth. just as Catherine does. Hindley stoops into a deep depression, and refuses to do anything but drink. Edgar is so depressed after Catherine dies and buried her in the backyard rather than at the church.
- Heathcliff tried to force Catherine to marry him, and he did the same to Linton and Catherine’s daughter.
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