FAMILY TREE

FAMILY TREE

Monday, May 24, 2010

CATHERINE

Catherine has different personalities when she’s with Heathcliff and Edgar Linton. She portrays a lady like behavior when she’s with Edgar but is wild, unkempt and loud when she’s with Heathcliff. As quoted from the book , “I am Heathcliff.” On a similar personality coincided as to Heathcliff’s. She has a strong personality as well, remaining at the best of her spirits on most occasions. Such as of chapter IX of wuthering heights, Catherine searches runaway Heathcliff fervently before lapsing into a heavy fever. Additionally, she always attempts to have things her way, doing whatever it takes, whether it be throwing a tantrum, refusing to partake any meal (chapter XI ) or physically abusing the ones around her( chapter VIII)She dies at childbirth.

Edgar Linton was borne with a silver spoon in his mouth and was raised as a fine gentleman. However, he is too soft-hearted and often gives into Catherine’s demands. In chapter VIII, he was boxed in the ears by Catherine and leaves her house quickly in shock of her rampage behavior. In chapter XI, he openly admits his fear in confronting his love rival Heathcliff, who was once a subject of love of his wife. In both scenarios, it emphasizes on the point that Edgar has this sense of ‘hopelessness’ and weakness to do anything to stand as a man for his own personal rights.In addition to this, in chapter VIII, after hurriedly leaving the house of Catherine’s, he returns back to Catherine after peeking a gaze of her beautiful physique through her window where they both confess their love to one another; shows his ‘weakness’ of giving into Catherine’s demand.

In Chapter X, I quote

Catherine had seasons of gloom and silence, now and then: they were respected with sympathizing silence by her husband (Edgar Linton), who ascribed them to an alteration in her constitution, produced by her perilous illness, as she was never subject to depression of sprits before.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS Part 6

Wuthering heights Part 15

Lockwood


Lockwood


is the narrator of the novel. He is a gentleman from London, in distinct contrast to the other rural characters. He is not particularly sympathetic and tends to patronize his subjects.Mr. Lockwood holds a certain amount of pretentiousness, his views on Catherine Heathcliff, for example. Lockwood is clear in his belief that her life would be much better with him, while obviously her life at that time couldn't get much worse the emphasis on himself makes him seem like a very chauvinist character. Also, his attachment to Nelly Dean is based on what information he can drag out of her, he views her as nothing more than a gossip whom he can use to his own advantage and cares nothing for the sorrow she endured with the loss of so many people. Lockwood’s narration forms a frame around Nelly’s; he serves as an intermediary between Nelly and the reader. A somewhat vain and presumptuous gentleman, he deals very clumsily with the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. Lockwood comes from a more domesticated region of England, and he finds himself at a loss when he witnesses the strange household’s disregard for the social conventions that have always structured his world. As a narrator, his vanity and unfamiliarity with the story occasionally lead him to misunderstand events.