Saturday, February 16, 2008

wuthering heights

Hindley and his wife come back to Wuthering Heights for Mr. Earnshaw's funeral and he is determine to get revenge on Heathcliff. He declares that Heathclif will no longer be able to get an education and will work as a common laborer in the fields. Luckily, Heathcliff escaped Hindely and went to play with Catherine. This starts to make me dis-like HIndley. However, after reading the next part, I turn to hate him. One day when Cahterine and Heathclif were off playing, Hindley orderd that all the doors be bolted and the children were not allowed inside. The fact that he could be so mean to children really aggrivates me. Later, that day Healthcliff tells Nelly about how he and Catherine were playing and she was bitten by the Linton's dog. Mr. Linton informs Hindley of this and Heathcliff is forbid to see Catherine. I don't understand why Hindley is so mean to Heathcliff.
Catherine spends many weeks recovering from her bite at the Lintons house called the Grange. There she learns how to be a lady. She is tought proper manners and how to dress. When she comes back to Wuthering Heights at Christmas time, Heathcliff is only allowed to greet her like the other servants and when he does, she says to him, "If you wash your face and brush your hair, it will be alright: but your so dirty!" This upsets Heathcliff very much and he storms away. Reading this i start to develop and little dis-like for the Linton's. Its as if they turned Cathrine against Heathcliff. After being shot-down by Cathrine, Heathclidd vows to Nelly that he will get revenge on Hindley.
The novel skips ahead to the summer of 1778. After Frances dies from child brith, Hindley tells Nelly to raise the baby; he had no intrest in it and became an alcoholic from being depressed about Frances' death. Cathrine and Edgar Linton have been spending more time with eachother and when she is with him she acts like a proper lady. However when she is with Heathcliff, she acts her normal self. Cathrine seeks out Nelly in the kitchen privatly. She tells her that Edgar asked her to marry him and she had accepted. however, she didn't feel she could do that becasue Hindely had degrated him. Heathcliff hears this and storms away in a fit of rage. He leaves before he can hear Cathrine say, "Heathcliff...shall never know how i love him...he;s more myself than I am...Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." This clearly is a foreshadowing of whats to come concerning this love triangle. Cathrine will begin to battle with what is acceptable in society and what she really wants.
That night Heathcliff leaves Wuthering Heights. Cathrine spends the night in the rain sobbing and searching for him. She catches a fever and almost dies but is taken to The Grange and recovers. Three years later Edgar and Cathrine marry. Nelly transfers to the Grange so she can now sever Cathrine and her Husbend.
These chapters really allow the reader to connect and develop feelings towards the chatacters. I have really felt for heathcliff and im rooting for him and Cathrine to be together in the end.

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