Wuthering Heights Writing Assignment

Wuthering Heights Writing Assignment

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02/15/16

9th period

Wuthering Heights Re-Teaching Chapters I-IX

1. The use of parentheses in “’Catherine Linton,’ it replied shiveringly (why did I think of Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times for Linton)…” indicates a reflection the narrator had after the dream was over. While he was dreaming, he could only think about the voice that said “twenty years. I’ve been a waif for twenty years!”, but later when he was awake and talked with Heathcliff, that’s “when I recollected the association of Heathcliff’s with Catherine’s name in the book…” and he reflected that there was a connection between Catherine –The ghost, and Heathcliff and how the last names Earnshaw and Linton were of the same woman.

1. The primary mood Brontë creates through the imagery of the first paragraph is morbid. Through the paragraph it is stated the movement of the wind blowing in the fir-bough and how, according to Lockwood, “it annoyed me so much that resolved to silence it, if possible”. “The intense horror of nightmare came over me” was Lockwood’s feelings after dreaming such a disturbed scenario that gave Brontë’s audience that morbid feeling that the imagery of this paragraph transmitted.

6. Catherine believes a separation from Heathcliff is incogitable. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” Cathy feels that she and Heathcliff were born to be together and “The universe would turn to a mighty stranger” if they are separated, and a life without him would be completely inconsiderate for her. Sometimes, love makes you feel that the worst thing that could happen is a separation between the two lovers.

7. The reader can infer is the effect of Heathcliff’s exiting when he does is that he remains unaware of Catherine’s true feelings for him. “He had listened till he heard Catherine say it would degrade her to marry him, and then he stayed for no further”. He left before she made her love confession, just when Cathy said “so he shall never know how I love him”. He didn’t stayed to hear that, and never knew Catherine’s feelings about him.

9. Nelly’s tone in the final paragraph shifts from forbearing to irascible. When Catherine told Nelly that she accepted Edgar’s proposal, she responded “You accepted him! Then what good it is discussing the matter? You have pledged your word, and cannot retract” showing her complete disagreement with the decision, but at the end, when Cathy declared her love for Heathcliff, she said “if I can make any sense of you nonsense, miss … it only goes to convince me that you are ignorant of the duties you undertake in marriage”. What started in only a forbidding