Wuthering Heights

A detailed Summary of Wuthering Heights

"They say that prison can make a person go crazy. Wells, I don't...cactus apple...believe it! I've been in this cell for most of my life and I'm perfectly fine. So what if I take over forty Vicadin pills a day? Or smoke three cartons a week? My mind is perfectly...rainbow blow dryer...fine. In fact I can prove it. See that little leprechaun over theres by the camel? Go ask him if I'm any different than a normal person. I'll bet...elephant corncakes... he'll say no!" So is this person psychotic? If so, can you blame him? After all, he has been living in a disgusting, confining prison for most of his life. It is not an entirely proven fact that the place in which that resides in affects his or her personality. However, it is a widely believed theory. Obviously Emily Bronte believed this theory. In her novel, Wuthering Heights, two girls: Catherine Earnshaw and Cathy Linton, grow up in wholly opposite locations: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, respectively. Both girls grow up in entirely different settings, and each possesses the same aura that their households did at the time that they grew up.

Catherine Earnshaw is a rich, conceited, and almost immature figure in the nov

el, and her family life confirms it. Catherine's father never fully loves his daughter because of her constant disobedience. At one point he scolds her severely: "Nay Cathy, I cannot love thee; thou'rt worse than thy brother. Go, say thy prayers, child, and ask God's pardon. I doubt thy mother and I must rue the day we ever reared thee!" Nelly notes that young Catherine is such a "wild, wicked slip" (37) and that she never seems as content as when she is being scolded. "She was never so happy as when we were all scolding her at the same time, and she defying us with her bold, saucy look, and her ready words" (46). Catherine's apparent arrogance all throughout her youth also contributes to her displeasing immaturity.

Cathy Linton, on the other hand, enjoys a very loving atmosphere at Thrushcross Grange. She is a fine, young lady with genteel mannerisms. Cathy demonstrates her love for her father when she devoted herself to nursing him during his illness. She not only lives with her father but she also stays at his side constantly while he is ill. She even consents to marry Linton, just for the sake of seeing her father. It is noticeable that she and her father, Edgar, are extremely fond of each other. Edgar is anxious to protect her from the twisted world of Wuthering Heights. Cathy never had any siblings, but she wished that she had one. She once said, "Pretty Li

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Approximate Word count = 936
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English