Thursday, August 19, 2010

Chapters 3-8:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHT96fTIyic

Nelly Dean begins telling Mr. Lockwood of Heathcliff's history, starting off with when Mr. Earnshaw found him on the streets of Liverpool, and brought him home to Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff was a young gipsy boy, thought to be about 7 years old. Catherine and Hindley, Mr. Earnshaw's biological childeren are thought to be 6 and 12. The childeren all grow up together. Catherine and Heathcliff form an everlasting bond of love and friendship, and together the two wreak havoc on Wuthering Heights and all of its inhabitants. However when Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley becomes the master of the house. Hindley has never liked Heathcliff, he was always jelous because Mr. Earnshaw liked Heathcliff more. So when Hindley becomes the man of the house, he punishes Heathcliff by making his life aliving hell.
One day when Catherine and Heathcliff were playing out on the moors a series of events leads them to meet Edgar and Isabella Linton, two spoiled rich kids (their own age) who live down at Thrushcross Grange. Catherine becomes close friends with Edgar and Isabella, and throughout a course of five weeks she is transformed from a peevish, wild, outspoken girl, to an elegant, ill-tempered lady. Heathcliff does not like these changes in Catherine, and he becomes jelous of the time she spends with Edgar and Isabella.
Throughout these chapters you can see the themes of revenge and jelousy begin to form, Hindley seekd revenge on Heathcliff, and Heathcliff plots to someday make Hindley pay for his cruelty. And Heathcliff grows jelous of Edgar, fearing Catherine will choose Edgar over him. The themes of revenge, jelousy, love, and the darkside of human nature and the foundation for this story.

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