Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Childhood is shown to be
a be a bitter experience in
Wuthering Heights
- Childhood is important
to plot and structure
- Nelly Dean's narrative insists on returning to when they were children.
- Children are focused upon
- Heathcliff
- foundling ---> son ----> resented
- revenge
- Rejected by Cathy
- Cathy I
- Death of Father
- inability to achieve
behavioural maturity
- becomes a double
character
- Loss of
soul mate
- Edgar and Isabella
- spoiled
- serve to exaggerate the
poor conditions at
Wuthering Heights.
- Isabella vs. Heathcliffe -
highlight the extent of his
damage.
- Unease created by the
inception of Heathcliff
- adheres to gothic
tradition - proper
hierarchy is disrupted.
- 18th century family values are disintegrated (patriarchal lineage)