In chapter 1 we are introduced to the narrator Mr.Lockwood who visits Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights who is leasing him Thrushcross Grange. He describes Heathcliff and the sitting room of the the Heights, and briefly has an altercation with the dogs before returning to the Grange.
Analysis
This chapter introduces the reader to the frame of the story: Lockwood will gradually discover the events which led to Heathcliff now about forty years old living all but alone in Wuthering Heights, almost completely separated from society. The casual violence and lack of concern for manners or consideration for other people which characterizes Heathcliff here is only a hint of the atmosphere of the whole novel, in which that violence is contrasted with more genteel and civilized ways of living.
- As mr Lockwood is the narrator and the novel is told in first person, we begin to adapt his perspective on how Heathcliff is as well as the appearance and mood of Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. Although as readers we can't rely hevily on the first narration as its told from one perspective and it can appear as bias.
- Wuthering heights is 'exposed in stormy weather' of 'grotesque carving lavished over the front'. It is depicted to be dark and cold, which reflects the darker side of life. Emily Bronte continues to describe the appeareance of Wuthering Heights by using the device:semantic field, of dark colours,'black' chairs, 'liver-coloured' pointers.
- Wuthering Heights conclusively symbolises anger, jealousy and hatred which can be depicted from the characters
- As the setting of Wuthering Heights has a stormy atmoshpere, we feel a sense of fear and terror which adds to the Gothic.
- Being primarly introduced to Heathcliff's 'black eyes', shows thats hes a reputation has been damaged which forboads the rest of the story
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