Wuthering Heights Chapter 26-31

Summary
Some months later, Edgar allows Cathy to meet Linton again (but not at Wuthering Heights). Nelly and Cathy end up going past the property line and encounter Linton looking worse than ever. He is feeble, pale, and unable to follow the conversation. Something is up – Linton is very worried about what Heathcliff thinks of his behavior toward Cathy. Linton falls asleep and Cathy is now eager to head back to the Grange. They take off just as Heathcliff arrives. With Edgar dying, Nelly and Cathy make their way onto the moor to see Linton. He is there but very frightened. Heathcliff arrives and persuades everyone to go into Wuthering Heights. Once there, he locks them in and says that they will remain prisoners until Cathy and Linton are married. Nelly is set free and returns to Thrushcross Grange after failing to free Cathy. Edgar is on the point of death.

She vows to get Cathy freed but, fortunately, the girl arrives after being let out by Linton. She spends a last few moments with her father before he dies and Heathcliff takes control of the Grange. Heathcliff arrives at Thrushcross Grange to escort Cathy to Wuthering Heights while Ellen must stay. While Cathy is preparing, he tells Ellen of how he has been tormented by Catherine for the last eighteen years. Heathcliff does not allow Linton any medical help and he dies. Later on, Hareton tries to start a friendship with Cathy but, because of his previous neglect, remains aloof. Deciding to stay no longer in Yorkshire, Lockwood rides to Wuthering Heights to tell Heathcliff. He sees Cathy and Hareton in argument over books and the latter's attempts to improve his education.

Analysis 

• Nelly's Influence: "Linton's letters bore few or no indications of his defective character" Nelly doesn't tell him about Linton's health because she doesn't want to upset Edgar as he is dying.
• Themes of violene and extreme behaviour:  if Linton doesn't get Cathy to marry him, Heathcliff will kill him// he slaps Cathy// vows to be her father-in-law by the morning (insanity)// "Had I been born where laws are less strict, and tastes less dainty, I should treat myself to a slow vivisection of those two, as an evening's amusement"
• Wuthering Heights becomes a prison

Wuthering Heights Chapter 18-25

Summary
Cathy grows up in isolation at Thrushcross Grange. With Isabella dying, Edgar travels to London to pick up Linton. While he is away, Cathy goes exploring on the moor However, like her mother, she yearns to explore the moors and a certain rock formation called Penistone Crags. Because you have to go past the Heights to get there, Edgar forbids it. and meets Hareton at Wuthering Heights. Angry at Cathy, Nelly tries to make the girl go home right away, but Cathy resists leaving the Heights. She thinks it's Hareton's house, but when she finds out it isn't, Cathy starts treating him like a servant. She's shocked when he starts cussing her out. Nelly angrily tells Cathy that the rude and rough young man she thought was a servant is her cousin, Hareton. Cathy refuses to accept that and insists that her father is going to London to get her cousin (Linton Heathcliff). Apparently she doesn't know you can have more than one cousin. Nelly observes the young man that Hareton has become – "a well-made, athletic youth, good-looking in features, and stout and healthy". Heathcliff has denied him any education, so between his uncle and Joseph he has grown up without manners or guidance of any sort.

When Edgar arrives back at Thrushcross Grange with Linton. Before the day is out, Joseph arrives with orders to take the child to Wuthering Heights immediately but Edgar puts him off until the morning. The next day, Ellen takes Linton up to Wuthering Heights. Although Heathcliff despises the child, he assures Ellen that he will look after him as he has plans for him. As Nelly leaves the Heights, she hears Linton crying out, begging not to be left behind. On her sixteenth birthday, Catherine goes with Ellen onto the moor and meets Heathcliff to takes her back to Wuthering Heights to meet Hareton. She is prohibited by her father from seeing either of them again but keeps up a clandestine relationship via mail. Ellen finds out and burns the letters, forcing Catherine to promise to end the relationship. A few months later, Catherine and Ellen are walking around the grounds when they encounter Heathcliff on the boundary road. He explains that Linton is ill and believes that Catherine deliberately stopped writing. Heathcliff notes that he will be away for a week and she could visit in the meantime. Reluctantly, Ellen agrees to accompany her to Wuthering Heights the next day. At Wuthering Heights, they find Linton who quarrels with Cathy. He feigns illness and she is fooled into sympathy for him. They return home where Ellen is confined to bed with illness for a few weeks. While there, Cathy continues to visit Linton. Ellen learns of Cathy's secret visits to Wuthering Heights to see Linton. The former reveals the information to Edgar who prohibits Cathy from visiting the Heights again (although he allows Linton to visit Thrushcross Grange). As Edgar begins to decline and fear for the future, he reconsiders his opposition to Linton and comes to believe that a marriage between him and Cathy may be the best option so that she will not be left without an inheritance.


Analysis 

• Cathy begins to pick up characteristics like her mother in this case exploring the moors. Bronte does this to show a modern version of Catherine and how things could of been if some circumstances were different
• Hareton: "a well-made, athletic youth, good-looking in features, and stout and healthy"
• Nelly and Lockwood discuss the possibility of Cathy falling in love with him
• Revenge: Heathcliff is getting worried, because to make his plan work, Cathy must marry Linton; that way he'll gets the Grange when his sickly son dies. So now he's in a race against Linton's death and Edgar's willingness to allow the marriage.

Wuthering Heights 16-17

Summary





That night little Catherine is born , two months premature, and her mother dies in childbirth. Edgar begins mourning. On top of the whole mess, he has no heir (girls don't count). Nelly goes out to the garden to break the news to Heathcliff, but he already knows. Still, he begs for all of the grisly details and, of course, wants to know if she mentioned him. Heathcliff doesn't want Catherine to rest in peace. He cannot live without her, and he cries out for her to haunt him. Heathcliff sneaks into the house to say one final goodbye to Catherine in her coffin. As a parting gesture, he replaces Edgar's hair in the locket around her neck with a piece of his own. Instead of being buried in a chapel or with the Linton family, Catherine's body is laid to rest outside, near the moor and peat mould, a decomposed vegetable matter that covers uncultivated land.




Nelly tends to the new baby while Edgar keeps to his room.Isabella shows up, having run all the way from Wuthering Heights in the snow. Nelly tends to Isabella's cuts and bruises. Isabella throws her wedding ring into the fire, though it is clear that she would go back to Heathcliff if he showed even the slightest interest in her.Isabella tells Nelly that she plans to escape from Heathcliff because 'He's not a human being'. Isabella takes over the narrative again, telling Nelly about Heathcliff's recent behavior. One night, Hindley locks Heathcliff out of the house and shows Isabella his gun again, resolving to murder Heathcliff. Isabella shouts out a warning to Heathcliff. Heathcliff bursts into the house and beats the living daylights out of Hindley. The next morning he looks a mess. He broods in the corner, paying no attention to Hindley or Isabella until she provokes him by talking about Catherine. He hurls a knife at her. Six months after Catherine's death, Hindley finally dies too. Going up there to arrange Hindley's funeral, Nelly witnesses two triumphs for Heathcliff, who announces to Hareton, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!'. In other words, Heathcliff plans to run Hareton into the ground by giving him the same treatment he (Heathcliff) received from Hindley. Heathcliff is now master of Wuthering Heights, which Hindley mortgaged to finance his gambling habit.




Analysis 

• Heathcliff doesn't want Catherine to rest in peace. He cannot live without her, and he cries out for her to haunt him. this just shows how obsessed he was with her
• Themes of Violence and Extreme behaviour: Isabella has cuts and tries to escape Wuthering Heights 
• Revenge: Abuses Hindley, Hurls a knife at Isabella 
• Isabella point of view-vital 

Wuthering Heights Chapter 10-15

Summary


Three years after Heathcliff's departure, six months after the marriage, Heathcliff arrives at Thrushcross Grange, now improved in physique and manner. He is staying with Hindley at Wuthering Heights and taking advantage of his alcoholism and gambling. Isabella falls in love with Heathcliff and is teased by Catherine. However, Hearing of her crush, Heathcliff describes the pleasure he would take in decorating her face with bruises. But the fact that she is her brother's heir is enticing to him. Nelly Dean walks to Wuthering Heights to see Hindley but she meets Hareton at the gate who has become coarse and foul-mouthed resulting him to be a pure product of his environment. Heathcliff goes to Thrushcross Grange and begins making the moves on Isabella. He tells Catherine that she has no right to object and that she has treated him just like a dog. Nothing will get in the way of revenge against all who have degraded him, though he assures Catherine, 'I seek no revenge on you'. Catherine later on gets sick from fever and delirium, leaving her in a confused state,which makes her recall her childhood – the oak-panelled bed, the wild adventures on the moors, and her love of Heathcliff. With everyone's mind on the current dilemma, they are oblivious that Isabella has eloped with Heathcliff.




Catherine's brain fever worsens, but under Edgar's close care, she recovers. Then she has a baby. Just to make matters even more perplexing for the reader, they name the baby Catherine. Meanwhile Isabella has sent a letter to Edgar announcing her marriage to Heathcliff. He doesn't reply. So she then sends a letter to Nelly announcing that she is living up at the Heights. She also has a few choice words about her new residence and her spouse. Isabella briefly takes over the narrative, as she tells Nelly in the letter that she basically thinks Heathcliff is the devil. The house is a dump and Hareton is a delinquent Joseph is still a ranting, cursing crank and Hindley is a ghost of his former self, having been worn down by his own issues and the vengeful abuse of his roommate/semi-brother Heathcliff. Hindley shows Isabella his gun and warns her to lock her bedroom door because he is planning to murder Heathcliff. Hindley's confessions reveal that he has lost a heap of money and is now in Heathcliff's debt. Heathcliff would kill him or kick him out, but he wants his money back.




Isabella spends the night sleeping in a chair in Hareton's room. Heathcliff comes looking for her in the middle of the night. He tells her Catherine is sick and that it is her brother's fault. Heathcliff also tells her that until he can get to Edgar, he will make Isabella suffer in his place.She closes the letter, and her narration, by begging Nelly to send help. Back to the narrative voice of Nelly. Edgar tells Nelly he will have nothing to do with Isabella now that she has married 'the villain'. Nelly decides to go up to the Heights herself to check on Isabella. Nelly tells Isabella that Edgar will not be contacting her. She tells Heathcliff that Catherine is recovering from her illness and that he should let her be. He, of course, won't stand for that, and Nelly warns him, 'Another encounter between you and the master would kill her altogether'. Heathcliff wants to see Catherine again and refuses to let Nelly leave until she agrees to act as mediator. 

Heathcliff marches right into Catherine's room, declaring, 'Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?'.
Catherine rebukes him for his actions, saying he is killing her and wishes they were both dead. He grips her until he leaves bruises on her skin, assuring her that he is tortured too. Catherine declares that life is a prison, that she wants to die and take Heathcliff with her. Lots of hugging, kissing, and crying takes place as Heathcliff demands to know why Catherine betrayed him, and her heart, by marrying Edgar. Edgar returns but, with Cathy very ill, he is more concerned with her than his enemy.

Analysis 

• Themes of social class: Heathcliff has changed dramatically in three years. Nelly describes his "transformation" into a "tall, athletic, well-formed man […with] upright carriage" and look of intelligence with "no marks of former degradation"
• Catherines views on Heathcliff contradicts what she said prior, "an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation [. . .]" the mentioning of 'creature' shows that him being poor and no background really affected her. 
• Love: "Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?"

Wuthering Heights Chapter 4-9

Summary

In Thrushcross Grange, Nelly Dean begins to tell Lockwood of the story of Heathcliff. She explains how he was brought to Wuthering Heights as a child and spread discord among the Earnshaw family. As Mr Earnshaw gets older and sick he becomes very protective over Heathcliff . He then sends his son Hindley off to college, resulting in Heathcliff and cute troublesome Cathy growing fond together. Inevitably, Mr Earnshaw passes into eternity, leaving only Cathy who favours him. With no one else liking him, trouble emerges.Hindley then comes back to Wuthering Heights for Mr Earnshaw's funeral alongside his wife Frances, who consistently 'coughed troublesomely' . Consequently Hindley is now the master of the house, things were going to change around Wuthering Heights. When Frances expresses her dislike of Heathcliff, it stokes Hindley's animosity all over again. Hindley decides to start treating his adoptive brother like a servant, reducing him to a farmhand and depriving him of an education. Catherine and Heathcliff grow more rebellious and wild. They sneak into Thrushcross Grange where they meet Isabella and Edgar Linton who detect there are intruders, resulting in Heathcliff and Cathy trying to make an escape, however the dogs catch up to them and Cathy gets injured. They are then dragged into Thrushcross Grange by a servant, where Catherine's wounds heal, receiving the treatment of a princess, leaving Heathcliff to get insulted on his race and class.


Five weeks later, Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights, and you can bet that was a long five weeks for Heathcliff. Without her around, Heathcliff was neglected and abused even more than usual.Catherine has changed a lot during her stay at Thrushcross Grange. No longer the tomboyish wild child, she is composed and groomed, looking quite the little lady. She acts singly from Heathcliff who briefly tries to smarten himself up to impress her but fails, throwing apple sauce over Edgar. Hindley banishes Heathcliff to his room for the remainder of the evening, where he makes a solemn vow to Nelly Dean, and this is where the revenge plot is set in motion.Hareton is born to Hindley and Frances but the latter soon dies of tuberculosis, causing Hindley to gradually fall apart, inducing the treatment of Heathcliff to get worse. Catherine continues her friendship with Edgar, moving further from Heathcliff and closer to Edgar.

In a drunken state, Hindley returns and drops Hareton from the landing; the child is saved by Heathcliff even though he desires nothing more than to ruin Hindley, Heathcliff rescues the child on instinct. . Catherine talks with Ellen and reveals that she has accepted an offer of marriage from Edgar. She says that she couldn't marry Heathcliff because he is too poor and rough but that, really, her heart belongs to him. He overhears the first part of this but not the second and runs away from Wuthering Heights. Catherine goes on to marry Edgar and Ellen leaves with her as her maid.

Analysis 

• Lockwood is naïve, Mrs. Dean is cynical, having spent so many years taking care of Thrushcross Grange. 
• Nelly helps us see the characters background which changes our perspective of the story line and characters
• Themes of social class are introduced: "a gipsy", "a Spanish castaway," - Catherine 'changes' when she stays at Thrushcross grange for 5weeks. The reason why Catherine cant marry Heathcliff 
• Theme of violence and extreme behaviour : Hindley puts a knife in Nelly's mouth 

Wuthering Heights Chapter 3

Summary

Lockwood is shown to a room to sleep which used to belong to Cathy's mother, Catherine. He has a restless night and is apparently woken by a tree branch tapping on the window. As he reaches out to stop it, his wrist is grasped by a cold hand, the ghost of Catherine. He wakes and rouses Heathcliff. Unable to sleep, he moves downstairs until Heathcliff escorts him back to Thrushcross Grange.

Analysis

It is very important that the ghost of Catherine Linton (who is not perhaps simply a figment of Lockwood's imagination) appears as a child. Of course Lockwood thinks of her as a child, since he had just read parts of her early diary, but Heathcliff also seems to find it natural that she appeared in the form she had when they were children together. Rather than progressing from childhood on to a maturer age with its different values, Heathcliff and Catherine never really "grew up." That is to say, everything emotionally important that ever happened in their lives either took place in childhood or follows directly from commitments made then. They never essentially outgrew their solidarity against the oppressive forces of adult authority and religion which is described in Catherine's diary. Thus the ghost of Catherine Linton (and that is her married name) tries to return to her childhood sanctuary, which Heathcliff has kept in its original state. The dominion of linear time is challenged.

It might be relevant here to remember that Emily Brontë kept up the imaginary world created when she was very young well into her early twenties, and hated to leave the home of her childhood.