Wuthering Heights Review
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Why did Mr. Lockwood go to Wuthering Heights? What Kind of welcome did he receive?
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To look at the property he was considering purchasing
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When Lockwood first enters Wuthering Heights, who lives there?
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Catherine, Heathcliff, Hareton, and Joseph
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What feeling do we get from Wuthering Heights and its occupants in these first few chapters?
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The occupants are cross, cold, sulky, and dark
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Describe Heathcliff
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Dark with black eyes, well dressed, sullen, and short-tempered
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What glimpses from the past does Lockwood discover from Catherine's books?
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He learns of Catherine's fondness for Heathcliff.
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Who appears in Mr. Lockwood's dream?
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Catherine
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Who is Nelly Dean?
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Lockwood's servant, housekeeper at Thrushcross Grange
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What do the gift Hindley and Catherine ask their father to bring them reveal about their characters?
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Catherine is the more robust of the two
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What are Heathcliff's origins?
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Mr. Earnshaw found him on the streets of Liverpool and took him in.
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Why does Hindley despise Heathcliff?
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Mr. Earnshaw favors Heathcliff over Hindley
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Descrive Catherine.
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High-strung, carefree, and insolent
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Compare and contrast Catherine's and Heathcliff's reactions to the Lintons at Thrushcross Grange
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Heathcliff is disgusted; Catherine likes their elegant style of living
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Why did Edgar get applesauce dumped on him?
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His comments about Heathcliff's hair puts Heathcliff in a temper
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Catherine is pained by Hindley's punishment of Heathcliff, yet she remains as the hostess of her guests. What change does this reveal?
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She loves Heathcliff and worries about him, but she is strongly drawn to the Lintons and their life style
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What does Heathcliff begin to plan?
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Revenge of Hindley
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Who is Hareton?
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Son of Hindley and Frances
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How does Frances' death affect Hindley?
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he becomes more cruel and despondent
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Edgar gets a good look at Catherine's "other side". What is his reaction?
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He is horrified but still attracted to her.
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Who saves Hareton's life?
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Heathcliff
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Why does Catherine accept Edgar's proposal when she knows Heathcliff is a part of her soul?
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She's proud and seduced by the money and power of a marriage to Edgar and deludes herself into thinking it will put her in a position to help Heathcliff
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Why does Heathcliff disappear?
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Catherine hurts his feelings, so he leaves
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how has Heathcliff change during his absence of three years?
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better appearance and education but more full of hate and cruelty
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who is Isabella, and what does she think of Heathcliff?
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Edgar's sister who takes a fancy to Heathcliff
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how does heathcliff begin his revenge on hindley
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Heathcliff wins great gambling debts from Hindley playing cards
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Descrive Hareton Earnshaw as a boy
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Wild; no-education; no manners
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Why does Heathcliff embrace Isabella?
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He sees an opportunity to hurt Edgar through her
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Why does Catherine put herself into a fit?
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She wants both Edgar and Heathcliff for herself. She cannot reconcile them or stop Heathcliff from "courting" Isabella. Thus, her power over everyone is diminishing
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Describe the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine
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They love but torment each other
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For what does Heathcliff plead from Catherine
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For her ghost to haunt him
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why does Edgar bury Catherine away from the family?
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He wants her to be near the moors she loved
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Isabella hates Heathcliff and yet she wants him that Hindley has a gun and means to shoot him. Why?
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Although she wishes him dead, Isabella cannot be a party to cold-blooded murder
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Why is Hareton doing when Isabella escapes?
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Hanging a litter of puppies
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Who is Linton?
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Son of Isabella and Heathcliff
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Compare/Contrast the way Hindley and Edgar rear their children?
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Hindley is an abusive parent to Hareton, Edgar is loving to Catherine
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Upon Hindley's death, who owns Wuthering Heights, and how?
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Heathcliff owns it as mortgage holder
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Descrive Cathy's relationship with Hareton at their first meeting?
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They get along well until Cathy calls Hareton a servant
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Descrive Linton Heathcliff
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Blond, pale, thin, sickly
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Why does Heathcliff want Linton?
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Heathcliffs sees a way to get Thruscross Grange through Linton
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Why does Heathcliff feel an affection for Hareton?
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Hareton is the wild and robust son Heathcliff wanted
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Why does Nelly cut off the love letters between Cathy and Linton
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Nelly wants to protect Cathy from Heathcliff's schemes
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How does Heathcliff get Cathy to visit Linton?
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he appeals to her pity for Linton
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linton is not very likable. Why do you thinking Cathy cares for him?
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her care is pity more than love
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What are the relationships among Hareton, Cathy, and Linton?
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Cathy loves Linton, hareton loves cathy, and hareton is jealous of linton
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Where do Cathy and Linton meet?
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on the moors
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Why does Heathcliff want Cathy and Linton to marry?
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It is through their union and Linton's early death that he will control Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange--the gamily fortunes of both of his enemies
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Why did Heathcliff kidnap Cathy and Nelly?
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to get full revenge, he must get catchy and linton married before edgar dies
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why does linton help cathy escape to see her father
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he is tried of her crying--and perhaps he feels some pity for her
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how has heathcliff arranged to finally be with catherine?
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he has bribed the gravedigger to remove the near sides of their coffins so that their dust may single
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after linton dies, what is left for cathy?
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she has no mercy and is a prisoner at Wuthering Heights
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why is hare ton trying to learn to read?
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he wants to win Cathy's approval
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heathcliff abuses hareton and tried to see hindley in his features, but who does he see?
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catherine
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how has withering heights changed in mr. lock wood's absence
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the house is cheerful, cathy and hareton are in love, heathcliff has died
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how did heathcliff change towards the end?
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became preoccupied and obsessed with catherine
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how is heath cliff's death like catherine's?
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both seemed already to be part of the world to which they were going
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how is the bitterness and hatred in the story finally overcome
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by all the love of cathy and hareton
