Lanterna Rally

Author: Emily Brontë

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2020-11-07

Total Pages: 416

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Wuthering Heights begins with Lockwood, a Heathcliff tenant, visiting his landlord's home. A subsequent visit to Wuthering Heights produces an accident and a curious supernatural encounter, which piques Lockwood's curiosity. Back at Thrushcross Grange and recovering from her illness, Lockwood begs Nelly Dean, a maid who grew up in Wuthering Heights and now worries about Thrushcross Grange, to tell her the story of Heathcliff. Nelly narrates the main plot of Wuthering Heights. Earnshaw, a Yorkshire farmer and owner of Wuthering Heights, brings home an orphan from Liverpool. The boy's name is Heathcliff and he is raised with Earnshaw's children, Hindley and Catherine. Catherine loves Heathcliff but Hindley hates him because Heathcliff has replaced Hindley in the affection of Mr. Earnshaw. After Mr. Earnshaw's death, Hindley does what he can to destroy Heathcliff, but Catherine and Heathcliff grow up playing wildly in the wastelands, unaware of anything or anyone else, until they meet the Lintons. Edgar and Isabella Linton live in Thrushcross Grange and are completely opposite from Heathcliff and Catherine. The Lintons welcome Catherine into their home, but avoid Heathcliff. Treated as an outsider once more, Heathcliff begins to think about revenge. Catherine splits her time between Heathcliff and Edgar at first, but soon spends more time with Edgar, which makes Heathcliff jealous. When Heathcliff hears Catherine tell Nelly that she will never be able to marry him (Heathcliff), he leaves Wuthering Heights and leaves for three years. While he's gone, Catherine continues to court and ends up marrying Edgar. Their happiness is short-lived because they are from two different worlds, and their relationship is further strained when Heathcliff returns. Relationships are further complicated when Heathcliff ends up living with his enemy, Hindley (and Hindley's son, Hareton), in Wuthering Heights and marries Edgar's sister Isabella. Shortly after Heathcliff's marriage, Catherine gives birth to Edgar's daughter, Cathy, and dies. Heathcliff vows revenge and doesn't care who he hurts while executing him. He wants to take control of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange and destroy everything Edgar Linton holds dear. To get revenge, Heathcliff must wait 17 years. Eventually, he forces Cathy to marry his son, Linton. At that point he is in control of Heights and with Edgar's death, he is in control of Grange. Despite all this, however, Catherine's ghost haunts Heathcliff. What you really want more than anything else is to reunite with your soulmate. At the end of the novel, Heathcliff and Catherine are united in death, and Hareton and Cathy will be united in marriage.