“In What Ways Do Lockwood’s Personality and Social Class Aff

In the opening scenes prior to his meeting with Heathcliff Lockwood comes across as quite a cultured, polite gentleman and makes a connection between him and Heathcliff by stating he is a “capital fellow” and claims that both he and Heathcliff are both misanthropes. As the reader learns not too long afterwards, Lockwood couldn’t have painted a more wrong picture, almost everything he said can be discarded and it is from this point on that Lockwood’s account of e

It is evident that Lockwood’s Personality, in particular his lack of an ability to make good judgements and his social class play a big role in how he views the happenings and the characters in the novel. The unreliability of Lockwood as a provider of facts in his narration, serve as an intermediary between Nelly and the reader. This also helps to further supports the facts that Nelly brings to the story through her narration.

Lockwood comes from a more domesticated and cultured part of England than that of Wuthering Heights and upon his visit to Heathcliff’s home he finds himself in a state of shock when he sees that the household completely disregards all the social conventions that he has grown up with and that have always structured his world. Because Lockwood comes from a high social class this has a large impact on how he sees the events and the characters of Wuthering heights and his attitudes towards them. Lockwood’s misunderstanding of the way things work socially in Wuthering Heights leads him into, from a reader’s perspective, a few

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