... the reader's curiosity about the strange histories of the denizens of Wuthering Heights. The family relationships, including multiple Earnshaws, Catherines, Lintons, and Heathcliffs, seem at this point in the novel to intertwine with baffling complexity, and the characters, because Lockwood first encounters them late in their story, seem full of mysterious passions and ancient, hidden resentments. Even the setting of this history seems to possess its own secrets. Wild ... the idea that Nelly's feelings for the other characters in the novel are deeper and more complicated than she reveal...

• Word Count: 3960
• Approx Pages: 16
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... of the novel is first perversely replicated in the second. In volume 1, Heathcliff's love for Catherine is deemed impossible by the Lintons and the Earnshaws, and thwarted by Catherine's perverse decision to marry Edgar Linton in order to enrich Heathcliff. In some readings this choice is "forced?by social and patriarchal pressures. In volume 2, a second generation of characters who bear the psychological imprint of their ... mediated by an ambiguous agent-narrator, Nelly Dean, who is as much the manipulator as the reporter of events, and whose insights into the central characters of her ...

• Word Count: 2971
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... a device through which the goals are accomplished. Representations of marriage are also seen throughout each of the books in unfavorable measures. Marriage accomplishes nothing for the characters in Wuthering Heights; in fact it proves to be a destructive force. Once Catherine marries Edgar it only increases Heathcliff's drive for vengeance and makes herself destitute. "Unable to cope with the divestiture of the deepest part of herself-the price ... emotions and characters. "The moral of Wuthering Heights is that it shows what Satan could do with the law of Entail- (Miller 178). When Wu...

• Word Count: 2660
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School