What Atmosphere, Or Mood, Do These Details Of Setting Establish?
1. What atmosphere, or mood, do these details of setting establish?
Details used to describe the setting, such as “villainous” and grotesque”, start the novel with a mysterious and dark atmosphere.
2. Briefly describe the dreams Mr. Lockwood has when he spends the night at Wuthering Heights. How do the dreams work in the plot to create mystery and suspense?
After seeing the names “Catherine Heathcliff” and “Catherine Earnshaw” written on the wall and reading a book entitled Seventy Times Seven and the First of the Seventy-First. A Pious Discourse delivered by the Reverend Jabes Branderham in the Chapel Gimmerden Sough, Lockwood falls asleep and begins to dream. In his dream, Joseph is escorting him home and he realizes that they are really …show more content…
Following Heathcliff’s departure, Catherine admits that she loves in a much deeper and meaningful way than she loves Edgar Linton. She admits that she could not live her live separated from Heathcliff. I think Heathcliff would have definitely stayed at Wuthering Heights if he heard the rest of Catherine’s conversation with Nelly because he feels the same way about her.
5. How does Nelly’s description of life at Wuthering Heights influence your opinion of Heathcliff? How might your opinion change if the Lintons narrated the story?
Nelly’s harsh description of Wuthering Heights causes to understand better why Heathcliff acts the way he does. The way she describes how mistreated Heathcliff leads me to sympathize with him and judge his actions as harsh as I previously did. I believe that if the Lintons told the story, the evil found in Catherine and Mr. Earnshaw would have been left out. I also believe that Heathcliff would have been portrayed as a much more cynical …show more content…
Catherine tells Nelly that she felt out of place and “not at home”. The angels were angry with her and threw her back to Earth where she landed on the roof of Wuthering Height “sobbing for joy”. This dreams explains the dream Mr. Lockwood has the first night he spends at Wuthering Heights. Lockwood hears a twig scratching the window and thrusts his hand through the glass to stop the noise. While trying to withdraw his arm back inside, Lockwood feels the hand of a little girl, who is also named Catherine, holding on to his arm. The little girl begs for him to let her back in but Lockwood just wants to be set free. He tries to force her to let him go by cutting her wrist on the broken glass. Catherine Earnshaw’s dream explains why a ghost of a little girl would be on the roof of Wuthering Heights. It also explains why the ghost would be begging to come back in and exclaiming that she has been waiting 20 years to be let back in the
Details used to describe the setting, such as “villainous” and grotesque”, start the novel with a mysterious and dark atmosphere.
2. Briefly describe the dreams Mr. Lockwood has when he spends the night at Wuthering Heights. How do the dreams work in the plot to create mystery and suspense?
After seeing the names “Catherine Heathcliff” and “Catherine Earnshaw” written on the wall and reading a book entitled Seventy Times Seven and the First of the Seventy-First. A Pious Discourse delivered by the Reverend Jabes Branderham in the Chapel Gimmerden Sough, Lockwood falls asleep and begins to dream. In his dream, Joseph is escorting him home and he realizes that they are really …show more content…
Following Heathcliff’s departure, Catherine admits that she loves in a much deeper and meaningful way than she loves Edgar Linton. She admits that she could not live her live separated from Heathcliff. I think Heathcliff would have definitely stayed at Wuthering Heights if he heard the rest of Catherine’s conversation with Nelly because he feels the same way about her.
5. How does Nelly’s description of life at Wuthering Heights influence your opinion of Heathcliff? How might your opinion change if the Lintons narrated the story?
Nelly’s harsh description of Wuthering Heights causes to understand better why Heathcliff acts the way he does. The way she describes how mistreated Heathcliff leads me to sympathize with him and judge his actions as harsh as I previously did. I believe that if the Lintons told the story, the evil found in Catherine and Mr. Earnshaw would have been left out. I also believe that Heathcliff would have been portrayed as a much more cynical …show more content…
Catherine tells Nelly that she felt out of place and “not at home”. The angels were angry with her and threw her back to Earth where she landed on the roof of Wuthering Height “sobbing for joy”. This dreams explains the dream Mr. Lockwood has the first night he spends at Wuthering Heights. Lockwood hears a twig scratching the window and thrusts his hand through the glass to stop the noise. While trying to withdraw his arm back inside, Lockwood feels the hand of a little girl, who is also named Catherine, holding on to his arm. The little girl begs for him to let her back in but Lockwood just wants to be set free. He tries to force her to let him go by cutting her wrist on the broken glass. Catherine Earnshaw’s dream explains why a ghost of a little girl would be on the roof of Wuthering Heights. It also explains why the ghost would be begging to come back in and exclaiming that she has been waiting 20 years to be let back in the