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    Wuthering Heights Chapter 6: Character analysis: Nelly Dean: Nelly Dean is a servant in the Wuthering Heights‚ who originally grew up there. Also she is the narrator for this particular chapter. Nelly can be seen as quietly observant. Unlike Mr. Lockwood who makes assumptions and is quick to blurt out the first words that come to his mind‚ Nelly pays attention and then may‚ make her judgments. This can be seen in the first and second paragraphs where she talks recounts her first encounter

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    kitten’. Volume 1 Chapter 4: • While recovering from his trip to the Heights‚ Lockwood engages his housekeeper Nelly Dean ‚ to tell him a story of the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. • We learn that Cathy Heathcliff is the last of the Lintons‚ just as Hareton is the last of the Earnshaws. • Nelly hints that Heathcliff cheated Hareton out of his rightful inheritance. • Nelly Dean takes over the

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    In this case‚ Joseph and Nelly Dean’s pain and suffering are derived from sin and the cost of their sin. God says that salvation is achieved through accepting Jesus as our savior and living our lives in honor of him. Joseph repeatedly comments on the devil‚ heaven‚ Scripture‚ the Lord‚ and the Bible‚ proving his firm beliefs in the Christian faith. While almost every time he speaks Joseph manages to reference christianity‚ Nelly Dean is fairly more subtle in introducing her religious

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    http://www.unac.org/rights/actguide/questions.html ----------------------- Whereas recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom‚ justice and peace in the world‚ Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind‚ and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and

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    In the novel "Wuthering Heights"‚ the major female character‚ Catherine had given birth to young Catherine. Their character traits are alike. There are contrasts between them‚ too. Nelly once said that‚ "Cathy was the most winning thing that ever brought sunshine into a desolate house - a real beauty in face - with the Earnshaw’s handsome dark eyes." But Heathcliff said that‚ "Those two‚ who have left the room‚ are the only objects which retain a distinct material appearance to me; and that appearance

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    Heights A very complex element of Emily Bronte’s writing technique is the narrative style she uses when alternating between the two characters of Nelly Dean and Lockwood.   Wuthering Heights is a story told through eye witness accounts‚ first through Lockwood‚ followed by Nelly. Lockwood’s responsibility is shaping the framework of the novel whereas Nelly provides the intricate recount of the personal lives of all the characters having been present first hand.   Although‚ each character does have a

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    Emily Bronte‚ the author of Wuthering Heights wrote this book setting the scene in 1801 on a cold winter evening. It’s written in present tense and is narrated by the main characters; Mr Lockwood a tenant at Thurshcross Grange and Nelly Dean‚ the housekeeper of Thurshcross Grange. Chapter one introduces the characters Mr Heathcliff‚ Joseph‚ Cathy and Mr Lockwood himself. He is currently visiting Yorkshire and is therefore staying at Thurshcross Grange his landlord is Mr Heathcliff who lives at Wuthering

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    the novel. Lockwood himself writes a diary in which the reader follows him‚ a tenant of Mr. Heathcliff’s‚ through his encounter with his new landlord as well as his past. Lockwood inquires about the on goings of the moors he now lives on and asks Nelly to help him to understand what is going on through a detailed series of her firsthand events. The various points of view from each of the narrators provides detailed context but along with that there is still the question of the actual reliability

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    Thrushcross Grange during her life‚ and when at Wuthering Heights‚ she is bold‚ unmanageable and untamed. Nelly describes the unruly young Catherine saying‚ ". . . I never saw a child take up before; and she put all of us past our patience fifty times and oftener a day . . . Her spirits were always at high-water mark‚ her tongue always going . . . plaguing everybody. . . A wild‚ wicked slip she was. . ." Nelly says‚ "Her spirits were always at high-water mark" to show how Catherine was at Wuthering Heights

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    of Heathcliff with the lowly word "degradation"‚ Nelly‚ the narrator‚ tells Lockwood how Heathcliff and Catherine (the mother of Cathy) grow more reckless daily without parental guidance. Nelly recalls these events right before Catherine is injured and stays at Thrushcross Grange for five weeks. Nelly also said that Heathcliff and Catherine "promised... to grow up rude as savages." The punishments the two received from Joseph and the Curate‚ Nelly notes‚ haven’t helped her increase the "small power"

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