WEEK 2 TO WEEK 10

WEEK 2

SUBJECT - LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

CLASS – SS2

TOPIC – SUMMERING OF CHAPTER ONE TO ELEVEN

Specific Objective:By the student should able to

1. State how the novel reveal the intensity of love exiting between Cathrine and Heathcliff
2. Summaries the event in each chapter
3. Discuss to what extent the life of Heathcillff and Edgar depict cruetly and malicious hartred?

SUMMARIES OF CHAPTERS ONE TO ELEVEN

It was in the year 1808 when Mr, Lockwood the narrator tells the story of his visit to his new landlord called Mr. Heathcliff. Lockwood, a hater, is rentiny Thrush Cross Grange in order to hide away from the society because of his encountered failure in love with the goddess he has loved. On meeting Heathcliff, Lockwood is so happy that he has met a man who is more sociable than him especially at the way he is given him a warm reception. At the Wuthering Heights which is the name of Heathcliff's residence, Lockwood realized that Wuthering means stormy and windy environment. He also sees a carved name near the door bearing "HarethonEarnshaw". Inside the Wuthering Height, where Heathcliff and his old servant Joseph and his cook live, Lockwood is threatened by barking dogs living in the old fashioned rooms. When he calls for help, the landlord, Heathcliff thinks that Lockwood has tried to steal something. Despite his rudeness and embarrassment,

Lockwood still finds himself relaxed with Heathcliff whom he describes as an intelligent, proud but a morose, unlikely farmer. He offers Lockwood some wines and invites him to come again. Inside his mind, he sees the invitation as insincere but decides to return the visit due to the way the landlord arouses his mind.

 

 

CHAPTER TWO

Lockwood is annoyed at the type of housework being done in the Grange. He pays his second visit to Wuthering Heights when snow is falling causing cold weather. After shouting at the old servant Joseph to open the door, Lockwood is let in as another young man opens the entrance. The kitchen is warm and Lockwood thinks that the young, beautiful woman he meets there is Heathcliff's wife. The young lady scornfully refuses to converse with him even when he tries to talk with her. Lockwood fells embarrassed and worst still, she refuses to make tea for him unless Heathcliff says so. When Lockwood and the young man sit for tea, he discovers that the young man is suspecting him of making advances to the girl by the way he behaves. There also, Heathcliff's savagely makes demand for tea which makes Lockwood not to really like him. Lockwood gets more confused by taking the lady as Heathcliff's wife or the wife of the young man whom he takes to be Heathcliff's son. But her husband is dead and she is as Heathcliff's wife. Lockwood is rudely corrected as he comes to understand that the lady is Heathcliff's daughter-in-law. The young man is HaretonEarnshaw. Due to heavy snowfall, Lockwood demands for a guide so that he can return home safely, but it is denied to him. Heathcliff sees it as more important that Hareton takes care of the horses than going out. Joseph, being a religious fanatic, argues with the girl who pretends to be a witch. At the end, Lockwood is left stranded and ignored by all. When he tries to take a lantern, Joseph accuses him of stealing it and sets dogs on him. Lockwood is humiliated and Heathcliff and Hareton laugh at him. He is taken in by cook, Zilla who asks him to spend the night with them.

CHAPTER THREE

Having been ushered into a chamber by Zilla, she discovers that Lockwood does not like it. Being left alone, Lockwood sees some names like Catherine Linton, and Catherine Heathcliff written over the window edge. Readingthrough some old books packed inside the room, he comes across Catherine's childhood diary. He reads some write iSps which show the time when Catherine and Heathcliff were playmates livjng together as brother and sister. The diary also reveals how Joseph bullied them and her older brother, Hindley. Heathcliff by his history was a vagabond (wahderer) rescued by Catherine's father and raised as one of the family members. Unfortunately when the father died, Hindley made him a servant and threaten to send him out which Catherine never likes.

After a while, Lockwood falls asleep while reading a religious book. He dreamt about a religious fanatic leading a vidtent mob. He had his second dream where a little ice-cold hand grabbed his arm and begs him to let him in. The voice introduces herself as Catherine Linton and that she comes home because she lost her way to the Moor. Therein, Lockwood sees a child's face and feels afraid. His efforts to draw the child in through the glass window wound the child's wrist such that the blood stains the sheet before he wakes up screaming. When Heathcliff comes in looking disturbed and confused not knowing that Lockwood is there. He tells Heathcliff what happens and the dream in which Catherine's name is mentioned. The name worries Heathcliff and makes him to be angry. Lockwood also overhears Heathcliff pleading to Cathy to come in at last. Somehow, Lockwood is embarrassed by the landlord's agony. Again, he witnesses in the morning argument between Heathcliff and the girl who is reading. She resists Heathcliff's bulliesbefot she sees Lockwood off.

CHAPTER FOUR

Being so bored and weak after his adventure, Lockwood asks his house keeper, Ellen Dean, to tell him what he knows about Heathcliff and the old families of the area. Ellen informs Lockwood that Heathcliff is rich and stingy. According to the housekeeper, he has no family since his son died. The girl living at the Wuthering Heights is Ellen's former employer's daughter called Catherine Lintons. Ellen worries about the unhappy mood of younger Catherine because she is always fond of her. Also, Ellen says that she grows up at Wuthering Heights where her mother was working as a nurse. She narratedto Lockwood how Mr. Earnshaw returned with a dirty ragged black haired child found starving on the street. The boy was named Heathcliff and was adopted into the family but not fully welcomed by MrsEarnshaw and Hindiey. Catherine and Heathcliff became very friendly and he also became Earnshaw'sfavourites. Hindiey was jealous and unhappy thinking that Heathcliff has taken his place. Even when Earnshaw made clothes for them, Heathcliff chose the finest of it. When Heathcliff claimed that Hindiey threw a heavy iron at him, Heathcliff threatened to import him to Earnshaw.

CHAPTER FIVE

When Earnshaw becomes old and sick, he is obsessed with the fear and idea that people do not like his favourite, Heathcliff. Being his spoilt child, Hthtlley grows more bitter against the situation and he is sent away to college. Worse still, the old Joseph, the self righteous Pharisee uses his religious influence over Earnshaw to separate him from his children. To Earnshaw, he thinks Hindiey is useless. He also hates Cathy's playfulness and high spirits. Cathy is too fond of Heathcliff and likes to order people around just like Heathcliff can do anything she requests. Earnshaw is too harsh to her and she remains more hardened to his reproofs.

At last Earnshaw died in one evening. Cathy does not know until she goes to

kiss her father good night and discovers that he has died. However, the two

children cry without measures:

I shall bid father good- night first, said Catherine

The poor thing discovered her loss directly. She screams

out- oh, he's dead Heathcliff, he's dead [p,30].

Later, they console themselves believing that the old man is in heaven.

CHAPTER SIX

MrHindiey comes home for his father's funeral. Unexpectedly, he returns home with a wife. Hindiey also comes back with new rules with strange manners upon which he orders servants to go and live in inferior quarters. He does not spare Heathcliff as he treats him like other servants, stops his education and makes him to work in the field like any other farm boy.

Heathcliff does not feel it initially because Cathy teaches him what she learns and helps him to work and also plays with in the field. Even Ellen plans to runway to the Moors in the morning till the punishment is over.

One day, the servant ran away after being punished till in the night when Heathcliff returned. Heathcliff and Cathy run to the Grange (farm House) to see how Isabella is doing there. They met Linton's children Edgar and Isabella crying over who will hold the pet dog. They are amused by the actions of the children who go to call their parents. Cathy and Heathcliff try to escape after making frightening noises and a bull dog bites her on the leg and holds her to still. She asks Heathcliff to escape but he comes to her rescue trying to pry the dog's jaws open. Mr and Mrs Linton take them to be thieves. Surprisingly, Edgar recognizes Cathy as Miss Earnshaw and the parents frowns at their wild behaviour especially at Heathcliff for being allowed to keep company with Cathy. The couple treats Cathy with care and drives out Heathcliff. He returns to Wuthering Heights after ensuring that Cathy is in safe hands and alright When Hindley knows what is happening, he accepts the idea of separating Cathy from Heathcliff; As a result, Cathy is to stay for a long time with the Lintons while her dog bite heals. Heathcliff is banned from speaking to her.

CHAPTER SEVEN

Cathy stays at Thrushcross Grange for five weeks until Christmas. By the time she returns home, she has become a transformed lady trained to keep certau i restrictions. As at now, he can hardly kiss Ellen without worrying whether she will stain her clothe with flour.

To Heathcliff, she hurts his feelings by comparing his darkeness and dirtiness to Edgar's and Isabella's fair complexions and clean clotties. In her absence, he has been over neglected. Cathy's new polished life styles and cruel treatment of Hindley hurt him the more. Still, Cathy's love for Heathcliff has not changed but Heathcliff does not know, rather, he runs out and refuses to come irtfar supper. Etenfeete sorry for the way he is treated.

When Linton's children are invited for a Christmas party, Heathcliff politelybegs Ellen to make him decent, promising that he is going to be good. Ellen accepts his promise and also reassures him that Cathy still loves him. Heathcliff wishes he could be more like Edgar both in good looking, riches and good manner. Ellen tells him that he can be handsome if he smiles and is trustworthy. As Heathcliff becomes clean and cheerful, he comes to join the party but Hindley sends him out declaring that he is not fit for the occasion. Edgar mocks his long hair which makes Heathcliff to throw hot apple sauce on him. Because of this, he is taken away and flogged by Hindley. Cathy is angry at Edgar for mocking Heathcliff and putting him into trouble, but she holds herself to avoid ruining her party. Cathy was not herself throughout the party. She thinks of how Heathcliff is beaten and l^ppt alone. When her guests leave, she sneaks into the garret (unfinish room) where Heathcliff is confined. Out of compassion, Ellen offers Heathcliff night food remembering that he has not eaten all the day. He eats little and Ellen being worried asks him why, he says that he is thinking of how to revenge against Hindley. Ellen stops her narratives at this point and goes on to get things done.

CHAPTER EIGHT

Hindley's wife, Francis, delivers a baby Hareton. Believing that she will recover despite doctor's warning, she dies after some weeks. Hindley being shattered in his hope grows in sorrow and desperation to the extent that he curses both God and man. Ellen is happy to care for the baby. The entire household degenerate into violent confusion. Notable people begin to shun their visit except Edgar who visits Wuthering Heights because of Cathy. She dislikes Edgar coming to their house because Edgar's presence used to make her think that she has to behave like Linton's to which she is not comfortable with,

Once upon a time at the absence of Hindley, Heathcliff was offended for seeing Cathy dressing for Edgar's visit. He asked Cathy to shun the visit and come to stay with him but she refused. When he comes, Heathcliff departs, leaving Ellen with them. Inside the house, Catherine shows her bad character by secretly pinching Ellen. Ellen is happy to use the chance to show Edgar how Catherine behaves, Catherine out of anger slaps Ellen and also slaps Edgar for reproving her. For this, Edgar decides to go but Catherine stops him. Being too

weak, he is overcome by Catherine's strong will and two of them reconcile and they become lovers. Later, Hindley returns home drunk and unloads his gun out of precaution.

 

 

CHAPTER NINE

Hindley, fully drunk, shouting and swearing in anger catches Ellen as she tries to hide Hareton in a cupboard for safety. He takes up Hareton and says he will crop his ears like a dog to make him look fearful. As he holds the baby over the banister (handrail),he suddenly hears Heathcliff walking down stairs. He drops the baby yet Heathcliff catches him. Heathcliff even wishes that Hindley kills his own son by mistake due to fpw he hates him. Ellen confirms this by saying that Heathcliff could have remedy the mistake by smashing the baby's skull on the step if it is dark as revenge. While Hindley is shaking and drinking, Heathcliff whispers to Nelly that he wishes Hindley drinks himself to death.

chapter-ten:

Catherine is living-well with her husband^and Isabella. She has her season of silence and groom which Edgar attributes to her illness. Within one year of her marriage, Heathcliff comes back asking Nelly to inform Catherine of his visit. He looks totally changed with good manners and educated speech. Catherine is happy to meet him but Edgar refuses to be happy.

Heathcliff s frequent visit to Linton's family makes Edgar's sister (Isabella) to

fall in love with him to the dislike of her brother. Isabella becomes offended at

Catherine for keeping Heathcliff for herself but she shuns her that Heathcliff is not her match. Catherine teases Isabella by telling Heathcliff that Isabella loves him. On hearing this, Isabella shyly runs out. But Heathcliff confides in Catherine that he will marry Isabella because of her money and to make Edgar unhappy.

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Nelly goes to Wuthering Heights to see how Hindley and his son Hareton are faring. When she sees Hareton, he begins to throw stone at her not knowing that she is his former nurse. Nelly realizes that his father teaches him how tocurse. When Heathcliff visits Thrushcross Grange, Nelly sees him kissing Isabella. She told Catherine what she saw and Heathcliff defended himself by saying that he has a right of doing whatever he wants since Catherine has married another person.

As Edgar comes in, he meets Catherine scolding Heathcliff. Edgar also scolds Catherine for having time to talk with "that blackguard" His comment makes Catherine to feel angry before Edgar orders Heathcliff to leave but he stubbornly ignores him. Then, Edgar asks Nelly to call the servants to send Heathcliff out, but his wife angrily locks the door and throws the key into the fire. When the husband tries to collect it from her, both Catherine and Heathcliff mock Edgar before he beats Heathcliff and goes out to get help. While left alone with Nelly, Catherine expresses her anger at her husband and Heathcliff. Later, Edgar comes inside and wants to know whether Catherine will quit her friendship with Heathcliff. Instead, Catherine runs into her room and refuses to either come out or eat for many days.

EVALUATION

1. State how the novel reveal the intensity of love exiting between Cathrine and Heathcliff
2. Summaries the event in each chapter
3. Discuss to what extent the life of Heathcillff and Edgar depict cruetly and malicious hartred?

ASSIGNMENT

1. Narrate the event that leads to marriage of Heathcliff and Isabella

 

WEEK 3

SUBJECT - LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

CLASS – SS2

TOPIC – SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS TWELVE TO TWENTY TWO

Specific Objective: By the student should able to

1. State the reason why Heathcilff marry Isabella
2. State  how Heathcilff became the LandLord of the thrustcross grange

 

SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS TWELVE TO TWENTY TWO CHAELVE

Catherine having stayed alone for three days in her room, requested for food and water from Nelly. She is annoyed that Edgar is not even worried about her. Giving the situation, Ellen concludes that Catherine is not happy and she thinks of going back to her room at Wuthering Heights. Catherine opens the window and begins to talk to Heathcliff who has left in their childish manner before as if he is there to the surprise of the husband who goes out to bring a doctor for her. Again, Doctor Kenneth informs Ellen that he sees Isabella walking with Heathcliff in the park confirming the rumour that Isabella and Heathcliff are planning to run away together. Ellen rushes back to the house and finds that Isabella has disappeared with Heathcliff. Edgar shows no concern to this.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

After two months, Catherine is diagnosed with a brain feyer while being« pregnant. By this time, Heathcliff and Isabella have returned to Wuthering Heights. She sends an apology letter to her brother asking for forgiveness but,

Edgar refuses to reply her. Again with her experiences with Heathcliff, she sends another letter to Ellen asking whether Heathcliff is a demon or madman. In Wuthering Heights, she sees the place very dirty, uncivilized and unwelcoming. According to Isabella, Joseph is rude to her, Hareton is disobedient, Hindley is a semi shattered madman and at worst, Heathcliff treated her cruelly to the extent that he refuses to allow her to sleep in his room. Again, she discovers that Hindley has a pistol with which he plans to kill Heathcliff. In a nut shell, she feels miserable and regrets her marriage.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

Ellen is not happy at Edgar for refusing to console her sister Isabella. As a result, she goes to visit her at Wuthering Heights. There, she informs Isabella and Heathcliff that Catherine can never become what she was due to her illness. She advises Heathcliff not to bother her anymore. However, Heathcliff ignores her advice and determines not to abandon her in her husband's unserious care, because she loves him more than even the husband. In addition, Ellen urges Heathcliff to treat Isabella with care. Heathcliff expresses in the presence of Ellen his hatred for his wife. Isabella in confidence tells Ellen that she hates Heathcliffas well before he orders her to go upstairs. Before Ellen leaves Wuthering Heights, he gives her a letter for Catherine.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

On Sunday, Ellen gives Catherine the letter from Heathcliff. Catherine is totally changed by her sickness. As Ellen keeps the door open, Heathcliff comes in and Catherine is eager to see him. Their coming together is somehow bitter and sweet. Right there, Catherine accuses Heathcliff of having killed her but Heathcliff cautions her not to say such a thing to avoid hurting him after her death. In return, Heathcliff accuses her of abandoning him for which Catherine asks him to forgive her knowing that she will not even be at peace after death. They hold themselves closely and cried until Ellen informs themthat Edgar is returning. Even when Heathcliff wants to go, Catherine refuses, since she is dying and will never see him again. He agrees to stay and in the course of agitation Ellen discovers that Catherine has fainted before Edgar comes in and Heathcliff hands over Catherine's body to him and tells him to take care of her.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Catherine delivers a child around midnight and also names her Catherine Linton who was the teenage girl Lockwood saw at Wuthering Heights. Sadly, Catherine Earnshaw dies two hours after delivery. Nobody cares for the baby and Ellen wishes it could have been a boy. Even at death, Catherine's corpse looks peaceful and beautiful, and Ellen concludes that she has made heaven at last.

Ellen goes outside to tell Heathcliff though he knows that Catherine is dead and asks Ellen how it happens. In anger, Heathcliff curses Catherine and begs her to haunt him "so he would not be left in this abyss, where I cannot find you! I cannot live without my soul". When Catherine's body is still lying in the Grange, Heathcliff takes advantage of Edgar's absence to see her again. At last, Catherine is buried on Friday.

 

 

 

 

chapter seventeen

On the next day when Ellen is carrying baby Catherine on her laps, Isabella comes in crying. She asks Ellen to call a carriage that can take her to the nearest town, Gimmerton. She' is escaping from the husband with her face cut and silk dress torn. Ellen gives her clothes and binds up her wounds. Isabella tries to destroy her wedding,ring by throwing it into the fire and narrates to Ellen what happens to her

Isabella tells Ellen that she hates Heathcliff and cannot have compassion for him even when he is mourning Catherine's death. He stays alone in his room praying like a Methodist. Hindley discloses to Isabella his plan to kill Heath cliffwith his bladed pistol as he returns from his watch over Catherine's grave. Isabella wants him to be killed but refuses to join. As Hindley tries to kill him, he grabs the weapon and the blade cutsHindley on his wrist. He also kicks and tramples Hindley to faint after losing much blood.

In the morning, Isabella comes down and meets Hindley very sick beside the fire. She informs Hindley how Heathcliff kicks him when he is down. She mocks Heathcliff¹ s action and he throws a knife at her. Isabella runs to the Grange and never returns again. She delivers a son in her new house near London, named Linton. She dies in the twelfth year of her son. Similarly, Hindfey dies six months after Catherines death. Ellen grieves for him and wants to bring back his son Hareton to tfte Grange. She fears Heathcliff who plans to degrade him as his father does to him. After mourning Catherine's death, Edgar loves his daughter whom he calls Cathy.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

After twelve years, Cathy Linton grows up to be the only thing that brings joy to the lonely house. Her father allows her to stay within the park of Grange. On her way to Penistone Crags closed to Wuthering Heights, Ellen runs after her to ensure that she is safe. Heathcliff is not around but she meets Hareton whom Ellen introduces to her as her cousin after taking him as the servant. Cathy cries for mistaking Hareton and he offers her a puppy to console her but she refuses. Ellen tells her that the father does not want her to visit Wuthering Heights and forbids her not to tell Edgar what happens.

 

CHAPTER NINETEEN

After the death of Isabella, Edgar returns with his nephew, Linton. Cathy is happy to see her cousin. In the evening, Joseph comes to claim Linton on Heathcliff's behalf. Ellen tells him that Edgar is sleeping but he goes into his room insisting on taking Linton. Edgar wishes to keep Linton at the Grange but lack legal right to claim him.

CHAPTER TWENTY

When Ellen takes Linton to Wuthering Heights, he is surprised to hear that hehas a father because Isabella has never told him about Heathcliff. Both Joseph and Heathcliff see him. Ellen begs Heathcliff to be kind with the boy. He accepts to care for him at least he is the heir to the Grange, so that after Edgar's death, he will inherit the place.

CHAPTER TWENTY ONE

Cathy misses her cousin when she wakes in the morning. Linton grows up to be a selfish and disagreeable boy. He is fond of complaining about his health. Heathcliff invites Cathy and Ellen to Wuthering Heights where he wants Linton and Cathy to marry so that he will be fully sure of inheriting the Grange.

When they return to the Grange, Cathy tells her father where she has been. She asks Edgar why he has not allowed her to see her cousin at Wuthering Heights. He tells her of Heathcliff's wickedness and warns her not to visit there. Cathy is not happy and begins to relate with Linton through love letters. Seeing the letters, Ellens burns it and threatens to tell her father if she writes it again.

CHAPTER TWENTY TWO

Edgar is confined in the house throughout the winter because of the cold he contacted. Cathy discloses her displeasure to Ellen that she is afraid of being alone if Ellen and her father die. Being stranded at the outside wall, Heathcliff meets her. He tells Cathy that Linton has been sick of her. He urges her to go and visit Linton. Ellen tells her that Heathcliff may be lying. Cathy persuades her to accompany her to see Linton at Wuthering Heights.

EVALUATION

1. State the reason why Heathcilff marry Isabella
2. State  how Heathcilff became the LandLord of the thrust cross grange

ASSIGNMENT

In not less than two page summary chapters twelve to twenty two

 

WEEK 4

SUBJECT - LITERATURE IN ENGLISH

CLASS – SS2

TOPIC – SUMMARY OF CHAPTERS TWENTY THREE TO THIRTY FOUR

SpecificObjective

1. Bytheendofthelessonthestudentshouldabletodiscusstheeventthatleadstotherentingofthrustcrossganrge
2. StatewhyLinton  beggedyoungCathrine tomarryhim
3. StatethereasonHeathcilff toldthefuneralpeopletoburiednexttoCathrine1 whendies

 

CHAPTER TWENTY THREE

Ellen and Cathy meet Linton at Wuthering Heights who complains that the servants don't take care of him. He also complains that writing Cathy has been tiring. Linton says that he wishes Cathy will marry him because he believes that wives always love their husband. As they return home, Ellen warns Cathy not to marry him believing that he will die young. However, Cathy seems not to believe it. Instead, she grows more friendly with him. Ellen catches cold and she is cared by Cathy.

Within three weeks, Elien gets better. She discovers Cathy's evening visit to Wuthering Heights as she explains to her all that happens between her and Linton. On her next visit, Hareton angrily cemes in and orders Cathy and Linton into the kitchen while Cathy is reading something for Linton. Linton in his angry reaction coughs blood and faints. Hareton carries the boy upstairs. He prevents Cathy to follow. Linton refuses to talk to Cathy, but only blames her for what happens last time. Heathcliff hates him but he is unhappy at Wuthering Heights. He only loves Cathy. When Ellen tells Edgar about the several visits, he warns Cathy notfto visit Wuthering Heights. Instead, he writes to Linton to come to the Grange as he likes.

CHAPTER TWENTY FIVE

Ellen explains to Lockwood that these events happened in the year before. She thinks that Lockwood will be interested in Cathy. Edgar asks Ellen about the nature of Linton which she tells him that he is delicate and has little of his father in him. When Edgar resumes his walk, he writes Linton to visit him to the Grange but he declines because of Heathcliff but promises to meet him outside. As Edgar could not walk far, he finally allows Cathy to marry Linton so that she will not leave the Grange when he dies, but not knowing that Linton will die soon.

CHAPTER TWENTY SIX

Ellen and Cathy ride to meet Linton close to Wuthering Heights. He is very ill but pretends to be better. He could not find it easy talking with Cathy before she leaves. He begs her to stay, and to inform her father that he is in tolerable health condition. No sooner had Cathy partly agreed than Linton falling into slumber. Ellen and Cathy return home worried by his strange behaviour.

CHAPTER TWENTY SEVEN

After a week, Ellen and Cathy plan to make a trip to London. Edgar is getting worse in his sickness, making Cathy not to leave him. He approves Cathy's relationship with Linton to ensure her welfare. Cathy is not happy leaving his father. Heathcliff meets them and asks Ellen how long Edgar could live, because

he is worried that Linton may die before him, which will stop the- marriage. Heathcliff orders his son to bring Cathy inside the house which he does. He also locks up Ellen. Heathcliff slaps Cathy bitterly as she protests to go and declares that she will not leave until she marries Linton. Ellen is imprisoned separately from Cathy for five days with Hareton as her jailer.

CHAPTER TWENTY EIGHT

It was on the fifth day of captivity that Zilla released Ellen. Zilla says that Heathcliff has allowed Ellen to go home while Cathy will be released to attend her father's burial Edgar is not dead yet. Ellen inquires from him that Cathy is shut upstairs and she has been forced to marry Linton. He says that Linton is glad that she is being treated harshly.                      

Ellen rebukes Linton for his selfishness and unkindness. As she goes to the Grange, Edgar is happy to hear that his daughter is safe and will come home soon. At the age of thirty nine, Edgar is almost dead. When he hears HeathclifFs plan to inherit his estate, he sends for a lawyer, Mr. Green to change his will. Unfortunately, Heathcliff buys up the lawyer and he does not come on time until it is too late to change the will. Cathy manages to escape in time to see her father again and Edgar dies happy. Mr. Green, contracted by Heathcliff issues quit notice to all the servants in the Grange except Ellen.

CHAPTER TWENTY NINE

Heathcliff comes to the Grangeto bring Cathy to look after Linton who is dying in terror of his father. Ellen begs him to allow Cathy and Linton to live in the Grange. He declines because he wants to put a tenant in the estate being Mr. Lockwood. Heathcliff tells Ellen that he bribes the sexton who digs Edgar's grave to open Catherine coffin for him to see her face again. As that request fails, he bribes the sexton to put his body into Catherine's coffin when he dies. Ellen upon hearing this from Heathcliff is shocked and rebukes him for disturbing the dead but he replies Ellen that Catherine has been haunting him day and night since eighteen years. Heathcliff reveals how he digs out Catherine's corpse at kirkyard just to feel her in his arms again after which he is consoled and tortured as well. Heathcliff has been feeling as if he can see her even when he sleeps in her room, trying to see her but to no avail.

Again, Ellen in her narrative tells Lockwood what Zilla informed her about Cathy's residence at Wuthering Heights. Cathy spends time in Linton's room caring for him when he is terribly sick. Even Heathcliff refuses to bring a doctor at Cathy's request, saying that Linton does not have a value of a farthing. Cathy is left alone to care for Linton till he dies without any one including Joseph and Hareton to assist her. When Cathy is ill for two weeks, Heathcliff informs her that Linton has left all of his property and that of his wife to him. Cathy grows angry against all of them and refuses to forgive them for abandoning her alone with Linton till he dies. She, however, becomes the unfriendly young woman whom Lockwood sees at Wuthering Height. Ellen after Lintons believes that the only way Cathy can escape from Wuthering Heights is to re-marry another man.

CHAPTER THIRTY ONE

Lockwood goes to the Wuthering Heights to tell Heathcliff that he will not live instead he is going to London to live. Cathy in her captivity expresses her longing for freedom. She also complains that Heathcliff has destroyed her book such that she cannot write Ellen. Sooner, Heathcliff enters to bear his anger and grief in solitude. Later, Heathcliff invites Lockwood to the cheerless meal, which he manageably eats before he leaves. He thinks of courting Cathy and bringing her into a happy environment in the town.

CHAPTER THIRTY TWO

At the end of 1801, Lockwood returns to Grange on a haunting mission. He finds the place almost empty. He sees Cathy teaching Hareton how to read. In his path finding trip to see what has changed in Wuthering Heights, Ellen is happy to meet him as he promises to settle her rent since she is acting for Cathy. Nelly comes after Lockwood's departure and she is not happy at the way the young Catherine's personality Has changed in the course of time. Cathy and Hareton reconcile and they become loving friends to Joseph's anger.

CHAPTER THIRTY THREE

Ellen sees Cathy and Hareton in the garden planting a flower garden in the most cherished bush by Joseph. As soon as Joseph comes in, he laments for the bushthey destroy which makes Heathcliff to call Cathy an "insolent sluf” and threatens to break her in pieces after ordering Hareton to throw her out. Cathy by Hareton's advice seizes to insult Heathcliff anymore and the duo continues to live friendly. Heathcliff comes up and is surprised to see both Hareton and Cathy losing like Catherine Earnshaw. He informs Ellen that he has lost his motivation for destruction just because of their resemblance to Catherine. He takes Hareton and Cathy as apparitions that evoke his beloved.

CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR

After few days, Heathdiff stops eating and spends the whole night walking. Catherine comes out and sees him looking more excited, wild and glad. At dinner, he totally loses interest in eating. He seems to be watching something by the window and goes outside. He later goes outside expressing unnatural appearance of joy, Blen tries to ask him why the sudden behaviour, but he replies that he is within the sight of his heaven.

In the evening, Bten finds Heathcliff sitting in the dark alone with all the windows open. Ellen wonders whether he is a vampire. On the next day, he became more restlessand began to lose his speech filled with emotional and physical anquish. Heatehdlflff sends for his lawyer, Mr. Green to settle things, yet refusing to eat or sleqp. However, Slenasks him to repent of his sins. He also begs Ellen to make sure that his body is buried next to Catherine's grave. As he is dying, he is talking open about Catherine. Heathcliff refuses to see the doctor Ellen invites to attend to himAgain, on the next morning, she finds him dead in his room. Hareton mourns for him and his death is attributed to depression. He is buried besides Catherine as he requested. People used to claim that his ghost and that of Catttaiine roam the Moor. Cathy and Hareton engage themselves. They plan to movetothe Grange leaving Joseph and the ghosts in Wuthering Heights.

 

 

 

CHARACTERIZATION /ROLE    (5^th week to 10^th week)

A: HCATHCLJFF

He is one of the central characters of the novel. He is an orphan whom Mr. Earnshaw adopted and brought to live in Wuthering Heights. He falls into a deepand unbreakable love with Earnshaw's daughter, Catherine. He becomes a victim of hate after the death of Eamshaw. His resentful son, Hindley, not only abuses him but treats htm like a servant. His humiliation and misery cause him to spend most of his life trying to carry out a revenge against Hindley. He is a fierce and cruel man who is always destructive and aggressive in character because he is denied access to marry Catherine. Upon the death of Edgar, Heathcliff acquires both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange which is the estate of Edgar Linton. Heathcliff inhuman devotion to Catherine even in death is the distinctive feature of this character laa.symbollentel, Heathcliff stands for wild and natural forces which often seem mysterious and dangerous to humanity.

B: CATHERINE EARNSHAW

She is the daughter of MrEarnshaw. She falls in love with the adopted son of her father, Heathcliff. Catherine's desire for social relevance is the reason behind her marriage with Edgar Unton instead of Heathcliff. Their intense love for each other is much expressed in Catherine's confession and claims that she is the same with Heathcliff. Character wise, Catherine is free spirited and often arrogant in relating with others especially in defence of Heathcliff. She is beautiful and charming but flawed by an unruly temper. She is survived by a daughter who is also named Catherine.

C: EDGAR UNTON

He is the older brother of Isabella who marries Catherine Earnshaw. He is also the father of Catherine Linton. He is an ideal gentleman who is well bred so much that Catherine describes him as being handsome and pleasant to be with. He combines moral cheerfulness with riches thereby reflecting his elevated social class. As a refined gentleman, he is easily disposed to unforgiveness when his dignity is hurt. For instance, Edgar frowns at Isabella's elopement with Heathcliff and turns his back on her even when her situation get worse with Heathcliff.

D: LOCKWOOD

He is the narrator of the novel and a gentleman from London. His roles in the novel serve as an intermediary between Nelly and the reader. Again, Lockwoodcomes from a domesticated region of England. He seems to be sympathetic and always likes to patronize the people around him. This sense of compassion is the driving force that makes him to settle a rentage for Ellen. He is baffled by the strange behaviours of the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights which negates the principles of social conventions and norms that characterize his world in England. He is the potential tenant that comes for Grange estate but declines his interestafter hearing everything from Nelly.

E. ISABELLA LINTON

She is the younger sister of Edgar. She falls in love with Heathcliff and elopes with him without her brother's consent. Her marriage with Heathcliff gives rise to the birth of her son, Linton Heathcliff. In the novel, Isabella can be described as a shallow minded young lady blessed with natural beauty. She is also quick witted but handicapped by foolishness especially in making choices. Her unhappy marriage for which she runs out of wedlock and resides in London brings an element of cruelty in her character against the husband who treats her brutally. Before her death, she hates Heathcliff with all her mind.

F: HINDLEY EARNSHAW

He is the only son of Mr and Mrs. Earnshaw and the brother of Catherine, He is morally inclined to bullying and discontention against Heathcliff whom his father loves and cares for. After the death of his father, he inherits the Grange estate as the heir apparent. He abuses and torments Heathcliff by stopping his education and forces Heathcliff to work in the farm out of hate. He becomes addicted to alcoholism and dissipation following the death of his wife.

G: LINTON HEATHCLIFF

He is the son of Heathcliff and Isabella. He is a combined picture of odd characters of his parents. In Wuthering Heights, Linton can be described as an effeminate, sickly in nature with cruel disposition. He is hated and often despised by his father. He uses his condition as an invalid to torment the tender Cathy Linton who devotes to caring for him. Linton marries Cathy by force as planned by his father. He dies soon after the marriage.

H.ELLEN DEAN (NELLY)

She plays a role in the novel as one of the main narrators. She has been a servant throughout her life serving both the Earnshaws and Union's. She has mastery of all their family stories and histories. Ellen is an independent and high spirited servant who narrates everything about Wuthering Heights to Mr. Lockwood.

X: CATHY UNION

She is the daughter of the older Catherine and Edgar Linton. With Heathcliff s selfish arrangement, she is beaten into marriage with Linton by Heathcliff. By moral standard, she takes after her mother though with her "wildness". Upon Linton's death, she re-marries Hareton after reconciling with him and after the death of Heathdiff.

THEMES/MORAL LESSONS

"Wuthering Heights" as a fictional piece is a package of many themes such as:

A: LONELINESS AND ISOLATION

In the novel, Blonte uses and presents characters who value loneliness and isolation as the only panacea to their psychic-wounds (heartbreaks). Most of the characters like Heathcliff becomes a loner and monster because of his yearning and mourning for Catherine's ddath. Again, Mr. Lockwood desires to rent Thrushcross Grange just to cool his emotional anguish in solitary zone. Hindley becomes cruel and lonely upon the death of his wife, Francis. These characters appreciate lonely moment and environment as the only psychological thereapy that can heal their love failures and romantic disappointment with time.

B. THE DESTRUCTIVENESS AND GENUITYOFIOVE

Love and its destructive tendency is one of the fundamental and universal ideas explored in the novel. Evidently, Catherine and Heathcliff's passion for each other is the centerpiece of "Withering Heights". As romantic heroes, their love transcends social norms and conventional morality. It is recorded in the-novel that their love is strangely asexual and goes beyond the convention of love among fornicators and adulterers. Conversely, the destructive nature of their love is the rationale behind Heathcliff' endless mourning of Catherine's death. Hindley for losing his lover is turned to cruelty, drunfenness and depression till he dies.

C: THEME OF SOCIAL AND CLASS DISTINCTION

The novel is an x-ray of social class, identity and status as reflected in most characters through their education, exposure and wealth. For example, Catherine to maintain her quest for social recognition and relevance pretentiously marries Edgar while her love is only built around Heathciiff. Again, these characters are socially structured to show their societal values and positions in the fiction. Joseph, Ellen, Ziila, Heathcliff etc are portrayed as servants while Mr. Lockwood, Isabella, Hindley, Edgar, etc with their household define a set of people from exalted social background.

 

D, THE PREVALENCE OF DISEASE/SICKNESS AND DEATH

The tragic intensity of the novel is heightened by the prevalence of disease and sickness which-has resulted in serial premature deaths. For instance, Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw die out of fever infection of Catherine. Hindley's wife dies in a short time after delivering Hareton. Isabella becomes sick and dies premature living her only son, Linton. Catherine, after suffering from brain fever dies leaving alone Cathy among others. In a nutshell, the prominence of sickness with its attendant death in the novel is a physical denominator of external forces and challenges fighting human survival and destinies in the world and especially the era of Emily Blonte.