The reader of Wuthering Heights may at first suppose that Lockwood is to be the narrator of this novel: for three chapters, indeed, he performs this role, and this device has much to do with the novel's ultimate significance. Almost all that follows is in some sense foreshadowed in the three-chapter prelude, even though Lockwood is in no position to tell us anything of its primary events. ... We see it first throughout the awestruck eyes of Catherine and Heathcliff as children, and as the residence of the wealthy and elegant Lintons. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

From the chapter's inception, Bronte effectively employs Nelly's narration to communicate her own ideas surrounding death. ... She die screaming and cussing.' While the misuse of present tense 'die' insinuates her lack of education and perhaps therefore her lack of ability to properly express herself in the letters, it also displays how Celie can relay what should be a traumatic and horrifying event in a factual manner. ... Bronte here conveys the all-encompassing nature of death and grief, as well as the deep-felt capacity for empathy humans have that we may appear ...

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Desperate to see her father before he dies, Cathy agrees and marries Linton in order to be allowed access to the Grange. ... This relationship is out of keeping however, with the rest of the book and turns the final chapters into that of a typical novel of the rime with the usual happy ending that has become accustomed to most novels in English Literature. ... It would degrade [her] to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how [she] loves him; and that not because he is handsome, Nelly, but because he is more [herself] than [she] is". ... He doesn't stay long enough to hear how ...

• Word Count: 2116
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate