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The narration technique used in Wuthering Heights

 


             name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small-Catherine Earnshaw, here and there .
             varied to Catherine Heathcliff, and then again to Catherine Linton." (Pg 24) This quote gives us .
             a glimpse as to what may have happened between Catherine and other characters, since the last .
             part of each name changes implying her interest in each of them. The entire story consists of .
             the contents of Lockwood's diary which he had compiled from various places, including diary .
             entries, the back of books, stories that Nelly Dean tells him and his own experiences. Although .
             this, Lockwood could be viewed as a biased narrator. When Lockwood comes to the Heights he .
             is an outside, looking in. He is judging what he sees and hears by his own standards. .
             Lockwood is a higher class then the people at the Heights and Grange, and when judging them, .
             he judges them as if he was in a normal world. Due to his lack of judgement, he completely .
             misreads the situation of the people.
             The second narrator introduced is Nelly Dean, who tells the most of the story. Although .
             placed between both household, and better educated then most servants, and is thought to be .
             reliable. Nelly had lived on the moors almost all of her life with the people whose her story .
             depicts. Although uneducated, she is thought to be one of the more intelligent minds on the .
             moors. "Excepting a few provincialisms of slight consequence, you have no marks of the .
             manners which I am habituated to consider as peculiar to your class. I am sure that you have .
             thought a good deal more than the generality of servants think. You have been compelled to .
             cultivate your reflective faculties for want of occasion for frittering your life away in silly .
             .
             trifles."(Pg 65) This quote is an example of Lockwood's view towards Nelly's intelligence. He .


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