Saturday, June 6, 2015

What is a summary of Wuthering Heights?

We cannot write your assignment for you, but how about if
I give you a list of important things about the plot, and then you put it together into
a paragraph. You have read the novel, so you will know who the characters are that I
list for this plot summary.


  1. Nelly Dean narrates
    a sad Victorian saga of the Earnshaw and Linton families to a tenant named Mr. Lockwood.
    It is a saga of love, passion, revenge, social class and cruelty that takes place on the
    Yorkshire Moors of England.

  2. Well-to-do children Catherine
    and Hindley Earnshaw are forced to grow up with a street urchin named Heathcliff whom
    their father has brought home with him one day from
    London.

  3. Catherine and Heathcliff form a bond with each
    other that turns into a most passionate love as they grow up, but they cannot marry
    because the differences in their social stations prevents
    it.

  4. Catherine marries the weak but wealthy Edgar Linton,
    even though she loves the passionate but troubled Heathcliff; Heathcliff runs away,
    becomes incredibly rich, returns and exacts revenge on all those who have treated him
    poorly in his life, including the woman he loves,
    Catherine.

  5. Catherine and Edgar have a daughter, young
    Catherine. Lindley marries Frances and has a son, Hareton. Heathcliff marries Isabella
    Linton and has a child, Linton.

  6. The pathos of the novel
    is resolved by the younger generation when young Catherine Linton marries Hareton
    Earnshaw.

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