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Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights. Chapter 9. Main Events. Hareton dropped from the stairs. Cathy asked to marry Edgar Linton. Cathy confessing her love for Heathcliff. Heathcliff runs away. Cathy becomes sick. Marriage of Cathy and Edgar. Characters. Heathcliff-Leaves Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights

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  1. Wuthering Heights Chapter 9

  2. Main Events • Hareton dropped from the stairs. • Cathy asked to marry Edgar Linton. • Cathy confessing her love for Heathcliff. • Heathcliff runs away. • Cathy becomes sick. • Marriage of Cathy and Edgar.

  3. Characters • Heathcliff-Leaves Wuthering Heights • Cathy-Wants approval for her decisions, Upset she offended Heathcliff, True intentions concerning Edgar. • Hindley-Drink and Gambling problem develops. • Nelly-The extent of her care for Hareton, becomes Housekeeper at Thrushcross Grange.

  4. Themes • The recurrence of the motif of Heathcliff’s nature- “Heathcliff arrived underneath just at the critical moment; by a natural impulse”. • Class system of Victorian Britain- “I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood” • Themes of dreams and Heaven/Hell

  5. Key Quotes • “Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever souls are made of, his and mine are the same” • “he’ll be the most unfortunate creature that was ever born! As soon as you become Mrs Linton, he loses friend, and love, and all!” • “My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff’s miseries” • “Heathcliff had never been heard of since the evening of the thunder-storm”

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