Catherine's Ghost in Wuthering Heights
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- Created on: 15-02-16 23:50
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- Catherine's Ghost in Wuthering Heights
- Overlap with his dream which has a strong theme of morality
- Trope of the Uncanny in the Gothic
- The ghost is mistaken for a branch several time
- But this reading, he thinks he has control over his subconscious
- "Why did I think Linton? I had read Earnshaw twenty times"
- Ironic: his hellish dream becomes into his reality. A place of escape from nightmares
- Also he literally is sleeping in a coffin - a tell tale sign of death and disrupting the dead? Such as Catherine?
- Trope of the Uncanny in the Gothic
- Presentation of Catherine's Ghost
- 'Child's face' - trying to encapsulate the past Catherine Earnshaw rather than Linton. Is this what haunts Wuthering Heights/Heathcliff - regret?
- Despite Catherine being at home on the moors with Heathcliff she has got 'lost' just as Lockwood has
- She has 'come home' to Wuthering Heights. The place where she was a child. Link to the past
- Although ghosts are initially presented as a subliminal thing, something that human's cannot grasp. This ghost has physical attributes
- "I pulled its wrists on to the broken pane (...) till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes"
- A physical reminder of the Ghost's presence. Adapting supernatural tropes in the Gothic?
- "I pulled its wrists on to the broken pane (...) till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes"
- Adds a sense of realism through hearing the voice of the ghost
- "I'm come home, I'd lost my way on the moor!"
- "Let me in - let me in!"
- "Twenty years I've been a waif for twenty years"
- Presentation of Lockwood
- Althoguh initially being presented as perfectly civilised, takes a drastic change
- "Terror made me cruel" - the effect of trauma even on the best of people
- "The intense horror of nightmare came over me" - He is scared and instinctively acts out of violence
- He is the one to physically hurt a young girl even if it is a ghost
- Disrespectful to the Catherine whom he believes in a 'minx' - he corrects himself though
- Presentation of Heathcliff
- He is mortified at the concept of anyone staying in Cathy's room - "I've a good mind to turn them out of this house"
- He replies to Lockwood's perception of Catherine with 'savage vehemence'
- His masculine, unfeeling exterior is broken down by the Ghost and at the concept of being reunited with Catherine even in a different form
- "gush of grief"
- "Oh! My heart's darling! Hear me this time, Catherine"
- Overlap with his dream which has a strong theme of morality
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