English 104 - Introduction to Narrative
03 Blog: Wuthering Heights
Isabella's naivete
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Liz Button
The function of Isabella in the novel is to gauge the reader's perception of Heathcliff. He is highly volatile and controversial, and it is natural for readers to come to a speedy conclusion regarding his ostensibly villainous character. However, it is also natural for readers to become intrigued with the...
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Posted by ebutton on October 29, 2003 at 04:22 PM
Isabella as a naive observer
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Liz Button
The function of Isabella in the novel is to gauge the reader's perception of Heathcliff. He is highly volatile and controversial, and it is natural for readers to come to a speedy conclusion regarding his ostensibly villainous character. However, it is also natural for readers to become intrigued with...
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Posted by ebutton on September 30, 2003 at 11:40 PM
A New Catherine
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Europa Yang
Little Catherine is indeed an extension of her mother’s personality and shares the similar dominating traits of displaying disobedience towards authority and household rules, an adventurous spirit and “a warm heart (p.187)”, yet being rudely outspoken and impatient at times. Each one hungers for affection, love, and attention and consequently...
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Posted by eyang on September 30, 2003 at 09:57 AM
Isabella's misfortune is a warning
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jennifer Bernstein
Heathclifff, now a strikingly handsome and mysterious gentleman, has returned from a long pause in the story, it seems, a changed man. And like Isabella, we are entranced and excited and hopeful to see if he has truly reformed as much in character as he has in appearance–to see if...
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Posted by jbernste on September 30, 2003 at 09:48 AM
Isabella's Narration
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Meredeth Lammert
Isabella’s narration, is in some parts, a way for Bronte to continue intimate parts of the story where Nelly is unable to do so. There is no way for Nelly to intimately recount the story of what is happening while Heathcliff and Isabella are at Wuthering Heights. She gets...
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Posted by mlammert on September 30, 2003 at 09:47 AM
Why Isabella's Point of View?
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jeff Nolin
Bronte shifts the point of view of the story to Isabella’s via the letter that she sends to Nelly. The reason Bronte does this is so the reader can get a vivid picture of the revenge that Heathcliff enacts onto Isabella. Since Nelly was at Thrushcross Grange when this happened,...
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Posted by jnolin on September 30, 2003 at 09:30 AM
Isabella's Purpose
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Mike Stratton
The shift in narration in chapter XIII, acts as a means to display how destitute those in Wuthering Heights have become. Isabella, who married into Wuthering Heights, gives us an innocent’s view of the maliciousness and revengeful actions which occurred within. She is witness to the revenge plots of Hareton...
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Posted by mstratto on September 30, 2003 at 09:30 AM
Heathcliff's continuing sadism
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jeb Bobseine
Cathy continues the presence of her mother, and does not replace her; Heathcliff sustains only the sadism, and nothing of the love, or the obsession. There is sadism, and thus a sort of continuation, demonstrated in the parallel aspects within the two following instances. Heathcliff places “the lifeless-looking form in...
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Posted by jbobsein on September 30, 2003 at 09:24 AM
The Nut Doesn't Fall Far From the Tree
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Dan Herzberg
Catherine Linton serves an extension of her mother within the novel. The two share many things in common including the desire to be with men who have severe shortcomings—Heathcliff is twisted and sadistic, while Linton is weak and sickly. Similarly, both Catherine and her mother are desired by Heathcliff—her mother...
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Posted by dherzber on September 30, 2003 at 09:14 AM
Catherine Continues
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Julie Calareso
Young Catherine is more of a continuation than a replacement of her mother, Catherine. Many striking similarities and parallels exist between the two Catherine's lives. For instance, the late Catherine married into the Linton Family, and young Catherine is not only marrying into that family, but her love's name is...
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Posted by jcalares on September 30, 2003 at 08:43 AM
Catherine and her mother as one
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Monica Ruzicka
As time passes at Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights, Catherine knows her mother solely through her father’s and Nelly’s recollections. She is disconnected from her mother’s former presence and memory in such a way, that she is more able to adopt eerily similar actions and relations. Thus, over time, Catherine...
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Posted by mruzicka on September 30, 2003 at 08:28 AM
like mother, like daughter
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jin-Sun Kim
Young Catherine continues the presence of her mother because her actions and ways resemble those of her mother’s. Young Catherine leads a life parallel to that of her mother. They both love a man, but that love is forbidden. In addition, they both marry men who they do not love....
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Posted by jkim3 on September 30, 2003 at 03:15 AM
Freedom from the Past
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Alex Smith
The relationships that younger Catherine establishes within her own generation (i.e. with Linton and Hareton) are a continuation of many parallel elements that existed in her mother’s situation, yet she also manages to replace her mother’s “imprisoned” spirit with one that is more “free” when it comes to her relationships...
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Posted by asmith9 on September 30, 2003 at 02:59 AM
Heathcliff gets his revenge
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Drew Fulton
To Heathcliff, Little Catherine Linton serves as a replacement of her mother, whom was never able to marry and always loved. When Catherine Earnshaw married Edgar Linton, Heathcliff’s life was destroyed and he disappeared for many years. Shortly after his return, his childhood friend and love, Catherine, died in childbirth,...
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Posted by afulton on September 30, 2003 at 02:42 AM
Heathcliff's Transformation
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jannelle Richardson
Bronte shifts the point of view to expand and develop Heathcliff’s character. His character is important to the progression of the novel, however he remains mysterious. Throughout the novel the reader is forced to understand Heathcliff through other characters such as Mrs. Linton, who calls Heathcliff a “naughty swearing boy”...
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Posted by jrichar2 on September 30, 2003 at 02:04 AM
Isabella as a catalyst for Heathcliff's revenge
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Emily Sheffield
The shift in the narration from Nelly to Isabella in chapter 13 does not solely demonstrate Isabella’s poor condition (she is in absolute despair), it more importantly provides the reader with a first-hand account of Heathcliff’s transformation into a vindictive, manipulative revenge-seeker. Nelly could not give such a detailed and...
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Posted by esheffie on September 30, 2003 at 01:44 AM
A Spirit Lives On
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Ryan Hurd
Cathy does indeed become a continuation of her dead mother by expressing almost identical feelings towards Heathcliff for his cruelty and insensitivity. Once Cathy’s mother dies she comes into this world with her mother’s spirit present and thriving inside of her. We now see Cathy as an appendage of her...
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Posted by rhurd on September 30, 2003 at 01:40 AM
Your mom...
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Kendall Brown
In the later part of the novel, Cathy both continues and improves upon the memory of her mother. As the elder Catherine fades towards the end of the novel, a new Catherine is forming within her; a being that will both delight and aggravate those who love her most. Although...
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Posted by kbrown2 on September 30, 2003 at 01:24 AM
The Times They Are A-Changin'
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Greg Pearson
Catherine, who throughout much of the second half of the novel bears an unnatural resemblance to her mother, breaks from this mold when she agrees to marry Linton (209-210). And even though both marriages are not predicated on love, the motives behind each differ in ways that are important to...
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Posted by gpearson on September 30, 2003 at 01:17 AM
Unforgiving Isabella
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Chris Johnson
Bronte uses Isabella’s letter to let the reader experience the story (and Heathcliff in particular) from the position of someone who cannot forgive the indiscretions of others - even though that someone is not entirely blameless for those indiscretions occurring in the first place! Forgiveness is a constant theme in...
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Posted by cjohnso2 on September 30, 2003 at 01:12 AM
Like Mother, Like Daughter
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Matthew Roy
Little Cathy has clearly taken the place of her mother by carrying out the strong, compassionate character role. Seeing these traits in Cathy, Heathcliff tries to hold onto the past by controlling her and keeping her at Wuthering Heights, unlike what he was able to do with her mother. Even...
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Posted by mroy on September 30, 2003 at 12:48 AM
A Means to an End
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jim Light
Throughout literature, the demise of minor characters has often been used to illustrate the nature of evil in the world. Blind to the “innocent”, evil can destroy even the most pious of characters. Isabella has the ill-fated fortune of symbolizing that injustice, and even more tragic is the first-person narrative...
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Posted by jlight on September 30, 2003 at 12:24 AM
The Catherine Trait
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Eric Davich
Both Catherines claim to fall in love with men who they do not seem to have legitimate affection for. In addition to multiple other ridiculous reasons to love Edgar Linton, Catherine Earnshaw says she loves him, “because, he loves me” (61). Although this statement might seem like a legitimate reason...
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Posted by edavich on September 30, 2003 at 12:19 AM
Irreplaceable, Continuous Catherine
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Alex Krippner
Little Catherine does not replace the presence of her mother—the elder Catherine was too great a presence in the hearts of all who loved her for even her daughter to fill the position she left when she died. Both Heathcliff and Linton view the young Catherine as quite a separate...
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Posted by kkrippne on September 30, 2003 at 12:17 AM
Narrator Shift Provides Crediblity
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Eli Maitland
The portion of the story in which Isabella takes over as the narrator serves to give credibility to Nelly, the original narrator. In our first blog, we questioned whether Nelly had any sort of hidden agenda, and whether she was a trustworthy story teller. This shift in narration provides us...
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Posted by emaitlan on September 30, 2003 at 12:17 AM
Uprising
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Dro Joseney
I’ve watched and read a lot of narratives and one thing that they all have in common is that whenever there is a new cycle, you can expect change. If there is a dominating figure that persecutes one generation, then the next generation will be subject to the same persecution...
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Posted by cjoseney on September 30, 2003 at 12:16 AM
Catherine Reborn
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Aki Makino
The role of little Catherine is a continuation of her mother. Although she “didn’t once think of loving him (Linton)“ (175), she nevertheless had had an argument with Nelly about love, which resulted in a disappointment for her. The scene on page 175 is an exact repetition of the...
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Posted by amakino on September 30, 2003 at 12:02 AM
Heaven in the Heath on top of Wuthering Heights
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Sophie Wiss
By involving a second generation in the story of Wuthering Heights, the intense relationships of the first are relived by parallel characters, but the center of the love triangle is able to carry out her true desires. Catherine having died without speaking of either Edgar or Heathcliff, we are...
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Posted by swiss on September 29, 2003 at 11:51 PM
A Revival of Torment
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Frank Chi
The consistent theme of ambivalence among the female protagonists continues through younger Catherine. Her mother’s dilemma over loyalty again reflects in younger Catherine as she finds herself torn between her unusual attraction to Linton and her ailing father. Thus, younger Catherine revives the cruel familial rivalry between Wuthering Heights...
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Posted by fchi on September 29, 2003 at 11:41 PM
The Perfect Haunt
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Katie Mitterling
Distraught over Catherine’s death, Heathcliff growls to her, "'Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad!'"(130), attempting to cling to his humanity which slips away with her last breath. Heathcliff's prayers (or nightmares) are answered in the form of Cathy; however, she proves an inadequate replacement for Catherine. While...
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Posted by kmitterl on September 29, 2003 at 11:35 PM
Our "True" Devotion
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jade Dunn
When I remove myself, and my own feelings from the passions of this story, it appears to me that each one of us should feel an overpowering PITY for the character Isabella, but I guarantee you, we never will. In comparison to the empathy and the torture that we are...
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Posted by jdunn2 on September 29, 2003 at 11:26 PM
Isabella’s POV Supports Nelly’s Narration
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Ged Wieschhoff
Isabella’s point of view in the story is used to defend the veracity of the narration. Bronte schematically switches to Isabella’s point of view in chapter 13 as a means to denounce any doubts that the reader may have about the truthfulness of Nelly’s story. All along Nelly has...
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Posted by gwieschh on September 29, 2003 at 11:19 PM
Catherine's replacement
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Erica Michel
Young Catherine has indeed replaced the place of her mother with her strong character and her relationship with Heathcliff. When young Catherine first meets Linton she is appalled by his weakness, and Catherine was often frustrated with Edgar’s lack of strength. It was also clear that Catherine was in...
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Posted by emichel on September 29, 2003 at 11:11 PM
Cathy: Replacement and Continuation
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Andrew Morrison
Cathy not only replaces her mother, but she is also a continuation of her presence. It simply depends on which character’s point of view one considers. To Edgar Linton, Cathy is most certainly a replacement for his deceased wife. As Nelly states, “He recalled her memory with ardent, tender love,...
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Posted by amorriso on September 29, 2003 at 11:05 PM
Heathcliff's True Nature
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Kelsey Hughes
In Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, Isabella acts as a young lady that means well, but unfortunately involves herself with Heathcliff. At the beginning of this novel, the reader believes that Heathcliff is a charming, sweet, but poor boy that loses the love of his life due to his lack of both...
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Posted by khughes2 on September 29, 2003 at 10:56 PM
Inheriting forgiveness
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Merrie Railsback
It seems that Catherine is in fact continuing her mother’s presence, yet has become the more compassionate presence that her mother became only on her death bed. Young Catherine seems to really care for people. She has a very close relationship with both her father and Nelly, the type of...
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Posted by mrailsba on September 29, 2003 at 10:50 PM
Nelly's Literary Ally
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Taneisha Wilson
In chapter 13 Bronte shifts the narrative point of view to that of Isabella in order to leave no doubt in the reader’s mind as to Heathcliff’s atrocious behavior. Before Isabella stepped in to tell her story it was Nelly’s job to convince not only the reader, but also Lockwood...
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Posted by twilson on September 29, 2003 at 09:49 PM
Isabella's Purpose
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Alix Roy
By introducing Isabella as a narrator in chapter 13 we as readers are able to gain insight into life at Wuthering Heights. Since Nelly remains the housekeeper at Thrushcross Grange, and is the primary narrator of the story, Isabella is our sole source of information on this topic. Her letter...
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Posted by aroy on September 29, 2003 at 09:25 PM
Little Cathy is a growth of her mother’s character
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Emily Hubbard
Little Catherine shows obvious traits of her mother but she displays more depth as a person. She begins as somewhat of a mirror image of her mother- being very whiny and disrespectful. Particularly when it comes to Nelly, little Cathy can be very demanding. She once said to Nelly,...
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Posted by emichel on September 29, 2003 at 09:22 PM
Little Catherine's Forgiveness
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Meghan Gillis
In the eyes of Heathcliff, little Catherine is viewed as a continued presence of her mother. He attempts to control the lives of Linton and little Catherine like that of a puppeteer performing a show for his own amusement. The younger generation serves as a second chance for the treachery...
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Posted by mgillis on September 29, 2003 at 07:53 PM
Defeat by Forgiveness
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Britta Bene
Little Cathy continues her mother’s presence while changing in the process. Both characters had lively dispositions and a willingness to forgive. Yet this ability to pardon ultimately leads mother and daughter into defeat. When the older Catherine was finally able to forgive Heathcliff, it was almost too late. However, she...
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Posted by bbene on September 29, 2003 at 06:33 PM
romantic hero?
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Tasha Graff
Bronte develops the character of Isabella to play out a somewhat stereotypical teenage girl. Isabella thinks of Heathcliff as a romantic hero. At the beginning of the novel, Heathcliff does have a mysterious aura about him; the reader gets the impression of an unshaven, unkempt, handsome man. Catherine is the...
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Posted by tgraff on September 29, 2003 at 05:27 PM
Heathcliff's Transformation To Villainy
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Dan Yingst
Isabella’s assumption of the role of narrator in chapter 13 allows Bronte to transform Heathcliff from someone who we sympathize with as a victim into the victimizing villain of the novel. Until this part of the novel Heathcliff still has some vestiges of humanity that enable him to occupy...
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Posted by dyingst on September 29, 2003 at 05:20 PM
Like mother, like daughter
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Ryan Helminiak
If ever the faults of the mother are to recycle themselves in the life of the daughter, it happens with Catherine and Cathy. The spirits of the two are undeniably similar as both show "a capacity for intense attachments" (146) and a strong propensity to endure relationships that serve only...
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Posted by rhelmini on September 29, 2003 at 04:50 PM
Isabella's Frame for Young Catherine
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Kira Chappelle
While Wuthering Heights is narrated almost entirely by Nelly, chapter 13 is told from the point of view of Isabella Linton, who has recently married Heathcliff, in the form of a letter to Nelly. Isabella recounts her first day at Wuthering Heights and her desperate regrets for moving across the...
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Posted by kchappel on September 29, 2003 at 03:20 PM
Can little Catherine escape the fateful cycle?
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Nicole Colucci
Little Catherine reveals many of her mother’s traits; however, their personalities diverge as the younger embarks on womanhood. While it seems that the characters in Wuthering Heights are fated to fall prey to the tragic cycles that plague each family, little Catherine displays the potential to escape. Nelly, who...
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Posted by ncolucci on September 29, 2003 at 10:34 AM
Cut Off Your Nose to Spite Your Face
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Niki Alvarez
Little Cathy does indeed replace her mother, yet in some passages she definitely is her mother’s child. Little Cathy was a peaceful, non-problematic child, while her mother, Catherine, was a hellion on wheels. Little Cathy restores Thrushcross Grange to a peaceful atmosphere by obeying her father and overall being “soft...
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Posted by nalvarez on September 28, 2003 at 08:55 PM
Naivety and Nonchalance
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Molly McCarter
Catherine boldness echoes that of her mother’s. The Catherines in this novel are unique in that they are the only characters who are not only not afraid of Heathcliff, but attempt to sympathize with him. Young Catherine has far more contempt for Heathcliff than her mother did, but they...
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Posted by mmccarte on September 28, 2003 at 08:40 PM
One in the Same
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Jason Lewis
The young Cathy, who bears a striking character resemblance to her mother, seems to continue the presence of the departed Earnshaw rather than serve as a mere replacement for her namesake. From the onset, Cathy serves as a target of Heathcliff’s persistent goal to avenge Catherine’s betrayal. Heathcliff openly displays...
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Posted by jlewis2 on September 28, 2003 at 08:08 PM
effects of the past on the future
Category: 03 Blog: Wuthering Heights | Torri Parker
Little Catherine replaces her mother's presence in her thought processes along with her life altering decisions. Little Catherine was forced into marriage but not into falling in love, whereas her mother had the ability to choose if she would marry Edgar, but was forced to love him. She replaces the...
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Posted by cparker on September 27, 2003 at 03:53 PM