Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights

• Text Barnes Noble Classics Edition

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Chapter 3

• Discuss the scene in which Lockwood meets
  Catherines ghost.
• What is the purpose of this scene?
• p. 25.

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Chapters 5-6

• Discuss the childhood relationship between
  Heathcliff and Hindley (p. 39),
• Discuss the early relationship between Heathcliff
  and Catherine. Why was this a critical time in
  Heathcliffs life (p. 42)?

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Chapter 9

• Discuss the scene in which Catherine talks to
  Nelly about her feelings for Edgar Linton and
  Heathcliff (pp. 77-82).

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Chapter 11

• Discuss the confrontation between Edgar and
  Heathcliff. What does this scene reveal (pp.
  114-115)?
• Discuss Heathcliff and Isabellas marriage.

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Chapter 16

• Discuss the decline and death of Catherine (p.
  163).
• Is there resolution between Heathcliff and
  Catherine (p. 165)?

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Chapter 19

• Discuss Cathys early relationship with Linton
  (p. 196).

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Chapter 22

• How does Heathcliff exploit Catherine and Linton?

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Chapter 23

• Analyze Lintons character development in the
  scene in which he manipulates Cathy into staying
  with him (p. 233).

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Chapter 28

• Discuss Cathy and Lintons marriage
• (pp. 269-271).

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Chapter 29

• Discuss the scene in which Heathcliff visits
  Catherines grave.
• What arrangements does he make with the sexton?
• pp. 277-278.

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Chapter 32

• Discuss the reconciliation between Cathy and
  Hareton (p. 304).

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Chapter 34

• Discuss the death of Heathcliff (p. 323).
• Discuss the legacy of Catherine and Heathcliff
  (p. 325).

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Discuss the following themes

• The clash of economic interests and social
  classes.
• Striving for transcendence transcendence
  passing beyond a human limit, existing above and
  independent of this world.

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• The abusive patriarch and patriarchal family.
• Study of childhood and the family.

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• Is John Hagan right that "Wuthering Heights is
  such a remarkable work partly because it
  persuades us forcibly to pity victims and
  victimizers alike"?

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• The abusive patriarch and patriarchal family.
• Study of childhood and the family.
• The effects of intense suffering.