Ednas School

Dagupan City High School Department

S.Y. 2012-2013

Literature III
Book Report

Submitted by: Sweety Sangar

Submitted to:

Mrs. Nida G. Bonifacio

Title: Genre: Author:

Wuthering Heights Romance Emily Bront

Emily Bront was born on July 30, 1818 in Thornton, near Bradford in Yorkshire, to Maria Branwell and Patrick Bront. She is the third eldest of the four surviving Bront siblings, between Anne and Branwell, the youngest and Emilys brother respectively. She also uses a pen name of Ellis Bell. Her literary works revolve around fiction and poetry. And she is best remembered with her masterpiece novel entitled Wuthering Heights which was published in 1847. She died on December 19, 1848 when she was still 30 years old because of tuberculosis. Vocabulary Meaning Recuperation - to recover from illness. Blizzard Gypsy Moors Discord Vows - a storm of snow - independent - a tract of land - disagreement or dispute - personal commitment

 Attic Despises Mortgage

- a part of house, particularly under the roof - loathe or hate - a conveyance of an interest in property as security

for the repayment of money borrowed. Elope Fugitive Flee Tenancy Landlord Remote Sentence I took my vacation on our rest house to have my recuperation. A blizzard suddenly occurred when I was about to leave. I am a gypsy individual. Me and my friend used to play in a moors. Ian and Mara are having discord. Chris vows to Shyrene that he will love her in a lifetime. My grandmother used to place her stuffs in the attic. Mara despises Paul because of his weird actions. Andrei is fond of making mortgage. John and Maria decided to elope as soon as they have a chance to do so. - to run off to be married secretly - a runaway - to runaway from a place or person - occupancy of land - a person who leases land - situated at some distance away

 Lui is a fugitive. Sheila flees from Hong Kong. I wanted to share my tenancy to you. Our landlord is a gentleman. I wanted to experience camping in a remote area. Characters Mr. Lockwood Grange. Mr. Earnshaw Heathcliff - the father of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw. - a gypsy man whom Mr. Earnshaw decided to adopt. a rich man from the South who rented Thrushcross

Catherine Earnshaw- daughter of Mr. Earnshaw who intensely loves Heathcliff but is married to Edgar Linton.

Hindley Earnshaw - brother of Catherine and the son of Mr. Earnshaw and is the husband of Frances.

Frances Earnshaw - Hindleys wife who soon dies after giving birth to Hareton.

Edgar Linton Catherine.

- Catherines husband and the father of the young

Isabella Linton Catherine Linton

- Edgars sister and Heathcliffs wife. - the daughter of Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar

Linton who is engaged to Hareton. Hareton Earnshaw - the son of Hindley and Frances Earnshaw and the soon to be wife of Catherin Linton.

Linton

- Heathcliff and Isabellas son whom his father wants

to be married with Catherine Linton. Nelly Dean Joseph - the housekeeper; she also serves as the narrator. - a servant of Heathcliff.

Setting:

Wuthering Heights and Thrushcros Grange.

Summary: A rich man from the South named Mr. Lockwood had rented Thrushcross Grange in the north of England for peace and recuperation. Afer his arrival, he then visits the landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, who lives in a place called Wuthering Heights which is a remote moorland farmhouse. As he visits the place of Heathcliff, he noticed that the inhabitants there were strange: the landlord looks like a gentleman but his manners and speech suggest otherwise; the mistress of the house is in her late teens, an attractive but reserved, even rude woman; and a young man who is a family member but looks and speaks like a servant. When Mr. Lockwood is about to leave in the Wuthering Heights, a blizzard suddenly stroke the place making him feel very angry because no one wanted to accompany him. With this event, he cursed the inhabitants of the place. The housekeeper then leads him to a room which heathcliff has forbidden all visitors to enter that is the room of Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff real love. When we fell asleep, he suffered a nightmare where he sees Catherine as a ghost who is trying to get through the window. He wakes up and was not able to return to sleep again until the sun finally rises and Heathcliff escorted him back to Thrushcross Grange. After arriving, he then asks the housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him the story of the family from the Heights. The story of Nelly begins thirty years before the Earnshaw family lived at Wuthering Heights. One day, as the father of the Earnshaw family travels to Liverpool, he finds a homeless gypsy boy whom he wanted to adopt and

nicknamed him as Heathcliff. The two children of Mr. Earnshaw, Catherine and Hindley, hated the adopted son at first but Catherine get attached to Heathcliff later. Soon, Heathcliff and Catherine are like twins, spending hours with each other in the moors and hating every moments apart. To cut the discord between Hindley and Heathcliff, Mr. Earnshaw sent the former to college but returns after three years when Mr. Earnshwa dies. Hindley then became the master of Wuthering Heights with her wife, Frances, and force Heathcliff to become a servant. Few months after Hindleys return, Heathcliff and Catherine make their way to Thrushcross Grange to watch the childish behavior of Edgar and Isabella Linton, the children of the Grange. However, they were spotted and Catherine having been caught by a dog in her ankle is brought inside while Heathcliff is sent home. After five weeks, Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights being changed totally, who acted and looked as a lady thereof. She then laughs at Heathcliffs appearance but the latter dresses up, when the Lintons give a visit, to impress the former. However, Heathcliff was still being teased by Edgar who makes fun of him. Heathcliff, was locked in the attic, in the evening, where Catherine climbs over the roof to comfort him. He vows to get his revenge on Hindley. In the summer of next year, Frances gives birth to a boy whom they called as Hareton and then dies after giving birth. This happening turned Hindley to swim with drunkenness and waste. Two years on and Catherine has become close friends with Edgar, growing more distant from Heathcliff. One day in August, Edgar asked Catherine to marry him and the latter accepted the proposal. Later, Catherine confesses it to Nelly and Heathcliff heard the confession without their knowledge. Heathcliff decided to run away making him unable to hear that he was the one that Catherine really loves and not Edgar. As heathcliff leaves

the place, without any trace, after three years, Edgar and Catherine are married. After six months, Heathcliff returns as a wealthy gentleman making Catherine delighted to see him being changed. Isabella, Edgars sister who was at her eighteen during that time, falls madly inlove with Heatcliff. He despises her but encourages the infatuation, seeing it as a chance to revenge on Edgar. When he embraces Isabella at the Grange, Edgar argued which caused Catherine to lock herself in her room and fall ill. While Catherine is ill, Heathcliff elopes with Isabella, causing Edgar to disown his sister. The fugitives marry and return two months later to Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff hears that Catherine is ill and arranges with Nelly to visit her in secret. In the early hours of the day after their meeting, Catherine gives birth to her daughter Catherine and the mother then dies. The day after the funeral of Catherine, Isabella flees Heathcliff and escapes to the south of England where she eventually gives birth to Linton, Heathcliffs son. Hindley dies six months after his sister and Heathcliff finds himself the master of Wuthering Heights and the guardian of Hareton. Twelve years on, the young Catherine, has grown into a beautiful girl who has rarely passed outside the boarders of the Grange. Edgar hears that Isabella is dying and leaves to pick up her son with the intention of adopting him. While he is gone, the young Catherine meets Hareton on the moors and learns of her cousin and Wuthering Heights existence. Edgar returns with Linton who is a weak and sickly boy. Although the young Catherine is attracted to him, Heathcliff wants his son with him and insists on having him taken to the Heights. Three years later, Nelly and Catherine are on the moors when they met Heathcliff, who takes them to Wuthering Heights to see Linton and Hareton. His plans are for Linton and Catherine to marry so that he would inherit Thrushcross Grange. Catherine and Linton begin a secret and

interrupted friendship. In august of the next year, while Edgar is very ill, Nelly and Catherine visit Wuthering Heights and are held captives by Heathcliff, who wants to marry his son to Catherine at the same time, prevent her from returning to her father before he dies. After five days, Nelly is released and Catherine escapes with Lintons help just in time to see her father before he dies. With Heathcliff now the master of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, Catherine has no choice but to leave Nelly and go to and live with Heathcliff and Hareton. Linton dies soon afterwards and although Hareton tries to be kind to her, she retreats into herself. This is the point of the story at which Mr. Lockwood arrives. After being ill, Lockwood decides that he had enough and traveled back to Wuthering Heights again to inform Heathcliff that he is returning to the south. After eight months, Lockwood decided to stay at Thrushcross Grange since it is still September and his tenancy is valid until October. He then finds out that Nelly is now living at Wuthering Heights and he makes his way there then and fills in the rest of the story. In March, Hareton had had an accident and been confined to the farmhouse. This caused Catherine and Hareton to develop a friendship between them. Meanwhile in April, Heathcliff acts strangely, seeing vision of the old Catherine. He was then found dead by Nelly after four days of not eating.his remains had been buried beside Catherine. And Nelly murmured to Mr. Lockwood, about Heathcliff death and the wedding of Catherine and Hareton on New Years Day. As Mr. Lockwood hurriedly exits through the kitchen, he tossed a gold sovereign to Joseph, who was a servant in Thrushcross Grange. He finds his way to the churchyard where he discovers the graves of Edgar, Catherine and Heathcliff. Reaction/Comment:

As I have read the novel, I appreciated it and felt the story itself. I was like in the real scenario which allowed me to deeply feel it more than an ordinary reader can do. The novel is a mirror to the authors feeling. Although the novel is too long, I never felt that I should stop reading it. I think, there is a good sense of thrill here that made me read until the end of the story. Moreover, I personally find the book to be strange; simply because of the mix features of it. Lastly, the novel is indeed a masterpiece. what are the srtenght weaknesess of the story--> a possible strength of the story is that is can also happen in reality. thus, it makes the readers aware of what might happen to them if they are full of hatred and jealousy.And it is also easy to understand. On the contrary, the weakness of this novel is that there was a plateau scenario when Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshhaw just vanished. The readers were no longer given a hint whether the two lived happily with each other or not. will you recommend the book to your friends? why or why not? Definitely yes, because it's a must read novel. It possesses a lot of moral values throughout the novel. Such is seen when Mr. Earnshaw adopts a gypsy man.