Monday, December 1, 2008
Wuthering Heights Good Ending
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
MTV WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Chapter 21 And My Reflections
Reading Notes | Reflection notes |
1. “If I consent to burn them, will you promise faithfully, neither to send nor receive a letter again, nor a book (for I perceive you have sent him books), nor locks of hair, nor rings, nor playthings?” (214) 2. “You will know hereafter, darling, why I wish you to avoid his house and family; now, return to your old employments and amusements, and think no more about them!” (210) 3. “That the two cousins may fall in love, and get married. I’m acting generously to your master: his young chit has no expectations, and should she second my wishes, and she’ll be provided for at once as joint successor with Linton. If Linton died, his property would go to me;” (202) 4. “What Linton!” cried Cathy, kindling into joyful surprise at the name. “Is that little Linton? He’s taller than I am! Are you Linton?” (203) |
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Saturday, November 15, 2008
Legal Aspects of Wuthering Heights
I felt that C P Sanger’s idea about how Heathcliff getting Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights was very confusing, because I believe that he over examined the situation. I don’t believe that Emily Bronte thought of this when she was writing the novel Wuthering Heights, I think she was thinking of something darker and evil that Heathcliff had done to get both these lands, Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. But I still enjoyed C P Sanger’s very accurate and interesting research on the legal aspects of Heathcliff getting the lands and how he inherited. Especially when he used the evidence that there wasn’t the Inheritance Act of 1834, and the Wills Act of 1837 during the time Emily Bronte wrote Wuthering Heights. C P Sanger explains that the Inheritance act was when a family member dies and the belongings go to the son first and than any male who is blood related to that person. According to the inheritance act none of the land goes to the woman. This shows how women were not as important as men and looked upon as a minority. But I don’t agree it is fair and equal to look at women the way they did during those times at Wuthering Heights. C P Sanger says that Isabella couldn’t inherit the land, Thrushcross Grange, left by her brother Edgar Linton, instead her son Linton Heathcliff owned the land because Linton Heathcliff was a male. But he was too young to own the land. This is when I found the article very fascinating and amazing because the only person that can own the land is Heathcliff himself because he is the father of Linton Heathcliff and Heathcliff is old enough to own the land. This showed C P Sanger’s sharp observations and it made me keep my eyes open throughout the whole book for observations that lead to other ideas like this. The way the article showed how Heathcliff could get Thrushcross was very scary and frightening because so far in the book Heathcliff just owns Wuthering Heights through his money, but he hasn’t gotten Thrushcross Grange. I don’t want to think how Heathcliff will run Thrushcross because my senses say that it will be a nightmare and a big dreadful mess. I enjoyed how Sanger explained how Heathcliff got richer than ever before, and this time it was through Edgar’s will. Edgar Linton had saved out of his rents to make a provision for his daughter, Catherine. When Edgar was about to die, he wanted to alter his will to settle his money on Catherine for life and then for her children. I believe that can be true because Edgar didn’t want any of the money to get into Heathcliff’s hands. Heathcliff with more power would causes catastrophe and disaster on both manors. According to Sanger’s observations Edgar wanted an attorney to alter his will, but Edgar dies before his will is altered, so the money passes to Catherine and then to her husband, Linton. Linton was forced to leave it all to Heathcliff, probably because Heathcliff pressured or even threatened Linton. I went crazy when all the money ended up to Heathcliff because now Heathcliff has the ability to control anyone he wants because he has all the power. That really scares me because Heathcliff is a very evil and malicious man. After all, I can tell that Sanger had put a lot of work and analysis on Wuthering Heights to tie up all these loose ends about how Heathcliff got rich and got Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange legally. This article was fun to read and unique because it may be the answer to all Heathcliff’s hidden mysteries!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Brad Barton and Aren Dabaghian
Ms. Marootian
Honors English II
3 November 2008
Ghost Chapter
Heathcliff embarked on the long three-day journey to Liverpool. Heathcliff fled from Wuthering Heights because he heard that his one only love, Catherine, doesn’t want to marry him because it will degrade her. Heathcliff’s main goal was to search for his long lost parents, who threw him out on the streets of Liverpool. He started his journey at in the center of a storm, and his progress was slowed. Heathcliff had to find shelter to sleep in and take a rest.
Heathcliff luckily found a family willing to let him board at their house at the outskirts of Yorkshire. The Family had a father named William and a mother named Jill. The family one son named Mike.
“Good evening,” said Jill.
“I am looking for a place to stay for the night,” replied Heathcliff.
“You can stay here as long as you don’t mess any thing up,” said William. “So where are you headed.”
“I am off to Liverpool,” replied Heathcliff.
“That is a very long journey,” said Jill.
“I am in search of my parents,” said Heathcliff.
“Well, in all of Liverpool,” said William, “that will be hard.”
Heathcliff answered back frustrated, “I don’t care how long the trip is, I just want to go to sleep!”
Heathcliff woke up in the morning, and no one was awake. Heathcliff knew he had to continue his journey to reach Liverpool quickly. He decided to take some food for breakfast and surplus food for the journey without consent and immediately left. As his journey progressed Heathcliff became more aware of the commotion he had caused at the Grange and especially at Wuthering Heights. But he would not let anything interfere with his one main goal, finding his parents.
He finally reached Liverpool after three days of the long and difficult trek. He went to the city hall to find if his parents were even alive. After he was given the address he immediately got to work searching for his parents. He arrived at an immense wooden mansion; a gated yard and an immense driveway laid in front of the mansion, his parents dining by candlelight at a beautiful dinner table with a butler at their side and diamond chandelier watching over them. The fireplace was trimmed with pure gold and had a warm fire blazing in side. Heathcliff would have loved to be in there.
He knocked on the door. “Who is that,” scowled the butler.
“Heathcliff,” replied Heathcliff.
“Go away, I know of no Heathcliffs.”
Quickly remembering that he was not named Heathcliff by his parents, he replied, “Tell the folks inside that their son that they threw on the streets of Liverpool and never came back to get is here.”
“They have no son, go away.”
“Please have them come to the door.”
“All right”
When his parents came to the door, they did not recognize him. They would not even let him stay at their mansion. He was too dirty. He went back into the city to lodge at an abandoned hotel. The hotel had fell to a fire in the last year and no one had gone into it until now. He stayed in Liverpool for a few years working in the police force and getting into shape. When he got tired of Liverpool and couldn’t stand another day without Catherine, he left Liverpool and went to his parent’s house one last time.
They were not there when he arrived and neither was the butler. He broke through the window. He took whatever he could find. He took money, diamonds, and gold. He quickly left through the window through which he came in, and headed back to Wuthering Heights; rich, happy, and eager to see Catherine.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Puppy Love or True Love? By: Aren Dabaghian
Puppy Love or True Love? By: Aren Dabaghian
In the novel, Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte has written and depicted the imagery of Heathcliff living with the Earnshaws. Emily descriptively describes the harsh life that Heathcliff goes through when Mr. Earnshaw passes away, and Wuthering Heights is controlled by Mr. Hindley. Through these harsh times for Heatcliff, Catherine was gone with the Lintons because she was being healed from the bite of their guard dog. The books controversial issue is that if Heathcliff had a real love towards Catherine, or was it just puppy love throughout the whole book. Through these lonely times, I believe that Heathcliff was truly in love with Catherine because he had showed his love through his emotions, speech, and thoughts.
During the times that Heathcliff was with Catherine he would always be happy because he felt united and close to Cathy. Both of them would always laugh during the sermons that Joseph gave because they believed his sermons were really amusing and funny. They would always run away from Wuthering Heights to play at the open land together and be together as much as they can, so Hindley couldn’t separate them. One time they went to go to the Linton’s Thrushcross Grange, to spy on them and make fun of them. Catherine was so amazed by all the beautiful equipment that Thrushcross Grange had, and all the pretty clothes they wore. But Heathcliff seeing this said “I’d not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton’s at Thrushcross Grange” Heathcliff just showed that his love with Catherine is so bountiful and real that he doesn’t even want to live in luxury, as long as he is with Catherine he felt warm and unified. Even when Heathcliff was all alone he had lost part of his life, Catherine, he wanted to always see Catherine in front of him. Heathcliff said to Nelly “She is so immeasurably superior to them – to everybody on earth, is she not Nelly? Heathcliff would ask Nelly how Catherine was feeling at Thrushcross Grange. From all these quotes and written work by Emily Bronte shows Heathcliff’s love growing through his emotions, speech, and thoughts, and this is what I call true love!