MTV WUTHERING HEIGHTS

This movie is he worst movie I have ever in my life. The movie had so many differences than than the novel. For example, it was all modernized, and it made Edgar look like the bad guy and Heathcliff look like the good guy. This movie had destroyed the plot of the book, by the modernization and the setting of the movie. Why would you modernize the book? It just made the movie lose it's main point about love, and it lost it's power to show the good events in the book. What's with all this stupid music. I hated especially when Heathcliff became a musician, where did that come from. The acting was very horrible, and they would skip so many parts of the book, even the major parts of the book. It looked like this movie had a VERY LOW BUDGET, and they tried to rush the move just to finish it. All the love going on was very boring and dull, and stop with all this music. If Emily Bronte saw this movie she would probably sue MTV for 1,000,000,000 dollars for ruining her book. Just because it was made from MTV doesn't give them the right to put music, MTV made it like musical with all the music going all around. The main point should be  about the passionate love. Why was Isabella a very snobby rich girl, where did that come from? This movie couldn't even show the chracters personalities, they couldn't even put this dark setting. Instead they put a happy setting on the beach. THIS MOVIE WAS HORRIBLE

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)

This quote shows how angry Nelly has gotten at little Cathy because after her father, Edgar, told her not to talk to her cousins because Heathcliff may do something bad or evil to Thrushcross Grange. I could tell that Cathy’s love was so strong and true that she couldn’t stop talking to Linton, even after her father told her to not have any communications with her cousins at Wuthering Heights. I liked Nelly’s discipline because she told Catherine either she was going to burn the love letters that Cathy had written and received from Linton or Nelly was going to tell Edgar about these love letters. Nelly showed her strictness, which I really enjoyed reading. After all Nelly got Cathy to stop writing letters because they both agreed on burning the letters. It was kind of sad to see the love letters all burn because for Cathy and Linton those letter meant so much to them emotionally, because they had true love toward each other. I love this quote because it shows how much hatred there is still pending between Edgar and Heathcliff after Catherine, little Cathy’s, mother died, and when Heathcliff married Isabella, Edgar’s sister, without really loving her because he wanted to own Thrushcross through Linton their son. Edgar explained Heathcliff’s plan to get Thrushcross to little Cathy, so he can show her how evil Mr. Heathcliff is. Edgar was so angry and annoyed just by even talking about Heathcliff to young Catherine. I can tell that Edgar just wants peace and happiness to be left forever in young Cathy and in Thrushcross Grange. This quote also shows Edgar’s love and care for Cathy so she may live in joy and not in sadness and not in sorrow like her mother.   Oh I hate how Heathcliff just blurts out his plan to get Thrushcross. I just want to beat him up, for the way he wants to have power. He shows his evil and malicious ways and this disgusts me. Heathcliff wants to make Linton, his son, and young Cathy marry each other, because Linton will die soon from his sickness and all the land from Thrushcross will go to himself, because Edgar will also be dead. I detest Heathcliff for his malevolent plans, and his spiteful personality. Heathcliff has changed a lot from the past and now he is more evil than the devil.   I love this quote because it shows the happiness coming from young Cathy to her favorite cousin that she misses from her childhood, Linton. I love how they both together are happy to see each other and feel close to each other. This quote for me shows the beginning of their love relationship because they finally met again and they were both very excited to see each other. Cathy couldn’t even believe how tall and handsome Linton has gotten. Cathy is now noticing Linton’s looks this shows how she is really attracted to Linton, and I believe together they feel united as a whole. The beginning of a new and true love!

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!

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.