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| Did you know that Voldemort (Ralph Finnes) once played Heathcliff?? |
NOTE: We'll spent two more days on the novel, but these will be the last questions I'll give you. Be sure to finish the novel, or get pretty close, by Wednesday. We'll have another in-class response to round it off then.
Answer two of the following:
Q1: How does Linton’s
character emerge in these chapters? Is
he another poor victim of Heathcliff’s tyranny?
Or a tyrannous, selfish character himself? How do Nelly and Cathy respond to him?
Q2: Does Nelly become more
‘reliable’ in these chapters as a narrator?
Does she have more flashes of self awareness—or at least a sense of her
own role in the story (rather as the mute observer she would often claim to
be)? Do you find yourself agreeing with
her more? Being less suspicious of
her?
Q3: Heathcliff emerges more
as a Gothic villain than ever in these chapters. How do we read his transformation? Has he been this way all along, or is Nelly
playing to her audience (Lockwood)? Do
these passages of Heathcliff ring true to you?
Q4: Consider the elaborate
‘doublings’ or echoes that occur in the book, with the new generation emulating
the old. Why is Heathcliff so intent on
creating a new Heathcliff (Hareton) and a new Catherine/Edgar (Cathy/Linton)
marriage? On a larger level, why might
Bronte have created this mirror-like world? How can we read the characters through their
previous (or subsequent) “others”?
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