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Why was there a pile of dead rabbits? Does this have significance to the story itself?

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Do you think Heathcliff had a better life before or after her lived at Wuthering Heights?

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Originally, I thought Heathcliff simply looked different from the Earnshaws in that he was "a dirty, ragged, black-haired child" (Pg. 30).  Later on, as Nelly is comforting him, she says to him, "if you were a regular black" (Pg. 49).  So I started to search for any other indicators in the beginning of the story as to whether or not Heathcliff is black, due to his maltreatment in the Earnshaw family.  I have not been able to find any, so did the author, Emily Bronte, intend for Heathcliff to be portrayed as an African American to the reader?

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I noticed that the theme of being an outsider is constantly being highlighted by Emily Brontë. The setting of the novel, the home Wuthering Heights, seems to exist outside of the bounds of normal society and is marked as being very isolated and hard to reach. Whenever Heathcliff is first introduced he is likened to a gypsy, characterizing him as a wanderer with no real home. Even after Heathcliff lives with the Earnshaws as an adopted son, there still exists a separation between him and the rest of the family - with the exception of Catherine. I predict that the theme of being an outcast will be a focal point of this work.

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I think that the love between Heathcliff and Catherine was a bit weird because the two were legally brother and sister. I mean it probably would not have been illegal for the two to date or get married since they weren't blood related because Heathcliff was adopted; however, the love that is between the two of them is obviously stronger than a brother/sister type love.

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Why doesn't Mr. Earnshaw give Heathcliff the Earnshaw surname but gives him the first name of his dead son? I think it's odd because he's willing to attach the orphan boy to the family by his first name but not his last.

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As I was reading Maya's question, I thought a lot about what the pile of dead rabbits might signify in the story. To me, I saw the rabbits as a symbol of the lives of the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. In the beginning, Lockwood perceives these rabbits as harmless cats, and this symbolizes how Lockwood sees the people of Wuthering Heights during his first visit: although a little inhospitable to visitors or newcomers, not without their charms and pleasures. After closer inspection, however, Lockwood sees the cats for what they really are- a lifeless pile of rabbits. This shows how the people of Wuthering Heights truly live: a life devoid of meaning- which could be interpreted as lifelessness- as they wait to exit this world and enter the next.

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I found it interesting that the wife of Mr. Earnshaw's wife did not take on a maternal role of trying to comfort and nurse the "dirty, ragged, black-haired child" (Pg. 30). Instead she wanted to have the "gipsy brat" (Pg. 30) out of her house as soon as possible. This reaction to the poor, homeless boy contrasted Mr. Earnshaw's reaction of taking him home to provide for him as his own. Mr. Earnshaw was overly protective of the boy, Heathcliff, and showed favoritism towards him which made the other children jealous and angry. Mrs. Dean says that Heathcliff's presence created a "bad feeling in the house" (Pg. 31).

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I have noticed a sense of mystery throughout the entire novel. Without much insight into who the characters are or what their pasts reveal about them in the beginning, it is almost as though Mr. Lockwood is placing himself into a strange situation. The sense of mystery grows, and to me, it appears most when the ghost of Catherine Earnshaw shows up after Mr. Lockwood reads her journal. I believe the ghost plays a role into the story and symbolizes the idea that each character has a past that haunts them. Their past has defined who they are now, and why they are secluded and off-setting. I think Mr. Lockwood sets out to resolve the sense of mystery by having Nelly tell him the pasts of all the people he met at Wuthering Heights.

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I have observed in the first ten chapters of Wuthering Heights and found very interesting is how Emily Bronte includes the theme of the supernatural and gothic literature. In the title itself, "wuthering", means wild, exposed, storm-blown. With the stormy weather and being surrounded by moors the book has created a gothic and mysterious atmosphere. There are many events that stated that something or someone has passed away, and also there are ghosts that are present throughout the novel like the one Lockwood encountered in his room.

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In Wuthering Heights, I have noticed that there is an underlying bitterness in the Wuthering Heights household. At all times, at least one person that lives there is bitter, whether that be Hindley, or Heathcliff. Hindley is at first jealous of Heathcliff because Hindley's father, Mr. Earnshaw, favored Heathcliff. Then, once Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley simply tries to make Heathcliff's life horrible. Once Catherine dies, this then makes Heathcliff bitter because he now has nothing and no one to live for. So, ever since Mr. Earnshaw's death, the house of Wuthering Heights has been enveloped in tension and bitterness

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I love how there is a sense of the unknown present at the beginning of the novel. We meet the characters at the beginning with very little background knowledge of how they are related to each other. As I began to progress through Chapters 1-10, I began to connect the dots and figure out all of the characters relationships. Emily Bronte creates a sense of mystery and the unknown by not telling us how the characters are related at the beginning of the novel. Trying to figure out the characters at the beginning was like trying to know a stranger's story, but as the novel progresses I began to understand the characters and their stories

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It seems like there is some contradiction between what Lockwood says about things and what the reader actually sees to be true.  For example, Lockwood’s first impression of Heathcliff was that he was a good man but after seeing his actions, it is apparent that he is bitter and cruel.  Because of inconsistencies like this, I wonder how much of the story that we are being told is actually reliable and to what extent we can trust Lockwood’s reliability as a narrator.

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Throughout the novel, there is an stark contrast present between the two households, the Lintons and the Earnshaws. The Lintons are an overall polite and well kept family while the Earnshaws appear unkempt and act unaccordingly. This is evident when Cathrine returns from the Earnshaws after a few weeks of staying there. Before staying at the Grange, Cathrine is rude and childish; however, upon her return in chapter 7, Cathrine acts more proper and appropriate further highlighting the significant difference between the two familes.

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I have come to find out that Wuthering Heights is in fact a story told to Lockwood by Nelly. (which isn't what I was expecting at all) Throughout the first 10 chapters I have questioned myself- How reliable is Nelly as a narrator? As readers we have to take into account the source from which the story comes from. I have understood that Nellys recount fo the story of the Linton, Heathcliff, and Earnshaw families might be biased. We are constantly reading from a view of someone else, who is not detached from the families.

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Beginning with the hostility of the hounds toward Mr. Lockwood, the residence of the Heithcliffe household seem to never show the sense of hospitality that is normally given by the landlord to guests and new residence of their community. However, this view could be due to the biased narration of Lockwood by exaggerating not normal behavior into something more aggressively rude, yet Lockwood still pursues the strange history of the Heithcliffe household due to its hazy allure of unknown.

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What aspects of Heathcliff in comparison to Hindley made him a more admirable son to Mr. Earnshaw and a companion to Catherine? Is there anything that Hindley did to change the way people looked at him and why did he hate Heathcliff (in despise because he was not receiving as much attention)? Also did the death of the mother, Frances, have anything to do with this shift of attention towards Heathcliff?

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What is the purpose of Joseph's fanatical religio and why does it have so much sway with Mr. Earnshaw in his last moments? Why did Catherine and Heathcliff

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I have observed and find it interesting that Mr. Earnshaw shows favoritism to Heathcliff while the rest of the family hated him (besides Catherine after awhile) and wonder if maybe Heathcliff is Mr. Earnshaw’s illegitimate son.

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Do the dogs have any symbolic aspect to them? The dogs have only been seen by Lockwood in negative settings (forced to stay in a room with the hounds snarling at him and being attacked and pinned down by the dogs when leaving Wuthering Heights). Another dog is briefly mentioned when the Linton's guard dog chased and bit Catherine (another negative image of a dog).

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I find Catherine Earnshaw's relationship with Heathcliff very interesting, in that they both obviously feel very passionately for one another, but Catherine is greatly influenced by her social status. Before she is bit and forced to recover at Thrushcross Grange, Catherine and Heathcliff are inseparable. After she returns however, she says that he is dirty in comparison to the Linton children who she has grown accustomed to. Later, when Edgar Linton proposes to Catherine, she confides in Nelly that she believes that she and Heathcliff share a soul, but to marry him would only degrade herself after Hindly had cast him down so low. Catherine knows in her heart, that she should marry Heathcliff, but the allure of a socially prominent lifestyle leads her to choose Edgar instead.