It's me! Cathy, I've come home again. by

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"range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs

one way, as if craving the alms of the sun."

'sunshine into a desolate house’

rosie_alice — 2013-06-27 13:57:39 UTC

Cathy Linton appears to have a very positive effect on Thrushcross Grange. She is associated with new growth 'like a larch' something natural perhaps restoring the house after Catherine Linton's madness created the winter of for the house. ‘heath blossomed over Mrs Linton’s dust’ she represents the spring.

rosie_alice — 2013-06-27 14:00:31 UTC

"no signs of roasting, boiling or baking, nor any

glitter of copper saucepans and tin cullenders on

the walls."

rosie_alice — 2013-06-27 14:02:07 UTC

These quotes show that Wuthering heights comes across as an unfriendly place because the descriptions used are bleak. It focuses on what Wuthering Heights is lacking, rather than what it already has or any of the positive things about it. The weather description makes it somewhere people would avoid and feel unwelcome. The description of the windows suggests that Wuthering heights excludes people unlike thrush cross grange which welcomes people in.

Ponden Hall

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said to be inspiration for Thrushcross Grange

WUTHERING HEIGHTS MAP

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'Penistone Craggs particularly attracted her notice'

rosie_alice — 2013-07-01 12:05:37 UTC

Just as the older Catherine was drawn to the unknown elegance of Thrushcross Grange society, younger Cathy is drawn to what has been denied her, the natural world in which she invests a spiritual importance. 'when the setting sun shone on it' she see's Penistone Craggs as something godly and golden when in fact they are simply bare rocks. The 'pilgrimage' to these rocks has transitional property's, an introduction to the real world and perhaps an increased tendancy to her mother's personality in the deviousness displayed and her obsession with the moors and the Heights.

'she took her station by the lattice'

rosie_alice — 2013-07-02 11:06:19 UTC

Cathy's first visits present Wuthering Heights in a positive way, the main room is a 'clean room and a good fire', 'how nice it would be to play in.' The rosy view of the heights is highlighted by the narrative perspective purposefully brushing over negatives, and Cathy's naivety.

The Heights become a setting for Cathy's imprisonment 'fastened in' by Heathcliff, there is a big focus on doors, windows and exits in the descriptions reflecting Cathy's longing to leave.The image of her 'sitting crying, on the stairs top' gives a strong sense of the isolation and fear inspired by her enforced stay at Wuthering Heights. Cathy soon longs to return to the Grange. Her personality changes to reflect the harshness of her setting, the politeness of Grange society gone leaving her rude and silent towards Lockwood.

Connections are made between the generations through the setting of the Heights also, Cathy uses the same chair as her mother, her and Linton play with the toy's of Cathy and Heathcliff. The Heights 'architect had foresight to build it strong,' it is a continuing force that links the characters and perhaps burdens them to repeat the past particularly Cathy in her spiteful treatment of Hareton which so mirrors Heathcliff's fate.

In much the same way she has a positive impact on the Grange as a child she also serves to establish the idyllic setting of the Heights on Heathcliffs death, 'the fragrance of stocks and wall flowers' being one of the first improvements Lockwood notices, a garden planned by Cathy. The plants are from the Grange, as are the books and civilization brought to the Heights.

Penistone Craggs (Pondon Kirk)

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THRUSHCROSS GRANGE MAP

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rosie_alice — 2013-07-02 23:01:10 UTC

""Wuthering" being a significant provincial

adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric

tumult to which its station is exposed in

stormy weather"

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"a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and

crimson-covered chairs and tables, and a pure

white ceiling bordered with gold"

rosie_alice — 2013-07-02 23:15:23 UTC

'the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and

the corner defended with large jutting stones'

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'From dinner to tea she would lie in her breeze-rocked cradle...watching the birds, joint tenants, feed and entice their young ones to fly.'

rosie_alice — 2013-07-02 23:21:17 UTC

These quotes about Thrushcross Grange suggest there is a lot more freedom

than Wuthering Heights. Instead of stormy weather there is just "breeze".

The house is also described with 'crimson' and 'gold' which makes the enviroment

seem royal and glamorous compared with 'narrow windows' at the Heights. The two

settings seem to be very opposite with Wuthering Heights excluding people and Thrushcross inviting them in.

rosie_alice — 2013-07-03 08:08:50 UTC

Linton Heathcliff

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(1797, aged 12) [Linton] was asleep in a corner, wrapped in a warm, fur-lined cloak, as if it had been winter. A pale, delicate, effeminate boy, who might have been taken for [Edgar's] younger brother, so strong was the resemblance: but there was a sickly peevishness in his aspect that Edgar Linton never had.

rosie_alice — 2013-07-03 08:15:47 UTC

(1801) 'Linton can play the little tyrant well. He'll undertake to torture any number of cats, if their teeth be drawn and their claws pared.'

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'Linton's looks and movements were very languid, and his form extremely slight; but there was a grace in his manner that mitigated these defects, and rendered him not unpleasing'

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'He said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till eevening on a bannk of heath in the middle fo the moors.'

rosie_alice — 2013-07-03 08:19:31 UTC

By these quotes you can see that Linton Heathcliff has aspects of both the Grange and Wuthering Heights. Linton occasionally resembles Catherine's (mothers) spirit of adventure and love for the moors in the way that they are described as being an idyllic heaven for him. However he has also inherited elements of Linton's (fathers) pleasantries and 'civilised' manner. The way in which the book ends with Linton Heathcliff being taught by Cathy shows a union between the two places and achieves what Cathy (elder) was attempting, by trying to reform Heathcliff.

rosie_alice — 2013-07-03 08:22:02 UTC

"The abrupt descent of Penistone Crags particularly attracted her notice; especially when the setting sun shone on it and the topmost heights, and the whole extent of landscape besides lay in shadow. I explained that they were bare masses of stone, with hardly enough earth in their clefts to nourish a stunted tree." - Ellen and Cathy have very different outlooks on the Crags - the contrast between something beautiful, full of promise, which Cathy belives the Crags to be, and something unable to grow life, which Ellen sees as the reality.

rosie_alice — 2013-07-03 08:27:34 UTC

'Is Wuthering Heights as pleasant a place as Thrushcross Grange?' he inquired, turning to take a last glance into the valley, whence a light mist mounted and formed a fleecy cloud on the skirts of the blue.
'It is not so buried in trees,' I replied, 'and it is not quite so large, but you can see the country beautifully all round; and the air is healthier for you—fresher and drier. You will, perhaps, think the building old and dark at first; though it is a respectable house: the next best in the neighbourhood.' - trying to describe Wuthering Heights to Linton as if it is not a place of seculsion and is as freeing as Thrushcross Grange, however it is not.

rosie_alice — 2013-07-03 08:28:37 UTC

The moors

rosie_alice — 2013-07-03 08:31:37 UTC

The moors symbolise different things to different people...

rosie_alice — 2013-07-03 08:33:26 UTC

For Lockwood, the moors are confusing, perhaps even hinting at danger, or danger of the unknown. 'One billowy white ocean' (after the snow).

To Catherine and Heathcliff, the moors are a place of escape, comfort, mysticism, and even romance. It is a place which symbolises freedom.

'I'm sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills.'

rosie_alice — 2013-07-03 08:36:30 UTC

It is a place where Catherine can find herself and she can identify with them.