Wuthering+Heights+-+Books

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 * __Wuthering Heights theme by Isabella__

Books**  From her //diary “On Sunday evenings we used to be permitted to play, if we did not make much noise; now a mere twitter is sufficient to send us into corners!”.// From Catherine’s diary: (Page 48) //“He was, and is yet, the most likely, the wearisomest, self righteous pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to take the promises himself, and fling the curse on his neighbours”.// Nelly (Page 79 ): //“In the first place, he had, by that time, lost the benefit of his early education: continual hard work, begun soon and concluded late, had extinguished any curiousity he once possessed in pursuit of knowledge, and any love for books or learning”.// Nelly (Page 268)://“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?”// Cathy: //“I promise, Ellen!” she cried, catching my dress. “Oh put them in the fire, do, do!”// Nelly (Page 288): //“We were in the library, the master having been gone to bed: she consented, rather unwillingly, I fancied; and imagining my sort of books did not suit her, I bid her please herself in the choice of what she pursued”.// Cathy (Page 209): //“I preferred to give him my own, that satisfied him better”.// Cathy (Page 352): “//You must tell her’, she continued, ‘that I would answer her letter, but I have no materials for writing, not even a book from which I can tear a leaf”.// Lockwood: //“No books!’ I exclaimed, ‘ How do you contrive to live here without them? If I may take the liberty to inquire – Though provided with a large library, I’m frequently very dull at the Grange – take my books away and I shall be desperate!”//  ·  Hareton attempts to teach himself to read and to write, and thus keeps a secret stash of books in his room. He has decided to become educated for Cathy, and in turn chooses amongst her favourite to learn. Cathy mocks him for doing so, and this causes him to become angry and through them all into the fire. Cathy (Page 352): //“Hareton, I came across a secret stock in your room: some Latin and Greek, some tales of poetry… Yes, I hear him trying to spell and read to himself, what pretty blunders he makes!”// Nelly: //“He afterwards gathered the books and hurled them on the fire”.//  ·  Later, Cathy decides to teach Hareton how to read. This sparks their love for each other, and results in their marriage at the conclusion of the novel. Cathy (Page 360): //‘No, read over it first correctly, without a single mistake’// Lockwood: //“The male speaker began to read – he was a young man, respectably dressed, and seated at a table, having a book before him.”// As Nelly retells their story, it was the simple gift of a book from Cathy to Hareton that allowed him to forgive her for her ‘sauciness’ Nelly: //“Catherine employed herself in wrapping a handsome book neatly in white paper; and having tied it with a bit of ribband, and addressed it to ‘Mr Hareton Earnshaw’// Cathy: //“And tell him, if he’ll take it, I’ll come and teach him to read it right’, she said, ‘and, if he refuse it, I’ll go upstairs, and never tease him again.”//
 * Lockwood discovers a small library of books in Catherine Earnshaw’s old room at Wuthering Heights. (Page 23) ‘Catherine Earnshaw – her book”. He finds her personal diary, and reads it. The diary of Catherine is what sparks Lockwood’s interest to know all about her – //“An immediate interest kindled within me for the unknown Catherine, and I began, forthwith, to decipher her faded hieroglyphs”.//
 * Joseph takes the Bible very seriously, promoting the importance of books within the society in which the novel is set.
 * Heathcliff is not particularly fond of books, nor learning altogether. This is quite the opposite of Catherine.
 * Linton and Cathy correspond to each other through writing letters. This is their only form of communication, as Cathy has been banned from visiting her cousin, on account that Heathcliff is his father. The two develop their relationship using this form of correspondence. Yet, Nelly finds out and takes it all away.
 * Thrushcross Grange has a supposed large library of books, which has furthered the education of the Linton’s. From this, many of the Linton’s have a fond love of books and reading.
 * Cathy bribes a servant at the Grange, Michael, with books to let her pass and go visit Linton. This shows the importance of books within the society.
 * Cathy often lets Linton lend her ‘nicest’ books, and she reads to the sickly child. We deduce that she is very fond of books and reading, much like her mother, Catherine, was. (Page 294).
 * Whilst Cathy is locked up at Wuthering Heights, with no friends and Linton dead, and is saddened as she has nothing to read. Once she expresses this to Linton, he expresses his own feelings.