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Title: Notes on Nelly from 'Wuthering Heights'
Description: These are sixth form notes on the character Nelly from 'Wuthering Heights'. They compare how she is as a narrator and how she is as a servant. As well as mentioning her significance and quotes that are important to her character.

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Nelly  
 
 
Narrator  

•   One  sided,  e
...
 Catherine  
•   Goes  between  the  two  houses    
•   Manipulative  –  imposes  her  
own  views    
•   Confident  –  divulges  the  
information  willingly  

•  

•  
•  

•   Directly/indirectly  
interferences    

•  

•   Gives  the  story  substance  and  
credence    

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Servant  
Grows  up  with  the  characters  –  
not  just  a  servant,  similar  in  
age  means  authority  is  
minimised    
Governess  role  for  Hareton  
and  guiding  Cathy  figure    
Self  importance  –  how  she  
presents  herself    
Surrogate  mother  –  ‘mother  
goose’    
Blurs  boundaries  –  confident,  
oversteps  the  mark    
Educated  and  articulate    
Servant  of  the  text    

 
Significance  of  Nelly’s  narrative:    
 
•   Doesn’t  make  cultural  mistakes    
•   More  empathetic  with  the  characters    
•   Written  with  an  educated  manner    
•   Occupies  a  unique  cultural  position:  doesn’t  share  a  regional  dialect  with  
the  other  servants  although  she  understands  them  perfectly,  access  to  a  
range  of  discourses  that  might  be  considered  ‘beyond  her  kin’    
 
Nelly’s  guesses  about  the  internal  states  and  opinions  of  the  following  three  
characters:    
 
Heathcliff;    
•   At  one  with  nature  (sympathy  for  him)    
•   “a  silent  combat  with  his  inward  agony”    
•   ‘Your  pride  cannot  blind  God’    
 
Catherine;    
•   at  peace  (with  God)    
•   imagines  a  place  where  life  is  boundless    

•   The  body  asserted  ‘it’s  own  tranquillity’    

 
God;  
•   Thinks  Catherine  should  be  in  Heaven  –  Heathcliff  belongs  in  Hell    
•   Influenced  by  class  system    
 
Quotes  by  Nelly:    
 
•   “Far  better  that  she  should  be  dead,  than  lingering  a  burden,  and  a  
misery-­‐maker  to  all  about  her
...
”  
•   “You’re  hard  to  please  –  so  many  friends  and  so  few  cares,  and  can’t  
make  yourself  content!”    
•   “You  have  no  right  to  nip  me,  and  I’m  not  going  to  bear  it!”    


Title: Notes on Nelly from 'Wuthering Heights'
Description: These are sixth form notes on the character Nelly from 'Wuthering Heights'. They compare how she is as a narrator and how she is as a servant. As well as mentioning her significance and quotes that are important to her character.