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Title: Chapter summaries of 'Wuthering Heights'
Description: These notes are for a sixth form class studying 'Wuthering Heights'. The notes summarise every chapter in the novel, highlighting the most important events as well as embedding some quotations.
Description: These notes are for a sixth form class studying 'Wuthering Heights'. The notes summarise every chapter in the novel, highlighting the most important events as well as embedding some quotations.
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Chapter Summaries of ‘Wuthering Heights’
Chapter One:
• Mr Lockwood visits Wuthering Heights to see his Land Lord
• The dogs make sure he feels unwelcome
• Mr Lockwood then returns home
Chapter Two:
• Unpleasant weather, ‘snow shower’ ‘black frost’
• Mr Lockwood returns to Wuthering Heights
• Even though he it met with ‘doors barred’ he still insists on entering
• The character of Cathy is introduced
• He witnesses dispute between Cathy and Joseph
• Mr Lockwood is forced to spend the night due to bad weather
Chapter Three:
• Mr Lockwood was put in a room by the housekeeper that is forbidden by
Heathcliff
• Odd things are discovered in the room – ‘Catherine Earnshaw’
‘Catherine Heathcliff’ ‘Catherine Linton’
• Lockwood reads some of Catherine’s diary
• Lockwood falls asleep and dreams about Catherine’s ghost
• Heathcliff enters the room and calls for her – “Come in! Come in!”
• Heated dispute between Catherine and Heathcliff – ‘Heathcliff lifted his
hand!’
• Lockwood then leaves
Chapter Four:
• Introduction of Nelly (Mrs Dean) – begins to tell Lockwood the story
behind Wuthering Heights
• The characters of Mr Earnshaw, Hindley and Catherine are introduced
• Mr Earnshaw informs them of the child he found – Heathcliff
• Hindley hates Heathcliff already – physical aggression between the two
Chapter Five:
• Mr Earnshaw falls ill – ‘he died quietly in his chair one October evening’
• ‘Miss Cathy had been sick’ foreboding
• Morn the loss of Mr Earnshaw
Chapter Six:
• Hindley comes home for funeral – brings his wife Frances
• ‘Hindley in a passion told us to bolt the doors’
• Heathcliff returns without Catherine – she’s at Thrushcross Grange
• Heathcliff tells Nelly the story of him and Catherine visiting Thrushcross
Grange – Catherine gets bitten by a dog, the Linton’s take Catherine
inside but forbid Heathcliff from entering
• Hindley tells Heathcliff if he speaks to Catherine again he will be
dismissed
Chapter Seven:
• Catherine returns five weeks later
• She’s changed and become a Lady
• However, when she sees Heathcliff it is clear her feelings haven’t
changed-‐ ‘bestowed seven or eight kisses on his cheek within the
second’
• Catherine then laughs at him for being so dirty – Heathcliff gets
offended and leaves, later he asks Nelly to make him ‘decent’
• Hindley forbids Heathcliff to join them for supper
• Edgar angers Heathcliff – Heathcliff pours ‘hot apple-‐sauce-‐ over him
• Catherine sticks up for Heathcliff and ensures he gets fed
• Heathcliff starts to think how he will take revenge on Hindley
• Nelly skips the story to the next summer – 1778 (23 years ago)
Chapter Eight:
• Hareton is born
• Frances dies
• Jealousy is created between Heathcliff and the Linton’s (Edgar)
• Edgar witnesses Catherine’s violent side as she pinches Nelly
• Catherine begs Edgar not to leave her and he choses to stay because he
is powerless to leave her
Chapter Nine:
• Catherine informs Nelly she’s accepted Edgar’s proposal
• Heathcliff over hears Catherine say, “It would degrade me to marry
Heathcliff now
...
”
• Edgar, Catherine and Nelly all move to Thrushcross Grange
Chapter Ten:
• Catherine and Nelly settle into their new home
• Heathcliff pays a visit
• Catherine is overjoyed to see him in comparison to Edgar
• Heathcliff has become Mr Heathcliff = became a gentleman
• Isabella falls for Heathcliff – he realises he can use her as part of his
revenge
Chapter Eleven:
• Nelly sees Hareton who throws stones and curses at her
• Heathcliff learns how he can get his revenge
• Heathcliff and Edgar have a fight
• Catherine throws the key into the fire – symbolic for giving her heart
away
Chapter Twelve:
• Isabella is moping around
• Catherine locks herself away – refuses to eat, believes she’s dying
• Catherine’s health deteriorates – becomes feverish
• Edgar sees Catherine
• Isabella runs off with Heathcliff
Chapter Thirteen:
• Catherine learns she has become pregnant
• Isabella sends a letter begging for forgiveness – Edgar ignores it
Chapter Fourteen:
• Nelly visits Wuthering Heights
• Heathcliff appears well in contrast to Isabella
• Heathcliff informs Nelly he won’t let Catherine alone – even though
Nelly warns him, “Another encounter between you and the master will
kill her altogether!”
• Heathcliff brags that his love for Catherine is far greater than Edgar’s
• Heathcliff directs all his anger at Isabella – “She’s degenerated into a
mere slut!” “She even disgraces the name of Linton
Title: Chapter summaries of 'Wuthering Heights'
Description: These notes are for a sixth form class studying 'Wuthering Heights'. The notes summarise every chapter in the novel, highlighting the most important events as well as embedding some quotations.
Description: These notes are for a sixth form class studying 'Wuthering Heights'. The notes summarise every chapter in the novel, highlighting the most important events as well as embedding some quotations.