Wuthering Heights Chapters 18-20

Wuthering Heights Chapters 18-20

1. Lockwood returns to WH

   • Nelly summoned back to WH
   • Heathcliff withdraws from everyone
   • Cathy gives Hareton a book
     • promises to teach him to read and never to mock him again
       • fall in love
       • avoid the mistakes of the first generation
     • begs for forgiveness
       • mirrors Catherine's plea for Heathcliff's forgiveness

2. Heathcliff loses his desire for revenge

   • Heathcliff is about to strike Cathy, but as he looks into her eyes and lets go
     • reminds him of Catherine
   • tormented by memories of Catherine
     • seeks solitude more and more often

3. Heathcliff dies

   • Cathy and Hareton will wed on New Year’s Day and move to TG
     • resolution of past troubles
     • Hareton represents a final renewal for the manor of WH
     • manifest all of the best qualities of their parents
     • merge the various conflicting aspects of WH and TG into a stronger whole
     • love conques hate
   • the end of life can means the beginning of his reunion with Catherine
   • rejects all religious notions of the afterlife
   • villagers claim that they have seen Catherine and Heathcliff’s ghosts
   • Lockwood imagines quiet slumbers for the persons that lie in such quiet earth