Childhood is shown to be a be a bitter experience in Wuthering Heights

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Mind Map on Childhood is shown to be a be a bitter experience in Wuthering Heights, created by s.ledgerwood on 23/04/2014.
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Childhood is shown to be a be a bitter experience in Wuthering Heights
  1. Childhood is important to plot and structure
    1. Nelly Dean's narrative insists on returning to when they were children.
      1. Children are focused upon
      2. Heathcliff
        1. foundling ---> son ----> resented
          1. revenge
          2. Rejected by Cathy
          3. Cathy I
            1. Death of Father
              1. inability to achieve behavioural maturity - becomes a double character
              2. Loss of soul mate
              3. Edgar and Isabella
                1. spoiled
                  1. serve to exaggerate the poor conditions at Wuthering Heights.
                    1. Isabella vs. Heathcliffe - highlight the extent of his damage.
                  2. Unease created by the inception of Heathcliff
                    1. adheres to gothic tradition - proper hierarchy is disrupted.
                      1. 18th century family values are disintegrated (patriarchal lineage)
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