Wuthering Heights Blog #1

What does the writing reveal about the author's values and attitudes? From what perspective does he/she write? I think Emily's writing shows that she values two totally different things: love and discipline. Her attitude seems dark, given all the violence going on in Wuthering Heights. Emily writes in first person, switching the narrator throughout the story. In chapter three, we see Emily's value of love when Lockwood describes his dream to Heathcliff of a ghost knocking on his window. Heathcliff starts crying and says, "'Cathy, do come. Oh, do-once more! Oh! my heart's darling! hear me this time, Catherine, at last!'" (pg:29 p:1). Lockwood is the narrator until chapter four when he meets Mrs. Dean and she tells Lockwood stories of Heathcliff. The second value Emily shows in chapter four is discipline-at least a contorted version of it. Mrs. Dean tells Lockwood about the time Mr. Earnshaw brought the orphan, Heathcliff, home. No one wanted Heathcliffe there. Mrs Dean says, "'They entirely refused to have it in bed with them, or even in their rooms; and I had no more sense, so i put it on the landing of the stairs, hoping it might be gone on the morrow.'" (pg:37 p:2).