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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë
Contributed by Karim Chandra
Content
Overview
Context
Characters
Motifs
Themes
Symbols
Plot Summary
Chapter Summaries
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
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Chapter Summaries
Timeline
Chapter 4
Mr. Earnshaw decides to adopt Heathcliff, an orphan, and to raise Heathcliff in his estate Wuthering Heights.
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Cathy and Heathcliff spy on the wealthy estate of the Lintons, where Cathy is bitten by a dog. This event jumpstarts the bitter relationship between the families.
Chapter 6
Chapter 9
Edgar proposes to Cathy, Heathcliff runs away, and Cathy falls ill.
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Cathy decides to marry Edgar over her childhood friend Heathcliff. Meanwhile, Heathcliff returns to the estate of Wuthering Heights.
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Edgar and Heathcliff get into a scuffle, Cathy gets ill once again.
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Isabella, Edgar’s brother, elopes with Heathcliff.
Chapter 12
Chapter 16
Cathy dies in childbirth, giving birth to Catherine. Catherine is the daughter of Cathy and Edgar.
Chapter 16
Chapter 21
Catherine discovers Linton’s residence at Wuthering Heights. Linton is the child of Heathcliff and Isabella.
Chapter 21
Chaper 27
Heathcliff forces Catherine into a marriage with Linton as Edgar is dying.
Chapter 27
Chapter 31
Mr. Lockwood rents a room at Thrushcross Grange, learns of its relationship with Wuthering Heights, and witnesses the presence of Cathy’s ghost.
Chapter 31
Chapter 34
Mr. Lockwood further learns that Heathcliff has died and that Catherine and Hareton intend to get married on New Year’s Day.
Chapter 34
Chapter Summaries Table
Chapter Summary
Chapter 1
In this Chapter Mr. Lockwood, an interested tenant visits Wuthering Heights.  Wuthering Heights is a countryside estate in Rural England, a place cal...
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Chapter 2
Mr. Lockwood gets to Wuthering Heights when it is about to snow. Mr. Lockwood gets to a gate knocks and receives no response. He jumps over the barrie...
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Chapter 3
Zillah, the servant, gives Mr. Lockwood a candle and ushers him to a bedroom rarely used. In the bedroom once settled, Mr. Lockwood observes inscripti...
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Chapter 4
Upon reaching Thrushcross Grange, Mr. Lockwood wanted to know more about Wuthering Heights. Mrs. Dean who happened to have lived in Wuthering Heights ...
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Chapter 5
Earnshaw suffered ill-health. The question why Earnshaw had the preference for the orphaned boy extrapolated from the behavior of his children Cathy a...
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Chapter 6
Hindley returned from college to attend the father's funeral. He surprised family members when he responded with a wife called Frances. Frances hated ...
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Chapter 7
After five weeks in Thrushcross Grange Cathy was transformed into a lady acquiring the mannerism and dressing of the socialites. Heathcliff was ashame...
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Chapter 8
Tuberculosis consumed Hindley's wife, Frances. She died on Hindley's arms after giving birth to Hareton Earnshaw. Hindley never recovered his wife's d...
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Chapter 9
Hindley became bitter and frustrated by the death of his wife, Frances Earnshaw. He turned to drinking and became violent. His behavior became irratio...
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Chapter 10
Mr. Lockwood is still sick requiring bed rest and prods Mrs. Dean to narrate more information about Heathcliff and Cathy. Mr. Lockwood finds their sto...
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Chapter 11
Mrs. Dean sees a ghost of Hindley as a child. She decides to follow the ghost to Wuthering Heights. The ghost is the son of Hindley, Hareton. Hareton ...
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Chapter 12
Cathy has refused to eat, taking little portions in protest how Heathcliff treated. Master Edgar is locked in his study confused and wondering what to...
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Chapter 13
Isabella's decision to flee with Heathcliff comes at a high price. Isabella wrote a letter to Mrs. Dean confused if Heathcliff was a man or a devil sh...
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Chapter 14
Mrs. Dean visits Isabella in Wuthering Heights and gets shocked at the state of everybody else except Heathcliff.  Edgar's response to Isabella was c...
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Chapter 15
Edgar goes to church leaving Cathy in the house in Thrushcross. Mrs. Dean delivers the letter from Heathcliff to Cathy.  Heathcliff gets in through t...
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Chapter 16
Cathy dies while giving birth to Catherine. Cathy leaves Edgar with no male heir as the tradition demands. Edgar mourns Cathy. Cathy was right about h...
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Chapter 17
Isabella is pregnant and escapes to Thrushcross with a knife wound inflicted by Heathcliff in rage. Heathcliff blamed God for Cathy's death claiming, ...
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Chapter 18
Edgar receives an urgent letter from Isabella that she is sick and dying and needed someone to take care of her son Linton. Meanwhile, Catherine all a...
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Chapter 19
Isabella dies, and Edgar returns to Thrushcross Grange with the body and Linton. Linton is a weakling used to being pampered.  Catherine is excited a...
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Chapter 20
Linton was unhappy to leave Thrushcross Grange. Isabella his mother never talked about the boy's father. Mrs. Dean convinced the boy to get dressed up...
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Chapter 21
Mrs. Dean recalls a discussion she had with Zillah many years back. Heathcliff disliked Linton. His lack of sympathy made the boy "selfish and disagre...
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Chapter 22
Mrs. Dean and Catherine had a private chat one day in October. The purpose of their discussion was the deteriorating health of Edgar and the need to C...
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Chapter 23
Catherine and Mrs. Dean visit Wuthering Heights. Linton asks Catherine not to kiss him because a kiss makes him breathless. Heathcliff disliked the sl...
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Chapter 24
Michael, a servant, was instrumental in enabling Catherine to sneak out at night in exchange for books. Mrs. Caught Catherine is sneaking; forcing her...
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Chapter 25
Edgar death threatens, and he is the force to consider the future of the Lintons and Catherine. Lintons was persistent is writing letters to Edgar ask...
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Chapter 26
Catherine and Linton had developed a working relationship where each would travel only half the distance for their meeting. As Linton grew weaker and ...
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Chapter 27
Heathcliff has succeeded in piling pressure on Linton to marry Catherine. Heathcliff is interested in the inheritance knowing very well that Linton ha...
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Chapter 28
Mrs. Dean freed after the forced captivity. Unfortunately, she cannot find Catherine. Heathcliff has cleverly ensured that his plan executed without d...
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Chapter 29
Edgar funeral passes and Heathcliff visits Thrushcross Grange with Catherine to accompany her back to Wuthering Heights.  Heathcliff planned to rent ...
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Chapter 30
Mr. Lockwood rents Thrushcross from Heathcliff. Zillah and Mrs. Dean converse in low tones about the events at Wuthering Heights. Linton was unwell, a...
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Chapter 31
 Lockwood visits Wuthering Heights to meet Heathcliff.  He arrived at the gate and found it locked. He called it the "Jealous gate." Hareton saw Mr....
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Chapter 32
Mr. Lockwood while on a hunting trip opts to visit Wuthering Heights to settle his rental commitment. When he approached, he found the gate open. The ...
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Chapter 33
The story of Heathcliff's death followed some events. Catherine and Hareton annoyed Joseph having removed trees and planted a flower garden. Joseph re...
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Chapter 34
A strange illness seems to have consumed Heathcliff in his final days. He became restless, happy and unable to eat. Heathcliff becomes cheerful and br...
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