Catherine, at first, splits her time between Heathcliff and Edgar, but soon she spends more time with Edgar, which makes Heathcliff jealous. When Heathcliff overhears Catherine tell Nelly that she can never marry him Heathcliff , he leaves Wuthering Heights and is gone for three years. While he is gone, Catherine continues to court and ends up marrying Edgar. Their happiness is short-lived because they are from two different worlds, and their relationship is strained further when Heathcliff returns.
Relationships are complicated even more as Heathcliff winds up living with his enemy, Hindley and Hindley's son, Hareton , at Wuthering Heights and marries Isabella, Edgar's sister. Soon after Heathcliff's marriage, Catherine gives birth to Edgar's daughter, Cathy, and dies.
Heathcliff vows revenge and does not care who he hurts while executing it. Like an 18th-century Bonnie and Clyde, with extra-fruity language for good measure, they range over the north of England, pulling off schemes and scams and sending Heathcliff inexorably to his destiny and the pot of cash which will allow him to return to Wuthering Heights a new man.
But before he gets there, he will have to do something terrible…. And I knew I had to get this right. There was something about that which bothered Stewart from the off. And why did he go on foot? There was a carriage from Keighley to Liverpool, and we know from the novel he had two horses. The only thing I could think of was that he was travelling incognito. It was then that I realised that at that time Liverpool was one of the biggest slave ports in Europe.
Was Earnshaw going to procure a slave to work on his farm? And this was an important time as slavery was becoming frowned upon and there was a growing movement to have it banned. Heathcliff and Cathy end up bonding and become even greater allies after Mr. Earnshaw dies. They experience some idyllic childhood moments on the moors. When Catherine is bitten by a dog, she stays at the Grange for five weeks to recuperate. The separation is anguish for Heathcliff.
Hindley begins treating Heathcliff like a servant. Deprived of an education and treated brutally, Heathcliff is left bitter and uncivilized. Heathcliff vows revenge against Hindley. Despite himself, Heathcliff rescues Hareton, Hindley's son, from certain death. Heathcliff overhears Catherine tell Nelly that it would degrade her to marry him.
He splits for three years. Heathcliff returns with money and some respectability, though no one knows where he has been. She does not allow Edgar to comfort either her or himself with a false sense of hope or security. Edgar nurses Catherine tenderly and attentively as best he can, but is he doing this out of love for his wife or the child she is bearing?
Without an heir, Isabella would inherit Thrushcross Grange in the event of Edgar's death. Because Isabella is married to Heathcliff, that means Edgar's rival would essentially inherit Edgar's property. Edgar does not want this to happen. While Edgar is nursing Catherine, readers get a view of Heathcliff from Isabella's perspective. Her letter to Nelly narrates the events that have transpired from the time she eloped.
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