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• Stimulus--Response -- Reinforcement.
• Stimulus is that which can elicit, stimulate or trigger some
kind of behavior from an organism.
• Response is the immediate reaction of the organism to
stimulus.
• Stimulus------ Response link is repeated frequently------
habit.
• Reinforcement serves to make the response as being
appropriate or inappropriate and encourages the repetition
or suppression of the response.
There are two possible
conditions:
• If the learner's response is appropriate It will be
positively reinforced, it will be learned.
Wuthering Heights
(Chapter 3)
University of Al-Qadisiyah/ College of Education/ Department of English
Wuthering Heights Chapter 3
The ledge, where ‘An awful Sunday’. . . .‘I wish my father were back again.
Hindley is a detestable substitute—his conduct to
Heathcliff is atrocious—H. and I are going to rebel—we
I placed my
took our initiatory step this evening.’ (Page: 24)
Asst. Lect. Haneen Raisan during which her cruel older brother Hindley forces
few mildewed
her and Heathcliff to endure Joseph’s three-hour
sermon. Catherine and Heathcliff seem to have
been very close, and Hindley seems to have hated
it was covered
with writing
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Just before falling asleep, Lockwood sees a book
‘How little did I dream that Hindley would ever make me entitled, Seventy Times Seven, and the First of the
cry so!' she wrote. 'My head aches, till I cannot keep it on
Seventy-First. A Pious Discourse delivered by the
the pillow; and still I can't give over. Poor Heathcliff!
Reverend Jabes Branderham, in the Chapel of
Hindley calls him a vagabond, and won't let him sit with
Gimmerdon Sough. Catherine does not prefer such type
us, nor eat with us any more; and, he says, he and I must
of books. In spite of this, in her childhood, she was
not play together, and threatens to turn him out of the
house if we break his orders. He has been blaming our
forced to read such books by Joseph, the pious servant,
father (how dared he?) for treating H. too liberally; and as a form of punishment.
Jabes retaliates crying, “Thou art the man!” naming the ultimate sin as thinking that anything is unforgivable.
To absolve Lockwood of his sin, the audience attacks him with their pilgrim’s staves. Lockwood does not have a
weapon, but he starts wrestling with Joseph. Most of the blows do not land on Lockwood, but on other members of
This part of the dream symbolizes how laying blame on others hurts everyone around, just as it has hurt the
residents of both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange for generations.
At this point, Lockwood is half-asleep, so it is unclear whether the next part is reality or a dream.
When Lockwood is unable to open the window to stop the rapping sound, he sticks his hands through the
glass. When he reaches for the branch, his hands instead wrap around icy, cold fingers. He asks, “Who are
you?” and the answer is “Catherine Linton”. A ghostly child claiming to “have been a waif for twenty years”
and requesting in a melancholy voice, “Let me in—let me in!” Unable to pull his hands away, Lockwood
begins rubbing Catherine’s wrist against the broken glass until it bleeds. He justifies what he has done by
Once he is released, Lockwood piles books against the hole. When they begin to fall, he screams. His
crying out draws Heathcliff into the room. Heathcliff curses Lockwood for being in the room and threatens
Zillah for taking Lockwood there. Lockwood declares that the room is haunted by Catherine’s ghost. As he
leaves the room, he notices that Heathcliff is distraught by the mention of the name “Catherine” and is
imploring the spirit to return because he has had no supernatural signs of her in a long time, and he now
believes she is in his home. He bursts into an uncontrollable passion of tears, sobbing “Come in! Come in! . .
. Cathy do come. . . . Oh! My heart’s darling; hear me this time . . .”
Lockwood spends the rest of the night in the back-kitchen. In the morning, Heathcliff treats his
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daughter-in-law cruelly. Lockwood returns to Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff shows him the way home, and
IMPORTANT FACTS ABOUT THIS CHAPTER
In this chapter, readers gain the first bit of insight A crucial question determines the source of
into the enigmatic main character, Heathcliff, Heathcliff ’s passion—is it Catherine or the act of
depending on Catherine’s diary which gives a revenge? Bronte presents the supernatural in this
description of Hindley’s treatment of Heathcliff. chapter, and readers need to determine if Catherine’s
Perhaps Heathcliff is the product of his environment, ghost has truly been a wandering waif for 20 years,
revolting against his tormentors. From Catherine’s waiting for Heathcliff, or if she is a vivid product of
viewpoint, Hindley is far worse a person than Lockwood’s imagination.
readers to maintain a constant vision of them. For novel, what he does, rubbing Catherine’s wrist against
example, in the first two chapters, Heathcliff seems to the broken glass until it bleeds is as cruel an action to
care about no one, but at the end of chapter 3, he is another as any other character in the text. Lockwood’s
obviously tormented about the loss of Catherine. interaction with Catherine’s ghost turns him from
Obviously, the man who is initially presented as cold being an outside observer into an active participant in