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Wuthering Heights Questions & Answers: Prepared By: Mr. Adel Hussein
Wuthering Heights Questions & Answers: Prepared By: Mr. Adel Hussein
Wuthering Heights
Questions & answers
1- What is Lockwood's relationship to Heathcliff?
Lockwood is renting Thrushcross Grange, which Heathcliff owns. Thus, their
relationship is one of a landlord and his tenant. At the beginning of the novel,
Lockwood has not met Heathcliff and decides to visit him at Wuthering
Heights. It is this encounter which provides the basis for the rest of the story.
5- How did Catherine’s feelings towards Heathcliff change after her visit
to the grange?
Catherine has stayed at the grange for five weeks. She returned to the heights
quite a dazzling young lady, much improved in manners. She greeted Heathcliff
enthusiastically, but allowed him to see that his dirtiness disturbed her. Her
10- Nelly noticed that Heathcliff affected Harleton’s life badly. Explain
briefly.
Nelly revealed that Heathcliff had brought up Hareton, the rightful heir of the
Earnshaws, as a common labourer. He has denied him en education, and generally
degraded him to the level of a rough, uncivilised boor. It is a piece of his
personal revenge from Hindley.
15-What are the main conflicts in Wuthering Heights and how do they
relate to the novel's themes?
Heathcliff love each other deeply and would love to get married, but
Heathcliff, degraded to a farmhand by his older stepbrother Hindley, makes
that an unrealistic possibility. Catherine does the practical thing and marries
the rich man in the neighbourhood, Edgar Linton.