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Ednas School

Dagupan City

High School Department

S.Y. 2012-2013

Literature III

Book Report

Submitted by:

Sweety Sangar

Submitted to:



Mrs. Nida G. Bonifacio

• Title: Wuthering Heights

• Genre: Romance

• Author: Emily Brontë

Emily Brontë was born on July 30, 1818 in Thornton, near Bradford inYorkshire, to Maria Branwell and Patrick Brontë. She is the third eldest of the

four surviving Brontë siblings, between Anne and Branwell, the youngest and

Emily’s brother respectively. She also uses a pen name of Ellis Bell. Her

literary works revolve around fiction and poetry. And she is best remembered

with her masterpiece novel entitled “Wuthering Heights” which was published

in 1847. She died on December 19, 1848 when she was still 30 years old

because of tuberculosis.

• Vocabulary

• Meaning

• Recuperation - to recover from illness.

• Blizzard - a storm of snow

• Gypsy - independent

• Moors - a tract of land

• Discord - disagreement or dispute

• Vows - personal commitment



• Attic - a part of house, particularly under the roof

• Despises - loathe or hate

• Mortgage - a conveyance of an interest in property as security

for the repayment of money borrowed.

• Elope - to run off to be married secretly

• Fugitive - a runaway

• Flee - to runaway from a place or person

• Tenancy - occupancy of land

• Landlord - a person who leases land

• Remote - situated at some distance away

• Sentence

• I took my vacation on our rest house to have my recuperation.

• A blizzard suddenly occurred when I was about to leave.

• I am a gypsy individual.

• Me and my friend used to play in a moors.

• Ian and Mara are having discord.

• Chris vows to Shyrene that he will love her in a lifetime.

• My grandmother used to place her stuffs in the attic.

• Mara despises Paul because of his weird actions.

• Andrei is fond of making mortgage.

• John and Maria decided to elope as soon as they have a chance to

do so.



• Lui is a fugitive.

• Sheila flees from Hong Kong.

• I wanted to share my tenancy to you.

• Our landlord is a gentleman.

• I wanted to experience camping in a remote area.

• Characters

• Mr. Lockwood – a rich man from the South who rented Thrushcross

Grange.

• Mr. Earnshaw - the father of Catherine and Hindley Earnshaw.

• Heathcliff - a gypsy man whom Mr. Earnshaw decided to adopt.

• Catherine Earnshaw- daughter of Mr. Earnshaw who intensely loves

Heathcliff but is married to Edgar Linton.

• Hindley Earnshaw - brother of Catherine and the son of Mr. Earnshaw

and is the husband of Frances.

• Frances Earnshaw - Hindley’s wife who soon dies after giving birth to

Hareton.

• Edgar Linton - Catherine’s husband and the father of the young

Catherine.

• Isabella Linton - Edgar’s sister and Heathcliff’s wife.

• Catherine Linton - the daughter of Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar

Linton who is engaged to Hareton.

• Hareton Earnshaw - the son of Hindley and Frances Earnshaw and the

soon to be wife of Catherin Linton.



• Linton - Heathcliff and Isabella’s son whom his father wants

to be married with Catherine Linton.

• Nelly Dean - the housekeeper; she also serves as the narrator.

• Joseph - a servant of Heathcliff.

• Setting: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcros Grange.

• Summary:

A rich man from the South named Mr. Lockwood had rented Thrushcross

Grange in the north of England for peace and recuperation. Afer his arrival,

he then visits the landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, who lives in a place called

Wuthering Heights which is a remote moorland farmhouse. As he visits the

place of Heathcliff, he noticed that the inhabitants there were strange: the

landlord looks like a gentleman but his manners and speech suggest

otherwise; the mistress of the house is in her late teens, an attractive but

reserved, even rude woman; and a young man who is a family member but

looks and speaks like a servant.

When Mr. Lockwood is about to leave in the Wuthering Heights, a blizzard

suddenly stroke the place making him feel very angry because no one wanted

to accompany him. With this event, he cursed the inhabitants of the place.

The housekeeper then leads him to a room which heathcliff has forbidden all

visitors to enter – that is the room of Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff real love.

When we fell asleep, he suffered a nightmare where he sees Catherine as a

ghost who is trying to get through the window. He wakes up and was not able

to return to sleep again until the sun finally rises and Heathcliff escorted him

back to Thrushcross Grange. After arriving, he then asks the housekeeper,

Nelly Dean, to tell him the story of the family from the Heights.

The story of Nelly begins thirty years before the Earnshaw family lived at

Wuthering Heights. One day, as the father of the Earnshaw family travels to

Liverpool, he finds a homeless gypsy boy whom he wanted to adopt and



nicknamed him as Heathcliff. The two children of Mr. Earnshaw, Catherine

and Hindley, hated the adopted son at first but Catherine get attached to

Heathcliff later. Soon, Heathcliff and Catherine are like twins, spending hours

with each other in the moors and hating every moments apart.

To cut the discord between Hindley and Heathcliff, Mr. Earnshaw sent the

former to college but returns after three years when Mr. Earnshwa dies.

Hindley then became the master of Wuthering Heights with her wife, Frances,

and force Heathcliff to become a servant.

Few months after Hindley’s return, Heathcliff and Catherine make their

way to Thrushcross Grange to watch the childish behavior of Edgar and

Isabella Linton, the children of the Grange. However, they were spotted and

Catherine having been caught by a dog in her ankle is brought inside while

Heathcliff is sent home.

After five weeks, Catherine returns to Wuthering Heights being changed

totally, who acted and looked as a lady thereof. She then laughs at

Heathcliff’s appearance but the latter dresses up, when the Lintons give a

visit, to impress the former. However, Heathcliff was still being teased by

Edgar who makes fun of him. Heathcliff, was locked in the attic, in the

evening, where Catherine climbs over the roof to comfort him. He vows to get

his revenge on Hindley.

In the summer of next year, Frances gives birth to a boy whom they called

as Hareton and then dies after giving birth. This happening turned Hindley to

swim with drunkenness and waste.

Two years on and Catherine has become close friends with Edgar,growing more distant from Heathcliff. One day in August, Edgar asked

Catherine to marry him and the latter accepted the proposal. Later, Catherine

confesses it to Nelly and Heathcliff heard the confession without their

knowledge. Heathcliff decided to run away making him unable to hear that he

was the one that Catherine really loves and not Edgar. As heathcliff leaves



the place, without any trace, after three years, Edgar and Catherine are

married.

After six months, Heathcliff returns as a wealthy gentleman making

Catherine delighted to see him being changed. Isabella, Edgar’s sister who

was at her eighteen during that time, falls madly inlove with Heatcliff. He

despises her but encourages the infatuation, seeing it as a chance to revenge

on Edgar. When he embraces Isabella at the Grange, Edgar argued which

caused Catherine to lock herself in her room and fall ill.

While Catherine is ill, Heathcliff elopes with Isabella, causing Edgar to

disown his sister. The fugitives marry and return two months later to

Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff hears that Catherine is ill and arranges with

Nelly to visit her in secret. In the early hours of the day after their meeting,

Catherine gives birth to her daughter Catherine and the mother then dies. The

day after the funeral of Catherine, Isabella flees Heathcliff and escapes to the

south of England where she eventually gives birth to Linton, Heathcliff’s son.

Hindley dies six months after his sister and Heathcliff finds himself the master

of Wuthering Heights and the guardian of Hareton.

Twelve years on, the young Catherine, has grown into a beautiful girl who

has rarely passed outside the boarders of the Grange. Edgar hears that

Isabella is dying and leaves to pick up her son with the intention of adopting

him. While he is gone, the young Catherine meets Hareton on the moors and

learns of her cousin and Wuthering Heights’ existence. Edgar returns with

Linton who is a weak and sickly boy. Although the young Catherine is

attracted to him, Heathcliff wants his son with him and insists on having him

taken to the Heights.

Three years later, Nelly and Catherine are on the moors when they

met Heathcliff, who takes them to Wuthering Heights to see Linton and

Hareton. His plans are for Linton and Catherine to marry so that he would

inherit Thrushcross Grange. Catherine and Linton begin a secret and



interrupted friendship. In august of the next year, while Edgar is very ill, Nelly

and Catherine visit Wuthering Heights and are held captives by Heathcliff,

who wants to marry his son to Catherine at the same time, prevent her from

returning to her father before he dies. After five days, Nelly is released and

Catherine escapes with Linton’s help just in time to see her father before he

dies.

With Heathcliff now the master of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross

Grange, Catherine has no choice but to leave Nelly and go to and live with

Heathcliff and Hareton. Linton dies soon afterwards and although Hareton

tries to be kind to her, she retreats into herself. This is the point of the story at

which Mr. Lockwood arrives.

After being ill, Lockwood decides that he had enough and traveled back to

Wuthering Heights again to inform Heathcliff that he is returning to the south.

After eight months, Lockwood decided to stay at Thrushcross Grange since it

is still September and his tenancy is valid until October. He then finds out that

Nelly is now living at Wuthering Heights and he makes his way there then and

fills in the rest of the story.

In March, Hareton had had an accident and been confined to the

farmhouse. This caused Catherine and Hareton to develop a friendship

between them. Meanwhile in April, Heathcliff acts strangely, seeing vision of

the old Catherine. He was then found dead by Nelly after four days of not

eating.his remains had been buried beside Catherine. And Nelly murmured to

Mr. Lockwood, about Heathcliff death and the wedding of Catherine and

Hareton on New Years’ Day.

As Mr. Lockwood hurriedly exits through the kitchen, he tossed a gold

sovereign to Joseph, who was a servant in Thrushcross Grange. He finds his

way to the churchyard where he discovers the graves of Edgar, Catherine

and Heathcliff.

• Reaction/Comment:



As I have read the novel, I appreciated it and felt the story itself. I was like in the

real scenario which allowed me to deeply feel it more than an ordinary reader can

do. The novel is a mirror to the author’s feeling. Although the novel is too long, I

never felt that I should stop reading it. I think, there is a good sense of thrill here that

made me read until the end of the story. Moreover, I personally find the book to be

strange; simply because of the mix features of it. Lastly, the novel is indeed a

masterpiece.

what are the srtenght weaknesess of the story--> a possible strength of the story

is that is can also happen in reality. thus, it makes the readers aware of what might

happen to them if they are full of hatred and jealousy.And it is also easy to

understand. On the contrary, the weakness of this novel is that there was a plateau

scenario when Catherine Linton and Hareton Earnshhaw just vanished. The readers

were no longer given a hint whether the two lived happily with each other or not.

will you recommend the book to your friends? why or why not? Definitely yes,

because it's a must read novel. It possesses a lot of moral values throughout the

novel. Such is seen when Mr. Earnshaw adopts a gypsy man.

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