Monday, April 7, 2014

What is the significance of Lockwoods dream, and the subsequent reaction of Heathcliffe and his character development.

Lockwood dreams invite the idea of the spirit of Catherine as a child into her chambers.  In the story "Wuthering Heights" Catherine has been dead for a while.  However, when Lockwood sleeps in her chambers he wakes to a child's spirit.  The spirit grabs his arm causing him to pull it forward.  He sees the spirit cut her arm on the window glass and the next day there is blood.


The other dream has to do with Lockwood finding Catherine Earnshaw's diary.  He is frightened and when he jumps he knocks over the candle.  While cleaning it up, he comes across her diary.   By finding the diary it seems as if Catherine's spirit is reaching out from the grave.


I do not have my book in front of me, so I am not sure which dream came first, but I believe the second one that I wrote about happened first.

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