"Cliff Notes - Wuthering Heights" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cliff Notes)with the transformed Heathcliff. Cathy and Edgar, are both
enraged, but for different reasons. Although Heathcliff thinks that Isabella is silly and weak, he pursues her in order to get revenge on Edgar and, perhaps, to get her property. Shortly after, Cathy falls ill. Delirious with fever, she imagines herself back with the young Heathcliff. While she lies ill, he and Isabella elope. By the time the newlyweds return to live at Wuthering Heights, Cathy is sufficiently recovered to recognize Heathcliff when he sneaks into her room one day. Each accuses the other of betraying their love. That night Cathy dies in premature childbirth. When Heathcliff learns of her death, he beats his head against a tree and begs her ghost to haunt him. Meanwhile, Isabella's love for Heathcliff has turned to hate. The day after Cathy's funeral, Isabella flees to Thrushcross Grange to confide her troubles in Ellen. Hindley, driven mad by the knowledge that he gambled away his property to Heathcliff, had tried to kill him the night before. In the ensuing struggle, Heathcliff had seriously injured Hindley. Isabella escapes to the south of England, and six months later Hindley dies. Twelve years pass. Hareton, Hindley's son, grows up at his ignorance and bad temper. Cathy and Edgar's daughter, also named Catherine, grows up at Thrushcross Grange, where Edgar gives her the love he once lavished on his wife. Cathy's told nothing about Wuthering Heights or Heathcliff. Edgar hears that his sister Isabella is dying, and goes south to see her and the son, Linton, she bore not long after leaving Heathcliff. Edgar brings Linton home to Thrushcross Grange after Isabella dies, but the next day Heathcliff claims his son. Cathy doesn't see Linton again until three years later, when she meets Heathcliff for the first time. Heathcliff takes Cathy to Wuthering Heights, where she is briefly reunited with Linton. Heathcliff tells Ellen that he intends the two to marry. Despite Edgar's ban on communication between the two households, Cathy secretly exchanges love letters with Linton until Ellen finds out and puts a stop to it. The next time Cathy runs into Heathcliff, he tells her that Linton is dying of love for her, but when she goes to see him, they fight. Heathcliff has turned Linton's natural peevishness into maliciousness. Cathy continues secretly to see the boy, however. Edgar is dying, and fears for Cathy's future. Since he has |
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