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| Character | Catherine???? | |
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| Gender | Female | |
| Age Range(s) | Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50) | |
| Type of monologue / Character is | Persuasive | |
| Type | Dramatic | |
| Year | 1847 | |
| Period | 19th Century | |
| Genre | Romance, Family, Drama | |
| Description | Catherine tries to persuade Isabella that Heathcliff is not the right man for her | |
| Location | Chapter X | |
Summary
The story is set in 1801 in an isolated moor country in the north of England. Lockwood, one of the narrators of the story, rents a manor, Thrushcross Grange, from a mysterious wealthy landlord, Heathcliff, who lives in a manor in Wuthering Heights. From his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, Lockwood learns the story of the families that lived in those manors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons. Heathcliff was adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, who brings him home after a trip to Liverpool. Heathcliff becomes part of the family that also includes Catherine and Hindley. Even if they both dislike him at the beginning, Catherine and Heathcliff soon become inseparable and the passionate love between them is the main focus of the story.
After Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley inherits the manor and he mistreats Heathcliff. Catherine, despite loving Heathcliff, marries her rich neighbor, Edgar Linton, to find security. Heathcliff decides to leave and comes back after three years, having become mysteriously rich. He sets about seeking revenge and sets his sights on Isabella, Edgar's sister.
In this monologue Catherine tries to persuade that Heathcliff is not the right man for her. He is a cruel and "pitiless" man who is not capable of love, she tells her, and is only pursuing her because of her wealth...
After Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley inherits the manor and he mistreats Heathcliff. Catherine, despite loving Heathcliff, marries her rich neighbor, Edgar Linton, to find security. Heathcliff decides to leave and comes back after three years, having become mysteriously rich. He sets about seeking revenge and sets his sights on Isabella, Edgar's sister.
In this monologue Catherine tries to persuade that Heathcliff is not the right man for her. He is a cruel and "pitiless" man who is not capable of love, she tells her, and is only pursuing her because of her wealth...
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| CATHERINE: "I wouldn't be you for a kingdom! Nelly, help me to convince her of her madness. Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone. I'd as soon put that little canary into the park on a winter's day, as recommend you to bestow your heart on him! It is deplorable ignorance of his character, child, and nothing else, which makes that dream enter your head. Pray, don't imagine that he conceals depths of benevolence and affection beneath a stern exterior! He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic: he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man. I never say to him, "Let this or that enemy alone, because it would be ungenerous or cruel to harm them;" I say, "Let them alone, because I should hate them to be wronged:" and he'd crush you like a sparrow's egg, Isabella, if he found you a troublesome charge. I know he couldn't love a Linton; and yet he'd be quite capable of marrying your fortune and expectations: avarice is growing with him a besetting sin. There's my picture: and I'm his friend -- so much so, that had he thought seriously to catch you, I should, perhaps, have held my tongue, and let you fall into his trap. Banish him from your thoughts. He's a bird of bad omen: no mate for you." |
