Wuthering Heights 학습 가이드

Heathcliff

Heathcliff enters the Earnshaw household as a rescued child who suffers mistreatment, but later uses imprisonment to force Cathy's marriage to Linton. His loss of interest in revenge as Cathy and Hareton grow closer suggests that domination no longer satisfies him.

핵심 chapters: 4, 27, 33

Catherine

Catherine grows close to Heathcliff amid family conflict, but chooses marriage to Edgar, a decision followed by Heathcliff's disappearance.

핵심 chapters: 5, 9, 16

Cathy

Cathy, Catherine's daughter, suffers imprisonment when Heathcliff forces her toward marriage with Linton. Her later plans to marry and move with Hareton suggest a future shaped by a chosen attachment rather than coercion.

핵심 chapters: 27, 34

Nelly

Nelly is the housekeeper who recounts Heathcliff's arrival and treatment, but she also acts within the events she describes. She admits him for a secret reunion with Catherine and later discovers his body before telling Lockwood about his death.

핵심 chapters: 15, 34

Edgar

Later, his concern turns toward protecting his daughter Cathy's fortune, and he dies after she returns.

핵심 chapters: 9, 11, 28

Hareton

Hareton becomes dependent on Heathcliff because of Hindley's debts, yet continues to defend Heathcliff's reputation while protecting and studying with Cathy. His grief at Heathcliff's death sits beside his plans to marry Cathy, showing his divided attachments.

핵심 chapters: 17, 33, 34

Isabella

Isabella falls in love with Heathcliff despite warnings about his cruelty, then describes fear and misery after marrying him. Her escape shows a movement away from an attachment that offers no refuge.

핵심 chapters: 10, 13, 17

Linton

Linton is Heathcliff's frightened son, whose arrival becomes part of his father's plans to gain property. His fear overshadows his meeting with Cathy, and his death without medical help leaves her a widow.

핵심 chapters: 20, 26, 30

Lockwood

Lockwood is Heathcliff's new tenant, whose mistaken expectations introduce the household's hostility. His reading of Catherine's notes, dream at the window, and later hearing of Nelly's account connect his visits to the household's past.

핵심 chapters: 1, 3, 34

Revenge and control

Heathcliff's wish to repay Hindley develops into control over Cathy, whom he imprisons to force a marriage to Linton. His eventual inability to enjoy destruction suggests that revenge can organize a life without providing lasting satisfaction.

등장하는 곳: chapters 7, 27, 33

Grief and longing

Heathcliff responds to Catherine's death by begging her to remain with him in any form, rather than accepting separation. His account of eighteen years of restless longing shows grief becoming an enduring attachment that offers no peace.

등장하는 곳: chapters 16, 29

Divided loyalty

Edgar's demand makes Catherine's attachment to Heathcliff incompatible with loyalty to him, turning affection into an enforced choice. Hareton's protection of Cathy alongside his defense of Heathcliff suggests that competing loyalties do not always disappear when relationships begin to change.

등장하는 곳: chapters 11, 33

Learning and kindness

The quarrel ending in burned books links learning with humiliation rather than help, while Lockwood witnesses the damage of cruel mockery. Hareton's later study with Cathy suggests that education can instead become a shared activity that supports affection.

등장하는 곳: chapters 31, 33

Books

Burned books show learning caught in resentment and humiliation. Hareton's later study with Cathy suggests a different possibility, learning as a means of closeness.

Chapters 31, 33

The window

It works as a boundary through which the household's past seems to press into the present.

Chapter 3

Letters

Isabella's letter carries private suffering beyond her hostile household. The secret letters connected with Cathy and Linton suggest that written messages also sustain attachments outside supervision.

Chapters 13, 21

Heathcliff, Chapter 6. Heathcliff speaks after the forbidden outing exposes the difference between Catherine's treatment and his own. His comparison shows how unequal treatment divides their shared experience.

Catherine, Chapter 9. Catherine speaks while discussing her decision to marry Edgar. Her declaration of likeness to Heathcliff shows the depth of the attachment that her marriage choice does not erase.

Heathcliff, Chapter 16. Heathcliff speaks in grief after Catherine's death, asking for continued presence rather than peace. The plea shows an attachment that resists even the separation of death.

Heathcliff, Chapter 27. Heathcliff speaks to Cathy during her captivity, making release conditional on marriage to Linton. The threat shows how completely coercion replaces consent in his marriage scheme.

Catherine, Chapter 32. Cathy speaks to Hareton as their hostility begins to give way to affection. Her request for forgiveness shows change beginning through acknowledgment rather than further humiliation.