Who is mr. lockwood

Because of her desire for social prominence, Catherine marries Edgar Linton instead of Heathcliff. A powerful, fierce, and often cruel man, Heathcliff acquires a fortune and uses his extraordinary powers of will to acquire both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, the estate of Edgar Linton.

The daughter of Mr. Earnshaw and his wife, Catherine falls powerfully in love with Heathcliff, the orphan Mr. Earnshaw brings home from Liverpool. Catherine loves Heathcliff so intensely that she claims they are the same person. However, her desire for social advancement motivates her to marry Edgar Linton instead.

Catherine is free-spirited, beautiful, spoiled, and often arrogant. She is given to fits of temper, and she is torn between her wild passion for Heathcliff and her social ambition. She brings misery to both of the men who love her. Well-bred but rather spoiled as a boy, Edgar Linton grows into a tender, constant, but cowardly man.

A somewhat vain and presumptuous gentleman, he deals very clumsily with the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights. As a narrator, his vanity and unfamiliarity with the story occasionally lead him to misunderstand events. A sensible, intelligent, and compassionate woman, she grew up essentially alongside Hindley and Catherine Earnshaw and is deeply involved in the story she tells. Related Characters: Mr. Lockwood speaker , Heathcliff. Related Symbols: Wuthering Heights.

Related Themes: Nature and Civilization. Page Number and Citation : 4 Cite this Quote. Explanation and Analysis:. Chapter 3 Quotes. Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes. Lockwood speaker.

Page Number and Citation : 27 Cite this Quote. The ledge, where I placed my candle, had a few mildewed books piled up in one corner; and it was covered with writing scratched on the paint. This writing, however, was nothing but a name repeated in all kinds of characters, large and small—Catherine Earnshaw, here and there varied to Catherine Heathcliff, and then again to Catherine Linton.

Related Themes: Gothic Literature and the Supernatural. Page Number and Citation : 21 Cite this Quote. Chapter 32 Quotes. The task was done, not free from further blunders; but the pupil claimed a reward, and received at least five kisses; which, however, he generously returned. Then they came to the door, and from their conversation I judged they were about to issue out and have a walk on the moors.

Page Number and Citation : Cite this Quote. Lockwood appears in Wuthering Heights. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance. Chapter 1. It is Lockwood writes in his diary that, wanting solitude after unintentionally hurting a woman he admired because He decides to rent a mansion to escape modern society and the city and get over a recent heartbreak.

The landlord — Heathcliff, surprises the narrator with his hostility. In reality, Mr. Lockwood is shocked by the unfriendly atmosphere of the place in general. A peaceful escape from reality did not start well for the man.

Instead, it left a bitter impression on him. During his second visit to Wuthering Heights, the narrator has to spend the night in the mansion. The miserable weather conditions do not allow him to travel. During the stay, he comes across a diary of a former resident Catherine. After reading the diary, Lockwood sees a nightmare. The man gets deeply affected by the nightmare. Lockwood shares his dream with Heathcliff. After hearing everything, the latter one gets furious.

He orders the narrator to leave the manor immediately. Lockwood learns that Nelly hasn't spoke to Cathy since she lived at the Heights, and 6 weeks have passed since he arrived at Yorkshire. He writes in his diary that Nelly has finished her story and decides to go to Wuthering Heights to inform his landlord he is ending his tenancy and return home to London to escape from the strange inhabitants of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.

Lockwood goes to the Heights with a letter he was to give to Cathy by Nelly. He waits outside the gate until Hareton lets him in. He enters the kitchen where he sees Cathy cooking, and didn't know he was there. He notices how much she has changed following his previous visit to the Heights and she looked miserable, but notes that while she wasn't an angel, she was still beautiful. In the parlour, Lockwood places the note onto Cathy's lap.

Hareton takes the note but then gives it back to her. He explains the letter is from Nelly, and while Cathy ignores him, he still urges her to talk to him for Nelly would need a response. When asked by the girl if Nelly likes him, he replies that he does. After Hareton and Cathy have an argument, Lockwood finds out that Heathcliff had confiscated all of her books and Hareton had attempted to read them and Cathy teased his illiteracy, which ended up him burning the books.

Lockwood even thinks on how Hareton behaves towards his cousin with his anger. Heathcliff appears and he notices how Hareton has a striking resemblance to Catherine Earnshaw. The men sit down and talk again about the rental property, with Lockwood promising he would pay off the rest of his tenancy later on. At dinner, Lockwood notices Cathy did not join the table, while he is only with Heathcliff and Hareton and the meal is quiet.

He wanted to catch a final glimpse at Cathy but his landlord escorts him outside. As he leaves, he muses on how it would have been like a fairy tale if Cathy really did fall in love with him and wanted to live in a better place with him.

He first goes to the Grange, where a servant he doesn't know answers the door and is the new housekeeper. He finds out that Nelly has moved to the Heights and doesn't ask any more questions to the servant since he startled her with his unexpected arrival. Lockwood goes to the Heights to pay off the rest of his rent, where the gate is locked. He eavesdrops Hareton and Cathy in the kitchen, and hears her teaching her cousin how to read, kissing him when he got it right and slapping him when he made a mistake.

Lockwood is jealous of how beautiful she really is. After going inside, he meets Nelly. Lockwood is told he would either have to pay his rent either to Cathy or to Nelly. He is confused at first, and finds out from Nelly that Heathcliff has died 3 months ago.

He listens as she explained that 2 weeks after his departure, Zillah left the Heights and Nelly took her place. As time went by, Hareton and Cathy warm up with each other and they fall in love. Heathcliff saw how the couple resembled a lot like his soulmate and no longer wants to take revenge on them. Before long, his behaviour turns bizarre; such as refusing to eat, wandering around the moors and murmuring Catherine's name. Nelly later finds him dead in his room, laid to rest in the same graveyard with Catherine and says there have been reports of Heathcliff and Catherine's ghosts spotted on the moors.

Lockwood finds out that Hareton and Cathy are to be married on New Year's Day and move back to the Grange, while Joseph would stay back at the Heights. He even thinks that ghosts could inhabit the house, but Nelly doesn't believe it. After he sees the young couple return, Lockwood knew he must take the opportunity to leave.

He hurries past the kitchen and even tosses a golden coin to Joseph on his way out. He walks across the moors and appears at the churchyard, where he sees three tombstones on a slope next to the moors: Catherine's grave was hidden underneath the ground, Edgar's was covered in moss and Heathcliff's still visible.

He writes that despite the villagers seeing the spirits of Heathcliff and Catherine on the moors, he wonders how anyone can "imagine the unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth. Even if he sees them in a negative way, he afterwards blames himself for the way he was to them. He is also curious, as he is willing to learn personal details of his unwelcoming host and those who are associated with him.

When Nelly narrates her story of Heathcliff and Catherine, Lockwood follows along closely, but when she stops, he insists she keeps going. His fears make him irritated afterwards, and even if he is a coward, he constantly ponders of the two families and the strange, serene wilderness of the moors. Classic Literature Wikia Explore. Wiki Content. Heathcliff Piggy Jack Mr. Explore Wikis Community Central.

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