Wuthering Heights (CHAPTER TWO)

On a cold afternoon , Lockwood heads out to Wuthering Heights upon arrival nobody answers the door , eventually "Vinegar face Joseph" opens the door for Lockwood , and explains Heathcliff is not in the house. After a while , "a young man without coat and shouldering a pitch fork" he leads Lockwood to the s into a sitting room where he finds a beautiful girl seated beside a fire. Lockwood assumes she is Heathcliff’s wife. He tries to make conversation, but she responds rudely.  Later his corrected by Heathcliff "her mate is dead.I said she was my daughter in law , therefore , she must have married my son" . The light snowfall quickly becomes a blizzard , and when the time for Lockwood depature arrives he is forced to ask for a guide , everybody refuses to help him , he then takes a lantern and says that he will find his own way, promising to return with the lantern in the morning. Joseph see's him making his way , and assumes he has stolen the lantern and sets the dogs on Lockwood , his i then injured with a nosebleed , and despite being angry , Zillah , the house keeper leads him to a bed.

QOC:

"with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency , smacked of King Lear"

Lockwood means that his threats reminded her of the rash, angry and misjudged actions of Shakespeare's King Lear. By comparing his threats to one character such as King Lear highlights the voice of anger , and darkness which resides inside of everyone , once again further highlighting the essentials of tragedy. 

Analysis: (Adapted from http://www.gradesaver.com/wuthering-heights/study-guide/section1/)

This chapter could be viewed as a continuation of the strict division between social ideals (grace, pleasant social interactions, Lockwood) and natural realities (storms, frost, dogs, bluntness, cruelty, Hareton, Heathcliff). If the chapter was taken by itself, out of context, the reader would see that while social ideals are ridiculed, it is clear that the cruel natural world is ugly and hardly bearable.

Wuthering Heights (CHAPTER ONE)

Its 1801 , Lockwood is scribing into his diary his first days as a tenant at Thrushcross Grange , which he describes as "removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven". Soon after his arrival Lockwood pays a visit to his landlord, Mr.Heathcliff a "dark skinned gypsy in aspect,in dress and manners a gentleman". During his visit, Lockwood is left in a "vis-à-vis the ruffianly bitch and a pair of grim shaggy sheepdogs”. Heathcliff possibly does this because of his lack of trust towards Lockwood. Lockwood is later rescued from the hounds by a “lusty dame” ruddy-cheeked housekeeper. When Heathcliff returns, Lockwood is angry, but eventually warms toward his taciturn host, and—though he hardly feels that he has been welcomed at Wuthering Heights—he volunteers to visit again the next day.

QOC (Quote of the chapter!):

"The 'walk in' was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment 'Go to the deuce'"

I think this quote summarises the whole message behind the first chapter, the walk in is symbolic as it is the entrance of the manor for Lockwood , but is also the entrance for uses to the novel. The idea of closed teeth gives the idea of a lost voice almost as if there is a spiritual essence ,a ghost that lurks warning visitors of what lurk behind. Sentiment is an idea based on more emotion instead of reasons , the use of this word imeadilety conceives an image of a broken relationship, almost foreshadowing Heathcliff and Cathy's relationship. The word deuce is sometimes seen as another name for the devil, the fact that Bronte decided to use deuce instead of devil , it gives an idea of wanting to disguise the reality of the devil being prominent within the household, whereas it could be just seen as a greeting at the entrance of hell. 

This quote just generally seems to sum up the chapter , and highlights the theme of Gothic literature.

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