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hello and welcome to chapter 15 of our
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exploration of Wuthering Heights so
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so I will now delve you chapter 15. so
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we've got Lockwood opening the narration
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here
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so there's nearer health and spring I've
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now heard all my neighbors history at
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different sittings so of course this all
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links back to the whole narrative device
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of Lockwood as the outer frame narrator
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and Nellie's been telling him everything
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that's been happening uh all the time
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she's lived there in relation to
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Wuthering Heights and obviously
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Heathcliff in particular and Catherine
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I'll continue in our own words only a
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little condensed she is on the whole a
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very fair narrator and I don't think I
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could improve her style so ironic there
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from Bronte because of course I think
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most people reading the novel agree that
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Nelly is the uh is the better narrator
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really than Lockwood
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he is improving let's give him a bit of
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a chance here I think
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so we have
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um
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an evening she said the evening one was
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at the heights I knew as well as if I
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saw him that Mr heathcliffe was about
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the place and I shun going out because I
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still carried his letter in my pocket so
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remember that Heathcliff wants to pass
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on a well nearly one ah Heathcliff wants
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Nelly to pass on a letter
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from him to her as she's really ill
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and we have teased at a bit of a
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stronger meaning in those days
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the fourth was Sunday and I brought it
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to into her room after the family were
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gone to church so while everyone's out
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Nellie's opportunity to pass the letter
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over
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Mrs Linton sat in a loose white dress
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with a light shawl over her shoulders
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and the recess of the open window as
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usual so I've highlighted that because
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again it shows her connection to Nature
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so Bronte established her as a character
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who is really could have had one with
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nature says she gets as close as Nate to
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Nature as she can
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a thick long hair have been partly
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removed at the beginning of her illness
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and now she wore it simply combed in its
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natural dresses over her temples and
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neck so this is like the theme of a kind
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of mental health her mental distress
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she's been tearing her hair out
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she's obviously been in a case of very
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strong emotional
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extreme emotional torment
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and the Flash of horizon being succeeded
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by a dreamy and Melancholy softness they
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no longer gave the impression of looking
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at the objects around her they appeared
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always to gaze Beyond and far beyond you
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would have said out of this world so a
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couple of things going on here Bronte is
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foreshadowing her death of course and
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also really in some ways the appearance
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of her at the start of the novel as a
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ghost as well but also the idea of that
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she's in a in a kind of liminal space is
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transitioning between life and death
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She's approaching death and reality
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seems to be something that she's leaving
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behind
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and then we have about the more kind of
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symbols of nature here I've highlighted
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this so gimmerton Chapel Bells were
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still ringing in the full mellow flow of
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the back in the valley came soothingly
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on the ear there's a sweet substitute
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for the absent murmur of the summer
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foliage which drowned that music about
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the Grange when the trees were in leaf
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so again that's another good one for the
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important of
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nature so again we've got heathis letter
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being read here no I didn't highlight
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that reason then
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we have I as I spoke I observed a large
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dog lying on the sunny grass beneath
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raise its ears if it's about to bark and
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then smoothing them back announced by
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wag of the tail that someone approached
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it whom it did not consider a stranger
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so again a connection to animals it's
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Heathcliff has been visiting the Grange
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a lot so on a kind of more literal sense
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it suggests that the
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heathless visits have been so frequent
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that dogs are used to him being there
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that's one thing I think also bronte's
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going for there's connotations of
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heathcliffe as a powerful kind of alpha
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male you know like and dogs will be
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subservient to him because he's like
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them himself he's more powerful than
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dog's Respect power so there's a case of
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I think that's what Bronte is doing
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there as well
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uh most like you suppose that I was
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inclined to shirk my promise and so
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revolved to trust to his own audacity he
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just barges into the house effectively
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then the same conviction is stricken him
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as me from the instant he beheld her as
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in when he sees Catherine there was no
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Prospect of ultimate recovery there she
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was fated sure to die so this is
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foreshadowing or if you are a new or
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exciting word prolapsis that's the more
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exciting word for foreshadowing you can
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have that as well
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then
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you and Edgar have broken my heart
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Heathcliff you both come to be whale the
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deed to me as if you were the people to
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be pitied I shall not pity you not yet
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not I her selfishness again her
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character isn't it Catherine linton's
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character has been defined by
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selfishness and I think you and Edgar
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have broken my heart but really it's
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about her own selfishness and jealousy
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really this has destroyed herself really
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that's how I see it you can see it
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differently that's how I see it I'm not
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telling you you have to agree with me
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you have killed me and driven thriven on
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it I think how strong you are how many
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years do you mean to live after I am
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gone so this selfishness extends to the
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idea of you know when she's dead like so
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you're oh you're gonna you look so
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healthy you're gonna be living even
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longer
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I wish I could hold you she continued
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until we were both dead
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and this foreshadows that
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the end of the novel actually where
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there are some references to maybe that
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does happen that they are together when
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they're dead as well but we will get to
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that in due course
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would you say 20 years hence this is all
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again it's more foreshadowing here as
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well because the ghost remember if it
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was a vision or if it was a real ghost
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but it said it's been 20 years so it
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connects the the present of the novel to
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the past or the novel
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this is all kind of hypothetical stuff
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from Catherine here like imagining that
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Heathcliff will say that I've Loved many
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others since my children are dear to me
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than she was and at death I shall not
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rejoice that I am going to her I shall
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be sorry that I must leave them will you
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say so so her selfishness extends to
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Beyond her death like she doesn't she's
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a magic so oh will you say that there's
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will there be others after me and that
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you'll love your children more than me
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when I'm gone
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don't torture me till I'm as mad as
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yourself cried he that's Heath wrenching
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his head for him grinding his teeth so
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very animalistic imagery there as well
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like Catherine Dean that heaven would be
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a land of Exile to her unless her mortal
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body she Cast Away her moral character
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also so remember that she told Nelly
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um
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just before Heathcliff left wasn't it
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about how heaven heaven rejected her and
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she dreamed that she was back on the
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heights so that actually recalls that so
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that's that's a reference back to that
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there and anaphoric reference back to
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that point
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different to normal anaphora but it's
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another type of anaphor but referring
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back to something earlier on in the
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novel in this case
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then always letting go I forced four
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distinct Impressions left blue in the
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colorless skin he's held us so tightly
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but again I think it's too an echo the
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violence and power of Heathcliff really
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and in this case I think it's meant to
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show this this intensity of their
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incredibly dangerous violent
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love
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I hesitated to say love because it's
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it's yeah it's not this is definitely
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not a normal relationship is it that
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they have it's not her normal loving
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relationship it's very complicated
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do you reflect that all these words will
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be branded in my memory and eating
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deeper eternally after you've left me
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you know you lie to say I've killed you
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and Catherine you know that I could
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assume forget you as my existence
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so hyperbole therefore Heathcliff from
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Bronte it is not sufficient of your
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infernal selfishness that while you're
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at peace I shall wise in the torments of
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hell so we've said before about the
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theme of religion in the novel there's
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references to hell
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Bronte will subvert kind of a typical
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kind of conventional Christian ideas of
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the time and in terms of Heathcliff his
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own personal hell he's not worried about
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going to the Christian idea of Hell at
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all what bothers heathcliffe is the idea
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of being in his own personal hell alive
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while Catherine is dead that's that's
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hell for him
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I shall not be at peace and you could
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say actually that foreshadows the uh
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ghostly appearance to Lockwood earlier
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on I only wish us never to be parted
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so staying together there do you come to
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me heathcliffe what else have I put here
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so we've said I hardly thought Kathy
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made a spring and he caught her and they
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were locked in an embraced which I
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thought my mistress would never be
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released alive
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so again that one is
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hyperbole brunt is using hyperbole there
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and it shows again that intensity of
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their relationship
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uh he flung himself into the nearest
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seat and am I approaching Hurley to
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ascertain if she had fainted he gnashed
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at me so that verb choice is very
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animalistic isn't it it's very much you
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think of dogs wolves predatory animals
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foamed like a mad dog the simile there
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as well and remember we had right at the
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start of the chapter the idea of him
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being
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effectively like a kind of alpha male in
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this kind of dog world you know he's
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like leader of the pack there's a sense
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of that there as well
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I did not feel as if I were in the
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company of a creature of my own species
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so again more hyperbole there but again
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Bronte emphasizing that animalistic
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passion that Heathcliff has here as
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Catherine is
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on them really on the cusp of death
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effect because she is going to spoiler
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alert she's going to die in this chapter
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then
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you teach me how cruel you've been cruel
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and false why did you despise me why did
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you betray your own heart Kathy so
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there's anaphora there starting with the
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same
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letter there sorry letter starting with
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the same word there so why
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not one word to come for you deserve
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this you have killed yourself
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you see me kiss me and cry and ring out
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kissing and tears they'll blight you
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they'll damn you you love me so again
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all of this use of uh parenthesis dashes
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interrogative sentences since the
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sentence mood look again this is all to
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reflect the intensity of the emotion
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there's a fronted conjunction there like
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starting the sentence with a conjunction
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there's a sense of all this passion and
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intensity of what we're seeing so it's
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worse for me that I'm strong do I want
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to live what kind of living will it be
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would you oh God
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would you like to live with your soul in
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the grave
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so let me alone let me know so you've
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got again this intensity of their
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relationship here and you've got
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episiotics is here repeating the same
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sentence or parallel phrasing if you
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prefer actually then
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you left me to but I won't upgrade you I
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forgive you forgive me so again I think
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there's Echoes of Christianity here but
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it's their own
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with idea of forgiveness but Catherine
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and heathcliffe forged their own
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relationship not built on Christian
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ideas of how a man and woman would
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conduct themselves it's like their own
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Pagan effectively in the sense of the
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word in terms of it's non-Christian it's
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kind of transcendent their relationship
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is linked to their souls and the land
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and everything so it's definitely not
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conventional Bronte I mean remember part
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of your context though bronte's father
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was uh you know essentially a vicar you
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know he's a preacher
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um
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very unusual if you think you know she's
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a she's a daughter of a clergyman
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and she's got very very radical
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twists and perceptions of Christianity
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in this era as well
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then we have
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over the page sorry hesitated there
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sorry
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then oh don't go it is the last time
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Edgar not hurt us Heath if I shall die I
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should know damn the fool there he has
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got Heath of sinking package we see hush
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my darling Steve he shot me so I'd
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expire with a blessing in my lips so
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Heath division is prepared to
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face the wrath of Edgar as he's
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returning from church he's prepared to
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face
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his anger and actually I was hesitating
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there because I was thinking hey of
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course there's another interesting thing
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with religion because Heathcliff and
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Catherine are in this close Embrace
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they're kind of declaring really their
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Transcendent love for each other while
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everyone else is at church
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it's interesting isn't it
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that is the most diabolical deed that
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you ever did we're all done for master
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mistress and servants
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so that's from nearly actually so
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they're all kind of condemned because of
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what Heath and Catherine are doing Edgar
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sprinkle his own bed and guess unbidden
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guest Blanche with astonishment and rage
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what are you meant to do I can't tell
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however this the others stopped all
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demonstrations At Once by placing the
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lifeless looking form in his arm so
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because of Catherine facing death here
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or she is dying she's gonna be dead here
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um very soon
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look there unless you be a fiend helper
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first then you shall speak to me
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autism probably sat down so
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so she's on the brink of death here and
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actually no she doesn't die in this
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chapter technically she dies in the next
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chapter but she's on the she's on the
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way out
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so
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I shall stay in the garden and Nelly
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mind you keep your word tomorrow I shall
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be under those Larch trees so we get so
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Heathcliff is going to be waiting for
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news of Catherine but he likes to be
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outside again the different Natures of
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Edgar Linton in the house
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obviously he is the husband the bedside
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Catherine is actually pregnant as we can
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see you might see below you there you
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can see some
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reference to that there as well
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but I will stop there and then yeah
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Catherine really will die chapter 16 she
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dies okay so I made a slight Little Mix
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I prepared both of these at the same
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time is my defense
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so anyway I hope you enjoyed that one
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