Wuthering Heights Chapter 12 ( Part 1)

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摘要

TLDRIn Chapter 12 of "Wuthering Heights," Cathy locks herself in her bedroom, refusing food and drink for three days, while Edgar remains in the library. Cathy finally asks for food, claiming she's dying, though Nellie Dean, the servant, dismisses her melodrama as a play for Edgar's attention. Cathy is in turmoil, contemplating death as either a way to punish Edgar or a pathway to liberation. Her mental state is illustrated by her increasingly erratic behavior, such as chewing on her pillow and sorting feather by species. This act symbolizes her imprisonment in a house where she feels she doesn't belong, paralleling her longing for the freedom symbolized by Penistone Crags—a place she associates with innocence and true self, free from social confines. Cathy’s musings on death reflect her desperation to escape her tormented state, exacerbated by her alienation from everyone, including her family.

心得

  • 🔒 Cathy isolates herself in her room, refusing sustenance.
  • 📚 Edgar avoids confrontation, immersing himself in books.
  • 🗣️ Cathy's claims of dying are seen as manipulative.
  • 🌪️ Her madness reflected in tearing pillows apart.
  • 🏹 Symbolism of feathers and imprisonment.
  • 🌍 Cathy's yearning for freedom and childhood innocence.
  • 💔 Contemplation of death as escape from confinement.
  • 🪶 Sorting feathers symbolizes sorting out personal chaos.
  • 🏞️ Penistone Crags symbolizes freedom and innocence.
  • 👥 Cathy's detachment from family and social ties.

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    In the analysis of "Wuthering Heights," Chapter 12, we observe Catherine's emotional turmoil and her drastic steps towards self-starvation as a form of expressing her discontent and yearning for attention from Edgar. Her actions reflect a deep-seated mental struggle, where she dramatizes her condition, claiming she will die from anorexia to evoke guilt in Edgar. This chapter highlights Catherine's inner conflict and her manipulative tactics to draw attention to her mental state and deteriorating physical health. She declares extreme emotions, expressing that her death might cause Edgar anguish, yet doubts his capacity for such feelings. The symbolism of Catherine tearing her pillow emphasizes her internal chaos and desire for connection to the outdoors—the Moors—symbolized by wanting the window opened to feel the cold wind, signifying her wish for freedom and past connections.

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    The chapter further delves into Catherine's symbolic interaction with bird feathers, which she sorts by species while imprisoned by her own emotions, emphasizing themes of freedom and entrapment. The feathers represent various superstitions, suggesting that ones like pigeon's feathers hinder death, mirroring Catherine's feelings of being trapped in her life's circumstances. Her narrative extends to a story about lapwing birds, paralleling her own and Heathcliff's feelings of entrapment and longing for freedom, also indicating abandonment issues pervasive in the novel. Catherine perceives herself as isolated and misunderstood, employing metaphoric language to criticize household members as imprisoning forces, akin to elves collecting witchcraft tools. This chapter underlines Catherine's desire to return to a place of innocence and freedom, exploring settings like the Peniston Crags as symbols of her and Heathcliff's lost pastoral freedom and genuine emotional connection.

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常见问题

  • What does Cathy do for three days in Chapter 12?

    Cathy locks herself in her room, refusing to eat or drink.

  • How does Edgar respond to Cathy's behavior?

    Edgar remains distant, choosing to spend his time reading in the library.

  • What symbolic act does Cathy perform in this chapter?

    Cathy tears her pillow with her teeth and sorts the feathers by species, symbolizing chaos and imprisonment.

  • What does Penistone Crags represent in the novel?

    It represents freedom, innocence, and a space where Cathy and Heathcliff are free to be themselves.

  • How is death portrayed in this chapter?

    Death is contemplated by Cathy as both a means of escape and a way to inflict emotional pain on Edgar.

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    good evening dear students uh now we
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    come to explain chapter 12 of weathering
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    Heights we said earlier that uh Kathy
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    locked the door of her bedroom and she
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    would not let Nellie in she um she would
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    not eat nor drink for 3 Days um Edgar
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    also did not try to talk to her again he
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    sat in the library reading he talked
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    once to Isabella he told her that as we
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    said in chapter 12 and chapter 11 that
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    if she married he Cliff he would refuse
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    to see her again on the evening of the
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    third day Kathy unlocked her bedroom she
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    asked nly Dean for some food and water
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    and said that she was dying now n Dean
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    said that she did not believe uh a word
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    she said about dying she she thought
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    that it was only as she said it here I
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    said down this is just a speech meant
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    for Edgar's ears I want Edgar to hear
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    the those words uh according to
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    Catherine so I believed no such thing so
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    I kept to myself and I brought her some
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    tea and a dry toast now the point is you
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    are a servant you are like you should
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    not put your feelings you should not do
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    uh those things what she wants what she
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    wanted Cath was a porridge she wanted
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    like um a a re A Renewed supply of
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    porridge because she believed that she
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    was dying again with the idea of
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    anorexia eating eating disorder because
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    Catherine uh started to starve herself
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    because to according to her this way of
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    starvation um because we said yes she
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    was mentally ill but to her it was like
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    look at me Edgar I am dying and it's it
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    was like that so here Catherine on page
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    um page 148 149 she says that I will
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    choose between the two now she says if I
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    were only sure it would kill him I will
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    kill myself directly but I know that in
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    killing in actually killing myself it
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    would not make him uh or kill himself
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    so what would she do instead he says I
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    will choose between these two either to
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    starve at once that would be no
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    punishment unless he had a heart or to
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    recover and leave the country so in
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    between she has only two options either
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    to starve herself and die and in dying
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    Edgar what would he he will die also of
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    a broken heart um but she then again she
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    says he doesn't have a heart or to
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    recover uh and then I would leave the
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    country and she says as we said if I
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    were only sure it would kill him I would
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    kill myself directly these three awful
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    nights I have never closed my lips and
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    oh I have been tormented I have been
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    haunted Nolly why because uh Catherine
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    is starting to see how she is changed
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    how she is uh tormented how she Longs
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    yearns for the past now when nelli Dean
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    tells her the master is among his books
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    uh she tells her I will die I will
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    starve myself she asks her about Edgar
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    to which NL Dean she tells her is uh he
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    is among his books now on page 148 uh
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    nly Dean says tossing about she
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    increased her feverish bewilderment to
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    Madness and she started to tore or she
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    tore the pillow uh with with her teeth
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    this is a very very important U event or
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    a very important U situation which is
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    Catherine here as she was sitting on the
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    bed she started to tear the pillow with
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    her teeth and then Rising herself up all
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    burning she wanted for me to open the
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    window why did she want me to open the
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    window because she wanted to have a a a
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    breath a taste of the cold wind of the
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    Moors now she seemed to find a childish
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    diversion in pulling the feathers from
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    the rents she just made and she started
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    to uh put those feathers according to
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    what according to their um species or
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    according to their
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    kinds so why the feathers on page
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    148 uh page 14 uh no not page 148 sorry
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    on page
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    150 uh that's a turkey the second
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    paragraph where she describes uh the
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    where she uh divides the feathers into
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    their own according species so the idea
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    here we have the turkey we have the wild
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    duck we have the pigeons we have the
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    morock and we have the
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    lapwing why the pigeons why the lapwing
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    and what is the story of the little
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    skeletons let's go to them one by
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    one she says the lapwing it wanted to
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    get to its nest for the clouds had had
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    touched the swells and it fell the rain
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    coming now the pigeon here uh it was
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    also a Yorkshire superstitions was that
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    a person cannot die if they are lying on
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    a pigeon's feathers we we know uh
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    superstitions so many people have their
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    own superstitions and this is also here
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    according to people at that time weaing
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    Heights they believed that a person
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    would not die a person who wanted to die
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    and like but they were lying on a pillow
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    with pigeon Fe feathers they would not
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    die so what does she say here on page
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    150 she says no one ah they put pigeon's
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    feathers in the pillows no wonder I
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    couldn't die let me take care to throw
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    it on the floor while when I lie down
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    now notice this why does she say this
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    why does Catherine say why does
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    Katherine mentioned death and all of
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    that because Katherine saw that again as
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    we said I will break uh in the previous
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    chapter I will break my their hearts by
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    breaking my own so she thinks that the
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    only uh the only way to get out of this
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    whole situation was through death she
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    was lying on this bed with the feathers
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    with a pigeon feathers but she couldn't
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    uh she says that she cannot die because
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    the p the feathers of the pigeons are
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    there now the lapwing here she mentions
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    um and here is the morx and this I
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    should know it it's a lap Wings a bony
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    bird Wheeling over our heads in the
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    middle of the Moore it wanted listen it
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    wanted to get to it Nest but then the
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    clouds had touched this well and it felt
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    the rain coming now the lapwing here
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    they're uh generally very uh their Birds
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    they're very active very energetic Birds
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    their feathers however they're often
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    imprisoned uh in cushions and pillows so
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    here the symbol uh is just like
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    Catherine the way she is imprisoned in a
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    house that she does not belong to notice
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    here I've put this also um the the
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    Exile if we look at the people here
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    thres gross gra and Catherine here she's
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    like an exile she feels that she is um
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    uh she feels that she is imprisoned she
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    does not belong there and there
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    therefore she wishes to get free through
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    what how would she get Freedom with her
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    own death now the lapwing also it is
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    said that it is a very Savage hostile
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    bird to it own family or to its own kind
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    sorry the same here we can see with
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    Catherine do you remember in chapter I
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    believe five or four when when
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    Katherine's father tells her Katherine
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    why can't you be a good girl to which
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    she tells him why aren't you a good
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    daddy daddy so here the point is
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    Katherine in her youth she had not been
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    able to build a friendly relationship
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    with her family with her brother with
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    her father with her servants why because
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    she was always uh this uh free uh Soul
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    this Savage soul that is always on high
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    water mark if you remember the
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    description on of the beginning of the
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    chapters now the story of here so what
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    is she saying is that this bird the
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    lapwing it wanted to go to its place I I
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    N I am in heaven do not want to be in
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    heaven where do I want I want to go to
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    my Nest I want to go to my uh to my own
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    place where I feel that the rain is
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    there the storm is there the wind is
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    there now um Katherine also tells or uh
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    the story of how she and he Cliff once
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    they found a lap Wings Nest The Nest was
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    full of little skeletons because hecliff
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    set a trap over it and the old ones
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    according to her they dared not come now
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    these baby birds they were orphaned
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    because of a human meddling this is on
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    page 150 and these birds they died
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    because they were unable to defend for
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    themselves now here Katherine's empathy
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    is uh is totally uh uh comprehensible it
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    is understandable because after all she
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    lost her parents when she was
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    like the beginning of early in her life
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    and if we look at it in fact weathering
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    kites is also full of or orphans in a
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    way we have he Catherine even hendley
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    they're orphans even hertin in a way is
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    Orphan so hecliff is all the most
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    notable um living parents like hecliff
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    and uh hendley they they were
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    abandoned so uh here the same story that
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    Catherine tells is a
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    in a way it's a linking to the feelings
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    or project the feelings of the
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    abandonment and the loss of the those uh
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    sad Dead uh birds so this is for the uh
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    feathers and you can see that the birds
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    are very important uh symbol or uh in
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    the novel now on page 15 uh
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    51 Nellie Dean here she uh sorry
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    Katherine here she tells uh Nellie that
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    I want to have a uh like I want to go
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    out I want to to be where I belonged
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    however she cannot because again we know
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    why now she tells Nelly Dean Nelly I see
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    in you an aged woman you have a gray
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    hair and bent shoulder this sped this is
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    very important this this bed is the very
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    cave under peniston Crow
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    and you are gathering elf bolts to hurt
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    us now let's let's see what is this um
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    uh the fairy cave the peniston
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    Crags so what is uh the bed the the
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    fairy cave uh the peniston Crags and the
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    elf bolts now here when Catherine is
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    looking at nully Dean she tells her that
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    you are a uh an elf
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    you she is accusing her of collecting
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    elf B bolts which are arrow heads that
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    were believed to be made by elves
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    they're used for
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    witchcrafting now the story here it goes
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    that the the elf bolts the fairy cave
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    was also uh said to be a poem by Charles
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    uh Swanson it's an Epic Fantasy
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    narrative poem we'll read some of the
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    lines uh here mentioned in this
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    so what she means is that me Catherine I
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    am Catherine and hether Cliffe we are uh
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    there in the fairy cave in the peniston
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    cracks we're free we're innocent we're
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    doing uh we're embracing one another
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    we're loving one another we're just
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    innocent to human beings who want
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    nothing from the world but to be what
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    but to just love one another however you
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    nelli Dean you are like an elf that what
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    that wants to hurt that that the good
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    place now the the um the peniston CR
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    what is this cave what is the peniston
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    CR now the peniston CR is the one place
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    where characters uh Catherine he Cliff
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    they're free to be themselves I put this
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    in your note in the file so please do
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    check this uh the the place the location
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    is associated with Katherine and hether
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    we have KY here she shows her yearning
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    to escape the confinement of the gra she
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    does not want to be again imprisoned by
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    in the Grange and she wants to run free
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    on the Moors penistone cags their
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    Landscapes their rocks and the spring of
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    flowers a bloom among the rocks and uh
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    Beauty
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    appears again as we said it is the only
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    place where Kathy and he CL they go to
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    escape hindley they're both are free
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    they're three Spirits as children and
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    the place here it signifies their
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    innocence and raw needs it also
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    represents to the uh this this slide it
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    also represent this is taken from a
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    movie by the way by by BBC so here it
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    also represents the beautiful side of of
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    their love now on a thematic level
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    however peniston CAG it's like the Moors
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    the Moors did we have the social nor
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