Wuthering Heights

Chapter III The story starts with an introduction of the speech of Mr. Lockwood, who is the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, who pays a visit to his landlord, Mr.Heathcliff, who lives in Wuthering Heights with hareton and Catherine, two teenagers. Mr.Lockwood is forced to stay in Wuthering Heights for the night because of the storm: Heathcliff doesnt want to host him, so Lockwood sleeps in a oack room where he can read 3 names etched in the wood: Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff and Catherine Linton. During the night he heard a noise coming from outside, so he opened the window to stop the noise but instead of a branch of a tree, he was kaught by a little icy cold hand and a voice of a child asking let me in . He saw a childish face through the window. Lockwood is curious to know about Heathcliff and the two teenagers, who live with him and seem to hate him. So he asks Nelly Dean ( a servant, she knew very well the events happened in the 2 houses and she is the main narrator). She starts narrating about Wuthering Heights and Heathcliffs arrival, who is an outsider. He is a typical Byronic hero with a mysterious origin and an attractive look with black eyes and black hair.

Chapter IV Nelly Dean begins telling the story about Earnshaws: she was in Wuthering Heights because her mother nursed Hindley and so she used to play with the children. A day Mr.Earnshaw had to go to Liverpool and asked his children what bring them as a present. Hindley wanted a violin while Cathy chose a whip. After three day of absence, at eleven oclock Mr.Earnshaw came back to home with a dirty, ragged, black haired child; he was frightened and he always stayed around, but Mrs.Earnshaw was very angry with the master because they had already children to feed. The master said that he was houseless. So Nelly had to take care of him. The children were looking for their presents but they were quite upset when they learnt that they would slept with the former, so at the end the boy was put on the landing of the stairs by the servant. Mr.Earnshaw saw him and immediately Nelly was forced to confess what happened: so she was sent out of the house. The boy was christened Heathcliff (moore-rocks), he was always with Cathy but he was at once hated by Handley because of his jealousy. He seemed a patient child but contrary to this, he was a furious boy: indeed when he bowed Hindley, after the accident nobody was to blame. So he bred bad feelings in the house: he was more job for Mrs.Earnshaw an she understood that Heathcliff represented a danger for the broking of the family, so after Mrs.Eanrshaws death, he was sent out and made him a servant.

Cathy tells Nelly about her conflicting feelings regarding Heathcliff and Edgar Linton. Indeed she says that heaven is not her home and that her heart is broken with weeping to come back to earth: the angels were so angry to threw her out into the wild moonland on the top of Wuthering Heights, where she woke sobbing for joy. She thinks that Edgar is not for her because she loves Heathcliff and because he is more herself while Edgar is different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire. After this speech, Heathcliff heard that Catherine said it would degrade her to marry him. Nelly says that if Heathcliff is in love with Catherine, he will be miserable since she cannot marry him while Catherine says that she will her permit nothing to separate her from Heathcliff and in order to feel better about her decision, wants to believe that Heahtcliff understands nothing of love. She says also that her reason for marrying Edgar is to help Heathcliff. Nelly, instead says that Edgar may not be happy about Cathys plans to use his money to help Heathcliff, so Catherine explains how her true self is contained within Heathcliff and that she would be nothing without him. Then she expresses her feelings about Edgar and Heathcliff: her love for Edgar will fade over time like the leaves in the woods, while her love for Heathcliff is like the eternal rocks, a source of little visible delight.

Hard times( part 1)

The school master Grandgrind is described as a man of facts and calculations. He has with him a rule, a scale and a multiplication table because he measures any parcel of human nature. He sees the students as a pitchers, so little containers in which put in facts. He is a severe person and pretends to call him sir. He seems a shocking apparatus who destroys the young pupils imagination. At the beginning he calls the girl n.20, she names Sissy Jupe but according to the master it is not a name. Then he asks about her father: he works in the circus and trains horses. Mr.Grandgrind want her to describe her father as an horsebreaker, a veterinary surgeon and a farrier. Then, in the following paragraph the sunbeams light the pupils, dividing the class in two parts: Sissy, who is dark eyes and dark hair seems to receive more light from the sun, while the boy Bitzer, who is lighted eyes and hair, seems to disappear.

Hard times(part 2)
Coketown is described as a typical industrial city: it is a town of unnatural red and black bricks, like the painted face of a savage, a city of machinery and tall chimneys which constantly emit smoke; a black canal run through and the river, that is purple because of damaging substances, is like the head of an elephant in a state of melancholy madness. The streets are inhabited by factory workers who live revolve around a dull and repetitive routine. The text can be divided in two parts: the first part describes a polluted city while the second part is a clear reference to utilitarianism: indeed the fine lady represents an aristocratic woman, who doesnt want to know about poor people and their conditions: so she wants to buy the luxury goods who are produced in Coketown but she doesnt want to know where they came from.