Predicting Wuthering Heights

Our Language Arts teacher commissioned to write a piece about predicting the ending to a novel we're reading. Well, me being the person loving romance I am, I decided to write it on the novel Wuthering Heights. It has everything I look for a story, romance, drama, mystery, and death. I personally can't wait to finish this story, because I can finally see if my prediction was correct or incorrect. 

In 1801, Mr. Lockwood (A rich man from the south of England.) decides to rent Thrushcross Grange in the Yorkish Moors of the North of England for rest and recuperation. Life seems peaceful and relaxing upon his arrival in the moors, however, soon after his arrival, he decides to visit his Landlord at his farmhouse-manor, Wuthering Heights. Upon the four mile journey to Wuthering Heights, Mr. Lockwood reflects upon the peaceful quiet and admire the beauty of the moors. Upon his arrival at Wuthering Heights, he meets his landlord for the first time, Mr. Heathcliff. Though he may have the appearance of a gentleman, Mr. Heathcliff has something off about him. He dresses in a lord’s fashion and speaks like one, he has the appearance of a Gipsy with black hair and olive colored skin.  It is not that he is cruel or unkind to him, but he is more neutral and unfeeling towards him. This is where Mr. Lockwood begins to discover the secrets of Wuthering Heights, and the tragedy that happened there.

With the awkward uncaring attitude Mr. Heathcliff has toward Mr. Lockwood, this makes everything all the more uncomfortable when they are snowed in, and Mr. Lockwood is forced to spend the night. Not being a long staying guest, he is  only a small bedroom at the end of the second floor corridor. In this room, there are strange carvings on the wood panels of the walls, and he finds a diary inscribed with three different names. Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Heathcliff, and Catherine Linton. Pondering these three “Catherine’s” he slowly falls into a deep lulling sleep, and is abruptly awoken the following morning, and is sent home. Curious as to know who these Catherine’s were, he asks his feeble old housekeeper as to they are. She then explains that they are the same person, and that Catherine Loved two men in her brief lifetime. With this, she begins to tell the tale of Wuthering Heights.  

With Mr. Lockwood discovering the truth about Catherine, this was as far as I have read in the story. With the basic knowledge I have from the amount that I have read, I can begin predicting what will happen next. From what I know about the story, I am able to know that this story is a romance, drama/tragedy, and somewhat of a mystery. Mr.Heathcff was alone at Wuthering Heights, and the room with Catherine’s diary was in disrepair. So, from what I can inference, Catherine either died, (Judging from the Drama element of the story, this is the most likely event.) or because of the other name “Linton,” I can assume that Catherine has left Heathcliff for Mr. Linton, or that there was some sort of love triangle between the three of them.

With the first option in the book (Where Catherine dies.) it has the element of tragedy and romance involved. With the whole subject of love and loss, it can be connected to many of history’s stories. Just look at “The Raven” by Edgar Allen Poe. In the story, it states that his wife has died, and he is fraught with grief. Only when the raven tells him he will never love again as he had with his wife, (Lenore.) does he truly realize what he has truly lost. But the saying goes that it is better to have loved then lost then to have never loved at all. Even in the real world, people lose loved one’s. Queen Cleopatra of Egypt married the Dictator of Rome, Julius Cesar. Their love has been made into countless movies and books. However, only after his murder by the senate of Rome does Cleopatra realize what she has truly lost. In the end, everyone must die, but when you are truly love  by someone, and they lose you, it can drive a person mad. I suppose the same can be said with the second course of events in Wuthering Heights, the love triangle option.

Books, stories, and movies have been popular since the beginning of recorded history, and recent history. If the love triangle option does happen in the book, it could be the reason Heathcliff had the neutral, unfeeling, almost nasty attitude. In the book, the love triangle would be that both Heathcliff and Mr. Linton both loved Catherine, except she chose Mr. Linton (Thus the name in the diary.). It reminds me of a little story almost every person in the free world probably knows; Twilight. In the Twilight saga, the main premises of the story is that you are either a Vampire, a Werewolf, or a Human. Moving past that, Edward, a Vampire, and Jacob, a Werewolf, both fall in love with a human girl (Named Bella.). In the end, Bella must choose to either choose Edward or Jacob to love or be with, and leave the other out in the . However if sparkling blood suckers, or big dog people are not your cup of tea, I can respect that, because it’s not really mine either. However, another story with the love triangle element is yet another story known to most of the free world; The Hunger games. In it, the main character Katiness (The Catherine/Bella character in the story.) falls in love with her friend Gale, and Peta (The Heathcliff/Linton and Edward/Jacob characters in the story.). In the end, she is forced to pick between them. As I’ve said before, the whole premises of a love triangle is a much loved topic in stories.

With these two themes of Catherine dying, and the love triangle, Wuthering Heights will be a spectacular book to read either way. In the end however, I believe that the love triangle will be the most likely course of events, because when Mr. Lockwood found the diary with the three different last names in it, it was a giveaway that she would have a love triangle. Who knows, maybe she’ll have the love triangle, and then die before she is given the chance to choose. Either way, Wuthering Heights will be dramatic and tantalizing book to finish, and of what happened there.