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jeanette09
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In chapther 29 of "Wuthering Heights", why does Heathcliff say he is pacified a little?

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Posted by jeanette09 on Tuesday December 16, 2008 at 2:52 PM and tagged with chapter 29, heathcliff, pacified, wuthering heights.

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  1. mwestwood
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    Just as Cathy felt a mystical conviction that she and Heathcliff would be fatefully united, so does Heathcliff as he tells Nelly about his having opened the grave of Cathy.

    ...but as certainly as you perceive the approach to some substantial body in the dark, though it cannot  be discerned, so certainly I felt that Cathy was there not under me, but on the earth.  A sudden sense of relief flowed from my heart through every limb, I reliquished my labors, and turned consoled at once; unspeakably consoled.

    Only in his love for Cathy, even if it is in death, can console Heathcliff.  The revenge that he has wreaked upon Hindley and Edgar  and Linton does not satisfy him.  There is a mental tension toward one absorbing subject for Heathcliff:  Cathy.  Only when he feels her presence is he "consoled."

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    Posted by mwestwood on Tuesday December 16, 2008 at 7:03 PM