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thatboywill
thatboywill
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High School - 12th Grade

In "Wuthering Heights" how do Lockwood's dreams add to the mystery amd gloom of the novel?

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Posted by thatboywill on Thursday December 11, 2008 at 6:59 PM and tagged with characters, dream, gloom, lockwood, mystery, wuthering heights.

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  1. ms-mcgregor Teacher
    High School - 12th Grade

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    Lockwood's dreams set up the mystery of who Catherine Earnshaw Linton really was. They also heighten and foreshadow some of the cruelty that is evident in later parts of the book. For instance, Lockwood rubs the wrist of Catherine's ghost across a pane of glass so she will let go of him. The supernatural elements of his dreams also add to the Gothic mystery surrounding Wuthering Heights. They also heighten the tension in the novel which is initially established with Lockwood's arrival and his strange treatment by Heathcliff. All of these occurrences eventually lead Lockwood to try to solve these mysteries by asking Nelly Dean about Heathcliff and that leads to her narrative of the rest of the story.

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    Posted by ms-mcgregor on Thursday December 11, 2008 at 7:19 PM

  2. lastoftheenglishroses
    lastoftheenglishroses

    Lockwoods dream happens just after this, so its ike Bronte is trying to make lockwood scared of Cathy. And this adds to the mystery and makes readers move on to find out what Lockwood could be afraid of.

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    Posted by lastoftheenglishroses on Monday April 20, 2009 at 5:26 AM