Summary

The story starts somewhere in Great-Britain (England). Mr Lockwood asks his housekeeper Nelly Dean to tell the story of Heathcliff. The owner of Wuthering Heights Mr Earnshaw brings home an orphan boy. His son Hindley hates the boy, but his sister Catherine seemed to feel natural attracted to him, she loves him more than herself. One day Catherine and Heathcliff go to Thrushcross Grange, but when a dog has taken her, only she is allowed to go in. When she comes back, 5 weeks after, she is changed, now she behaves like a lady. She tells Nelly Dean she can not marry Heathcliff because he is socially inferior to her. Heathcliff after he heard this disappears and doesn’t come back till after 3 years, when  and Edgar are happy at Trushcross Grange. He visits her and each visit is full of emotion, Edgar is jealous and says H’s visits make Catherine ill. Catherine dies in childbirth, with a broken heart. Isabella marries Heathcliff and they get a child Linton Heathcliff Hindley dies and his son Hareton and Heathcliff live at Wuthering Heights The little Cathy, having seen Linton Heathcliff, loves him very much. And after she has find out that he lives at Wuthering Heights she visits him secretly, her father has forbidden it. Heathcliff then forces Cathy to marry Linton, but Linton dies soon. Edgar dies too. Cathy falls in love with Hareton, who she begins to teach. Heathcliff dies and he feels united with Catherine. Mr Lockwood visits Wuthering Heights twice, but the second time he catches a cold and he has been laid up for a long time. Mrs Dean keeps him company and tells the story of Wuthering Heights One day Mr Earnshaw brings home a little villain. He loves the boy and so does his daughter, but Hindley, his son hates the wicked boy and after his father has died, he forbid the boy to keep them company. Heathcliff has to much heavy work, but Catherine still loves him and sometimes, like before, they wander through the moors. One evening they decide to go to Trushcross Grange, but the dogs are free, and Catherine is cached by one of them. Only she is allowed to go in and she remains there for 5 weeks. She has changed considerably after her stay; she has become a lady. But her affection for Heathcliff hasn’t changed. Heathcliff has been thoroughly neglected and looks like a savage. One evening Catherine tells Nelly Dean how much she loves Heathcliff, she says: “His mind and the mine are the same.” But she tells that she has accepted Edgar, but in heart and soul she feels that is wrong. Heathcliff having overheard part of the conversation disappears a number of years. The night Heathcliff runs away, a thunderstorm breaks. Catherine marries Edgar, but she is not at all happy, by times she is depressed, but it seems to be a happy time, full of rest and peace at Trushcross Grange When Heathcliff returns and visits here she welcomes him as her lost brother and she can not stop looking at him and kissing him. Heathcliff has changed; he has become more decent. Edgar doesn’t like the visits of Heathcliff because Catherine seems to forget Edgar and Catherine becomes very restless and depressed and sad. Catherine becomes unmanageable and her only desire is to be at Wuthering Heights, to be with Heathcliff after death. Isabella falls in love with Heathcliff and though he didn’t like her at all, he marries her because he knows that Edgar doesn’t like that. (REVENGE). Heathcliff lives with Hindley, who is gambling all the time and finally has lost all his money to Heathcliff, and Hareton and Isabella at Wuthering Heights. Edgar is not interested in Isabella any more; she is not his sister anymore because she has married Heathcliff Isabella sends a letter in which she writes about her bad circumstances and Heathcliff’s detestable behaviour. But Edgar doesn’t take steps to bring about reconciliation with her. During the following visit of Heathcliff both Catherine and he accuse each other of torture and both are violent overcome with emotion. They seem broken-hearted. Catherinedies, after the birth of her baby, leaving Edgar distracted with grief. Heathcliff calls on Catherine to haunt him as long as he lives. Isabella flees to London, where her son Linton was born. After Catherine’s death Edgar becomes almost a hermit and Cathy becomes his great joy and consolation. Hindley dies and Heathcliff becomes master of wutheriWuthering Heightsng heights After Isabella’s death Edgar takes Linton back home. Cathy is fond of him, but that night Joseph comes to tell that Heathcliff wants Linton for his own at Wuthering Heights So the following day he has disappeared and Cathy doesn’t know to where and is very sad. On Catherine’s sixteenth birthday she and Nelly meet on a walk Heathcliff and he tells Catherine to come with him, because he wants to show her somebody, she has seen before. Catherine meets Linton and is wild of joy, but Heathcliff tells her not to say anything to her father because once the quar- relled and her father hates him now. Nelly forbids her to visit him once more, but Cathy secretly writes to him. She and Nelly meet Heathcliff once again and he stays that she must be ashamed because Linton is dying and thinking she despises him. Nell Dean catches a cold and Edgar is ill too. And in the evening, having nursed Nelly and her dad, she visits Linton secretly. But it comes out and he forbids her to go. Linton writes letters, supervised by Heathcliff, so that he doesn’t refer on his ill health to Edgar. Edgar finally allowed Cathy to go once a week because he desires that she marries him, because he is the heir of Wuthering Heights Heathcliff locks up Catherine and Nelly, he wants to force C to marry Linton. Catherine says she will willingly do that if only he let her go home to be with her dying father. After 5 days Nelly is allowed to go and she finds Edgar dying the same day Cathy comes having prevailed on Linton to unlock the door. After the funeral Heathcliff trusts to Nelly that he has opened the coffin of Catherine to see once more her face. Cathy Heathcliff and Hareton live at Wuthering Heights but Hareton and Catherine are not good friends till one day their antipathy turned to love. Hareton and she are drawn together as rebels against Heathcliff and Heathcliff changes. He is defeated by the power of love and friendship and he has only one desire: to die and to be with his only love together, Catherine. He goes out at night, cannot eat or drink, says he sees her, but cannot yet touch her, finally he dies. Hareton and Cathy marry and remove to Trushcross Grange.

Dutch questions

Vraag / opdracht 1

De twee boeken die ik gelezen heb zijn: A Christmas Carol en Wuthering Heithts. Het mooiste en het meest begrijpelijke verhaal vind ik A Christmas Carol omdat daar een goed verhaal inzit wat makkelijk te begrijpen is. In Wuthering Heithts zitten erg veel personages met dezelfde namen en het verhaal is erg gecompliceerd. Het boek A Christmas Carol past beter bij mij en dat vond ik ook wel een leuk boek om te luisteren. Daar kon ik mijn aandacht wil bijhouden. Wuthering Heithts was veel te moeilijk voor mij. Ik had veel hulp nodig anders was het nooit gelukt.

Vraag opdracht 2

Ik zou mijn klasgenoten dit boek nooit aanbevelen. Zeker geen dyslectische leeftijdsgenoten. Het is een erg saai en vervelend verhaal. Het sprak me ook totaal niet aan en ik vond het veel te moeilijk om te lezen. Ik snapte er niets van. Om nog een beetje een beeld bij alles te krijgen ben ik de lange versie DVD gaan kijken (4,5 uur). Als ik dit niet had gedaan was ik er niet aan begonnen om er een verslag van te maken. Misschien dat er leeftijdsgenoten zijn die dit genre boek (roman)  en de tijd waarin het speelt wel leuk vinden, maar ik zie dit boek niet bij mijn leeftijdsgenoten in de kast liggen.

Vraag opdracht 3

Ik vond het lezen van deze twee boeken heel vervelend en vermoeiend. Ik heb er ontzettend veel tijd in gestoken en heb ondanks dat nog wel de ondersteuning van de film nodig gehad om de beide verhalen goed te kunnen begrijpen  Vooral het tweede boek was veel te moeilijk voor mij. Ik weet dat ik deze vaardigheden moet opdoen  en dat het lezen van boeken voor iedereen verplicht is maar zelf heb ik de indruk dat ik mijn tijd beter kan besteden aan andere dingen.

Dat VWO leerlingen verplicht zijn dit soort dingen te doen vind ik wel begrijpelijk omdat zij later vaak voor een universitaire opleiding kiezen. Daar wordt veel meer met de Engelse taal gewerkt en dan komen die vaardigheden goed van pas.

  English questions Categorie A

Question  3 Describe the most important event in the book.

I think that a important event in the book is that ( Mr. Earnshaw, the master of Wuthering Heights ) went to Liverpool and before he asked his children what they want to have. Catherine  asks for a whip and Hindley asks for a fiddle. But three days later Mr. Earnshaw returns with a little boy who was just big enough to walk and talk. He was an orphan and they called him Heathcliff . This is the moment that Heathcliff is coming into Catherine~s live and became here new brother.

Question 1 Mention two characteristic qualities of a person in your book. Explain for both  qualities what things in the book give you the idea that the person you are writing about has this quality.

Mr. Heathcliff is a man with a gypsy-like appearance who has black eyes and a dark forehead. He is a gentleman in dress and manners. Heathcliff has also a lot of bad sides in his character- he appears impatient, unfriendly and suspicious. The only thing Mr.Lockwood noticed during his visit is that Heathcliff is intelligent, good-looking and upright. I really don t like Heatcliff because he only cares about himself. He hasn t changed at the end of the book.

Categorie B

Question 5 Are there any tragic persons, circumstances or events in the book. If so, explain what you think so sad about this person or these circumstances.

A very tragic circumstance is that Catherine is saying to Nelly that she will marry  Edgar Linton. But in her soul and heart she is convinced that she is wrong to marry Edgar Linton. She is in love with Heathcliff but Heathcliff has nothing to offer her. She said: I would degrade me to marry Heathcliff but after that she said: whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same! She doesn t know that Heathcliff had listened. Then Heatclifff leaved the room , was very disappointed and stayed away for three years. It was a misunderstanding .

Question 6 In life people do not always get what they deserve. This happens in the book as well. Can you give an example of this and write a few lines about this subject.

Catherine loves Heathcliff. But one day Heathcliff came to the Grange and when he thought no one was looking he kissed  Isabella  (the sister of Edgar Linton) . Nelly saw it happens and she told Catherine, who became furios. Edgar became furious too and gives Catherine an ultimatum . She must choose between her husband and her friend. Heathcliff and Catherine loved each other but they can not speak  it out. Maybe she deserve it to be unhappy because she earlier said that it would degrade her to marry Heathcliff

Categorie C

Question 1 Mention two characters in your book that have a good relationship with each other. What makes this relationship so good?

Cathy Linton and Hareton  Earnshaw .  They had a good relationship with each other. First Cathy was married with Linton Heathcliff but when he died she was forced to live with his father Heathcliff.  There she met Hareton and falls in love with him. The relationship of Cathy and Hareton develop from the jailer and his inmate to true love . Cathy restores Hareton s dignity helping him to get educated .

Question 5 Describe a conflict in the book. Who are involved in it? What is the conflict about? How is the conflict solved?

Edgar made sure that  if Isabella is going to live with Heathcliff  it would separate her from her family forever. Two months passed, and they received no word from Isabella. Then Edgar received a note from Isabella telling him that she had married  Heathcliff  but Edgar did not answer. Isabella next letter was written to Nelly, she wrote about her horrible situation at the time.  Heathcliff blamed her brother for  Catherines  fever and used her to take revenge on her brother by treating her very badly. So he loves his wife less than he loves Catherine. Heathcliff is taken revenge on Edgar because  Edgar is not taken care for Catherine and that is a very strange situation. This conflict is never solved.