Wuthering Heights, Leaving Cert Revision Notes
Wuthering Heights
English – Leaving Cert
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Wuthering Heights
Chapter 1
The novel opens with Lockwood writing in his diary in 1801. He reflects on a recent first visit with his landlord, Heathcliff, and the first few days as a tenant at Thrushcross Grange, an isolated manor in Yorkshire. He describes Heathcliff; though he thinks of him initially as a “capitol fellow” (3) upon meeting Heathcliff, he finds him to be a surly, dark man “his black eyes [withdrawing] so suspiciously under their b...