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Dreams That Transform Perception and Identity
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I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind.
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Isolation and Reflection in Wuthering Heights
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* Mr. Lockwood (Ch. III).
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Reflections on Love and Suffering
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* Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
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Fear and Cruelty in Isolation
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As it spoke I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window. Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bed-clothes: still it wailed, "Let me in!", and maintained its tenacious grip, almost maddening me with fear.
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Reflections on Love and Loss
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* Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
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Observations from Mr. Lockwood's Perspective
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* Mr. Lockwood (Ch. I).
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A Dignified Entrance on a Pony
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Instead of a wild, hatless little savage jumping into the house, and rushing to squeeze us all breathless, there lighted from a handsome black pony a very dignified person with brown ringlets falling from the cover of a feathered beaver, and a long cloth habit which she was obliged to hold up with both hands that she might sail in.
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Reflections on Love and Isolation
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* Mr. Lockwood (Ch. IV).
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Reflections on Love and Suffering
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* Nelly Dean (Ch. VIII).
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Consequences of Crossing Boundaries
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No, reprobate! You are a castaway - be off, or I'll hurt you seriously! I'll have you all modeled in wax and clay; and the first who passes the limits I fix, shall — I'll not say what he shall be done to — but, you'll see! Go, I'm looking at you!
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Catherine's Reflection on Love and Identity
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* Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. IX).
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Protecting Hareton from Harmful Impulses
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I went to hide little Hareton, and to take the shot out of the master's fowling-piece, which he was fond of playing with in his insane excitement, to the hazard of the lives of any who provoked, or even attracted his notice too much; and I had hit upon the plan of removing it, that he might do less mischief if he did go the length of firing the gun.
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The Impact of Character on Appearance
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A good ] will help you to a bonny face, my lad", I continued, "if you were a regular black, and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.
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The Complexity of Love and Loss
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* Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
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Nelly Dean's Perspective on Heathcliff
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* Nelly Dean on Heathcliff (Ch. IV).
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Pride Leads to Personal Suffering
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
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Atmospheric Turmoil in Wuthering Heights
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Wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in ] weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the ].
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A Description of Innocent Beauty
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Her position before was sheltered from the light: now, I had a distinct view of her whole figure and countenance. She was slender, and apparently scarcely past girlhood: an admirable form, and the most exquisite little face that I have ever had the pleasure of beholding: small features, very fair; flaxen ringlets, or rather golden, hanging loose on her delicate neck; and eyes — had they been agreeable in expression, they would have been irresistible.
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Catherine Earnshaw's Complex Nature Explored
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* Nelly Dean on Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. VII).
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Mr. Lockwood's Impression of Catherine Linton
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* Mr. Lockwood on Catherine Linton (Ch. II).
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Finding Solitude in Self-Sufficiency
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I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.
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Critique of Self-Righteousness in Wuthering Heights
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He was, and is yet most likely, the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible to rake the promises to himself and fling the curses to his neighbours.
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Caution Advised Around Difficult Individuals
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Rough as a saw-edge, and hard as whinstone! The less you meddle with him the better.
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Catherine's Defiance of Social Expectations
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* Catherine Linton to Joseph (Ch. III).
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Self-Reflection on Attributes and Perception
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No, I'm running on too fast: I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him.
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Nelly Dean's Perspective on Joseph
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* Nelly Dean on Joseph (Ch. V).
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Isolation and Reflection in Wuthering Heights
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* Mr. Lockwood (Ch. III).
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Struggle with Solitude and Independence
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What vain weathercocks we are! I, who had determined to hold myself independent of all social intercourse, and thanked my stars that at length I had lighted on a spot where it was next to impracticable. I, weak wretch, after maintaining till dusk a struggle with low spirits and solitude, was finally compelled to strike my colours; and under pretence of gaining information concerning the necessities of my establishment, I desired Mrs. Dean.
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Mr. Lockwood's Observations on Heathcliff
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* Mr. Lockwood on Heathcliff (Ch. I).
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The Importance of Early Productivity
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A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
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