#catherine linton

[lausdoodles]

Wuthering heightssss

i'm not normal about this book tbh

#art #fanart #digital art #character design #wuthering heights #catherine earnshaw #heathcliff #edgar linton #isabella linton #wuthering heights heathcliff #hareton earnshaw #cathy linton #catherine linton #mrlockwood #nelly dean #ellen dean #emily bronte #bronte sisters #gothic books

[burningvelvet]

wuthering heights in memes (p2)

wuthering heights and thrushcross grange:

heathcliff writing love letters to cathy 2.0 under his sons name:

linton heathcliff:

hindley when heathcliff knocks at the door:

aaaand heathcliff, right before reducing hindley to a bloody puddle:

everyone when heathcliff shows up after 3 years:

anything: happens

joseph:

[heathcliff talking to infant hareton after hindley's death] ". . . previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!' The unsuspecting thing was pleased at this speech: he played with Heathcliff's whiskers, and stroked his cheek . . ."

heathcliff, 3 seconds after marrying isabella:

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[amphibimations]

#wuthering heights #catherine linton #nelly dean

[princesssarisa]

In response to this post reblogged by @faintingheroine, here's an outline of the uses of "Catherine" and "Cathy" throughout Wuthering Heights to refer to both Catherine Earnshaw and her daughter Catherine Linton.

I just copied and pasted an online edition of the book into a Word document, then used the Find option to searched for every instance of either "Catherine" or "Cathy."

Catherine Earnshaw never calls herself "Cathy." Whenever she speaks or writes her own name, it's always "Catherine."

Mr. Earnshaw only calls his daughter "Cathy."

Likewise, Hindley always calls his sister "Cathy" when speaking to her, but he refers to her as "Miss Catherine" when speaking to Heathcliff – sending the message that this is how he wants Heathcliff to address her.

Nelly calls her both "Catherine" and "Cathy" throughout her narration and her spoken dialogue alike. But her proportion of "Catherines" to "Cathys" gradually changes. She almost exclusively says "Cathy" when the latter is a little girl, then uses the two names interchangeably during her preteen and earlier teen years, but comes to use just "Catherine" after her marriage.

While Nelly talks about her, either in her narration or to other characters, she usually just says "Catherine" or "Cathy," only now and then adding a formal "Miss." But when she speaks to her, unless I'm mistaken, she always says "Miss Catherine," "Miss Cathy," or later, "Mrs. Linton."

Heathcliff calls her "Cathy" and "Catherine" interchangeably, but he slightly favors "Cathy," and unlike Nelly, he continues using "Cathy" after her marriage and after her death too.

Edgar only calls his wife "Catherine." Nelly points this out and speculates that Heathcliff's habit of saying "Cathy" made Edgar averse to calling her that.

Isabella almost always calls her "Catherine" too, but she does utter one "Cathy" in anger as they argue about Heathcliff.

Joseph refers to her as "Dame Catherine" once and as "Miss Cathy" twice.

Lockwood only refers to her as "Catherine."

Catherine Linton doesn't say her own name as often as her mother did, but she seems open to thinking of herself as either "Catherine" or "Cathy." When Linton calls her "Miss," she asks him to use either of the two names instead.

Once again, Nelly calls her "Cathy" or "Catherine" interchangeably until her marriage, at which point she switches almost entirely to "Catherine." But to the end, she still lets a "Cathy" slip now and then, which she didn't with the elder Catherine.

Nor does Nelly only call her "Miss Catherine" or "Miss Cathy" when speaking to her; sometimes she drops formality and just calls her "Catherine" or "Cathy" to her face.

Edgar only calls his daughter "Cathy"; it's his way of distinguishing her from her mother. So when he calls for "Catherine" on his deathbed, though Nelly responds as if he means his daughter, we can safely assume that he's really calling for his dead wife.

By contrast, Heathcliff only calls her "Catherine."

Linton also just uses "Catherine," even after she invites him to say "Cathy" if he likes.

Despite being her ultimate love interest, Hareton only speaks her name twice, fairly early in their acquaintance, and both times it's "Miss Catherine."

As with her mother, Lockwood only thinks of her as "Catherine" too.

Conclusion? "Cathy" is used as a family nickname (with servants included among the family circle who use it), and in particular as a childhood nickname. In both generations, Nelly seems to instinctively avoid using it once the girl becomes a married woman, nor does either Catherine's husband use it. The fact that Nelly still occasionally calls the second Catherine "Cathy" to the end of the book highlights her motherly affection for her. And the fact that Heathcliff freely calls Catherine Earnshaw "Cathy" to the end is probably a reminder that he's just as much family as a love interest to her, and that he always views her as his childhood companion.

#wuthering heights #catherine earnshaw #catherine linton #character names #nicknames

[bethanydelleman]

There is something very Miranda & Caliban about Catherine Linton & Hareton Earnshaw meeting for the first time.

Miranda & Catherine: women who have been raised and educated in isolation by their father, seeing a new person for the first time

Caliban & Hareton: orphans who at one time were educated and cherished, only to be reduced to servitude and savagery (one for just cause, the other by no fault of his own)

And yet the endings could not be more opposite.

#cathy 2 #the tempest #wuthering heights #Catherine has never met anyone outside her home and was raised and educated by her father #emily brontë #shakespeare #miranda #caliban #hareton earnshaw #catherine linton

[haunted-phantom-student]

On a scale of Severus Snape to Heathcliff, how badly do you treat the child of your dead long-lost love purely out of longtime hatred towards their father and resentment that she chose him over you?

#literature meme #literature memes #classic lit #classic lit meme #wuthering heights #harry potter #wuthering heights meme #harry potter meme #heathcliff #catherine earnshaw #catherine linton #severus snape #lily evans

[painterlad71]

the difference between linton and heathcliff is that linton is content with walking to catherine's grave and heathcliff has to dig her up.

#wuthering heights #catherine earnshaw #catherine linton #gothic literature #grave digging #boundary issues #selfish love #edgar linton #heathcliff the landlord #love

[umactuallycallie]

Cathy from wuthering heights because I’m incredibly attached to her and heathcliff lmao

#Catherine heathcliff #cathy fanart #wuthering heights #wuthering heights fanart #catherine earnshaw #catherine Linton #my art

[wuffgang-ameowdeus-moozart]

Wuthering Heights as Onion Headlines:

Heathcliff:

The entire household:

Linton whenever Heathcliff comes visit:

Everyone whenever Heathcliff does anything:

Hindley Earnshaw:

Heathcliff after he overhears Cathy's and Nelly's conversation:

Literally everyone tbh:

Heathcliff seeing Cathy (Jr.) and Linton (Jr.) getting along:

#wuthering heights #heathcliff #catherine earnshaw #catherine linton #edgar linton #linton heathcliff #nelly dean #hareton earnshaw #hindley earnshaw #i love this book so much #how can people say that this is boring

[lizzie-queenofmeigas]

When Cathy says: He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Me: screaming, crying, throwing myself out of the window.

Emily Brontë, why do you hurt me so?

#wuthering heights #catherine earnshaw #catherine linton #heathcliff wuthering heights #first time reading Wuthering Heights #emily bronte

[pristina-nomine]

…but you have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!

#cathy linton #wuthering heights #letteratura #moodboards #emily bronte #catherine linton #wh edits

[burningvelvet]

wuthering heights in memes

edgar linton getting to heaven and looking to be reunited with his beloved wife catherine:

hareton meeting catherine for the first time:

ghost catherine out on the moors waiting for heathcliff to fucking croak already:

heathcliff at his window for the 20th consecutive night in a row waiting for ghost cathy to come back again:

hindley bonding with baby hareton:

hindley and heathcliff the entire novel:

hindley when he lets heathcliff take advantage of his alcohol-related debt by becoming his creditor:

#wuthering heights #heathcliff #heathcliff wuthering heights #literature #catherine earnshaw #english literature #edgar linton #meme #memes #lit memes #literature memes #hareton earnshaw #catherine linton

[amphibimations]

#wuthering heights #catherine linton #hareton earnshaw

[princesssarisa]

Some time ago, I remember a post from @faintingheroine about Wuthering Heights, criticizing the fact that young Cathy has to stop speaking out against Heathcliff because of Hareton's love for him. I agree that this aspect of the plot deserves to be questioned. Heathcliff is young Cathy's captor and abuser. The fact that Hareton not only fails to defend her against him the way she hoped he would, but insists that she not even speak negatively of him, and that her acquiescence is portrayed as a good thing (at least by Nelly), isn't an entirely comfortable plot point, to say the least.

But I think I can offer at least a slight defense of it.

It means that Cathy stands by Hareton even when there's no apparent hope that he'll ever reclaim his father's land and money. Even after Hareton learns the truth about Heathcliff's dealings with Hindley, he has no desire to claim his rightful inheritance because he's too loyal to Heathcliff, which means he'll be living like a laborer as long as Heathcliff is alive. No one knows at this point that Heathcliff will die in just a few days, or that he'll die without making a will, leaving the property to default to Hareton. As far as they know, in all but his birth, Hareton is a nobody with nothing and will stay that way. Yet unlike her mother with young Heathcliff, Cathy doesn't abandon him so as not to be degraded. (Not that the elder Catherine thought she was abandoning Heathcliff by choosing to marry Edgar, but that was her own naïveté and/or self-delusion.)

More than once in the past, I've seen @faintingheroine and others express discomfort with Hareton's status as a "prince in disguise," and feel as if it makes the novel's ending all too conservative. They've noted that while it's tempting to view young Cathy and Hareton as "elder Cathy and Heathcliff redux" and see the daughter as correcting her mother's mistake by embracing her love for the poor, rugged stable boy, it's not really the same, because Hareton isn't a gutter child like Heathcliff was, but the rightful heir to Wuthering Heights. That's all very true. But the fact that Cathy doesn't abandon Hareton after she fails to turn him against Heathcliff shows that she's come to care for him as a person, not because he's the rightful heir. It arguably makes her love for him more progressive and more a case of correcting her mother's mistake after all.

Nor does Cathy stop defying Heathcliff altogether. She continues her friendship with Hareton even though Heathcliff forbade it, and she continues teaching him to read, slowly undoing the harm Heathcliff did by denying him an education. And Hareton is a willing participant. Despite his devotion to Heathcliff, he goes against Heathcliff's will and risks being thrown out by staying friends with Cathy and receiving her lessons. These simple facts make Cathy's acquiescence to Hareton's request that she not criticize Heathcliff seem less like submission and more like a compromise.

Feel free to agree or disagree, but these are my thoughts.

#wuthering heights #catherine linton #hareton earnshaw #heathcliff

[starcrossedluvr]

haunting the moors all by yourself handsome?

#wuthering heights #the brontës #emily brontë #heathcliff #cathy earnshaw #catherine earnshaw #catherine linton #heathcathy #cathycliff

[hiekka]

redraw/overpaint of my wuthering heights drawing from last year

“I knew no living thing in flesh and blood was by; 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.”

#Wuthering Heights #emily bronte #catherine linton #catherine earnshaw #Heathcliff