In chapter 29 of Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff tells Nelly Dean about how he dug up Catherine's body just after she was buried, back in chapter sixteen. Heathcliff went alone to the churchyard and, wild in grief for Catherine, dug down to her coffin and attempted to wrench it open.
Heathcliff tells Nelly that he persuaded the sexton to dig up Catherine's grave. He stares at her dusty corpse and bribes the sexton to put his body next to hers when he dies. He has no fear of disturbing the dead, he tells Nelly. Cathy has been haunting him for eighteen years.
Summary: Chapter XXIX
Heathcliff appears at Thrushcross Grange shortly after the funeral in order to take Cathy to her new home. He tells her that he has punished Linton for having helped her escape, and says that she will have to work for her keep at Wuthering Heights.
After Catherine's death in Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff begins a slow descent into madness. One after the other, everyone he once hated and sought revenge on has died, including Hindley, Edgar, Isabella, and Linton, the son he shared with Isabella.
When the grave-digger was digging Linton's grave, Heathcliff got him to open Catherine's. She still looked beautiful, and he bribed the man to knock out the side of their coffins, so they could lie together forever.
Catherine gives birth to a daughter, Cathy, delivering her two months early—the baby is born at midnight, and Catherine passes away two hours later. Upon hearing the news from Nelly, Heathcliff seems to already be aware.
Q: Why is the gravedigger scene in Hamlet important? The gravedigger scene is important in Hamlet because it both represents comic-relief and tragedy. It is in this scene that Hamlet accepts his mortality and fate.
She never tells Edgar that she wishes she would never be parted from him. Heathcliff responds that he forgives her for what she has done to him, but that he can never forgive her for what she has done to herself.
On Catherine's death, Heathcliff's desperate response is: And I pray one prayer—I repeat it till my tongue stiffens—Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you—haunt me, then!… Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad!
Wuthering Heights masquerades as a love story, but it is really a study of trauma. Catherine and Heathcliff both have Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder and also shows signs of BPD.
He believes that presence to have been Catherine: her spirit, not her body which lay useless in the ground. He then refilled the grave and went home, feeling the spirit with him as he went.
Heathcliff is buried next to Catherine. Although not explicitly stated, the suggestion is that the side of his coffin and Catherine's were removed so that they lay together.
Shortly after a night spent walking on the moors, Heathcliff dies. Hareton and young Catherine inherit Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange, and they plan to be married on the next New Year's Day.
Their relationship is portrayed in scenes of play that quickly become about domination and power. Cathy expresses her love by pulling out Heathcliff's hair and literally licking his wounds. Her actions are no less menacing when she takes advantage of Edgar's weak nature.
For many years he has now lived in the village of Thornton, actually right across the road from the house in which the Brontë sisters were born, before their father, Patrick, took them to Haworth when he took up his job as minister of the village, living in the now-famous parsonage.
After Heathcliff leaves, Nelly discovers that Heathcliff has replaced a lock of Edgar's hair that Catherine kept in her locket with his own hair.
Heathcliff's love for Catherine enables him to endure Hindley's maltreatment after Mr. Earnshaw's death. But after overhearing Catherine admit that she could not marry him, Heathcliff leaves. Nothing is known of his life away from her, but he returns with money.
When Heathcliff returns, he tells her that Catherine is sick, that he blames Edgar, and that he plans on making her suffer in place of Edgar. Nearing death, Catherine knows the next time she goes to the moors will be her last.
I'm too happy; and yet I'm not happy enough. My soul's bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself. ' In these final words before his death, Heathcliff talks to Nelly about his current physical and mental state.
Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.” Perhaps the most famous of all Wuthering Heights quotes, this snippet from Chapter 9 has Catherine expressing her deepest feelings for Heathcliff to the housekeeper Nelly Dean.
Cathy is delighted to see him again, but Linton asks her not to kiss him because it would “take his breath away”. She asks him repeatedly if he is happy to see her again, but he first wondered why she stopped writing to him and he says 'yes' on being with his cousin again.
Love is one of the focal points of Wuthering Heights, a classical novel by Emily Brontë. The author explores multiple characters' affairs. She creates a narrative which describes the romantic involvement through generations. One of them, Catherine Earnshaw, truly loved Heathcliff.
Ophelia will not get a proper burial because it was suicide.
* It was dramatic irony that the gravedigger did not know it was Hamlet he was speaking to when discussing the gossip of the palace: “Cannot you tell that? Ever fool can tell that. It was that very day young Hamlet was born- he that is mad and sent into England,” (Gravedigger V. 1.94).
It is shortly thereafter that the Gravedigger points out a skull that used to belong to Yorick, the king's jester and Hamlet's caretaker. Hamlet asks if this could really be so, and the Gravedigger responds with, "E'en that," (V.i.159), marking his last line in the play.