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Wuthering Heights Act 1 Notes
Overarching Theme: The complexities of the characters in Wuthering Heights
-Heathcliff is portrayed as an embittered and manipulative individual who resorts to cowardly tactics to achieve his desired outcomes, a behaviour likely stemmed from the abuse he experienced from his alcoholic brother.
-The narrative structure,
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Briefly Carleton considered the other man, of whom he’d made such a study he might have been appointed professor of Thomas Studies at the University of Essex. He knew, for example, that Thomas was a confirmed bachelor, as they say, never seen in the company of a beautiful young person or a stately older one; that he had about him the melancholy
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I took a medium-sized bottle of Jim Beam and drank from it under the covers while reading No Man Is an Island by Thomas Merton. Without God, we are no longer persons. We become dumb animals under pain, happy if we can behave at least like quiet animals and die without too much confusion.