External Crisis Throughout Wuthering Heights - 1518 Words

External Crisis Throughout Wuthering Heights. While reading Emily Bronte s classic Wuthering Heights you are taken on a journey of love and obsession, betrayal and revenge and a tragedy of wasted passion and lost potential. The book Wuthering Heights is told through the perspective of a written diary owned by a man, this man being Mr. Lockwood. In 1801, Mr. Lockwood rents the property Thrushcross Grange, a property owned by the mysterious Mr. Heathcliff of Wuthering Heights. Upon meeting Mr.Heathcliff, Mr. Lockwood is face with a brooding and mysterious man. After spending an eerie night in Wuthering Heights due to a storm Mr. Lockwood becomes curious and intriged by his new landlord, his property and there history. Lockwood inquires to his house servant Nelly Dean to tell him the history behind Thrushcross Grange, The Heights and the elusive Mr.Heathcliff. Nelly agrees to humor Lockwoods demand and sets upon recounting all history she has witnessed to Mr.Lockwood, in which Lockwood write in his diary from her perspective. (Thus incorporating the true Narrator of this Novel) Nelly starts her story from the time that she became a servant as a young girl at Wuthering Heights for the Earnshaw family. Lockwood records that on day when Mr. Earnshaw returned to his family from a trip to Liverpool, England he came with an orphaned gypsy boy, one that he would name Heathcliff. Catherine, Hindley and Mrs.Earnshaw to an immediate disliking to the boy that Mr.