How Does Lockwood Build Suspense In Wuthering Heights

On the other hand, suspense can be seen throughout Wuthering Heights through Mr. Lockwood’s experience at the Wuthering Heights estate, Heathcliff’s obsession with Catherine Earnshaw, and the need for revenge. Mr. Lockwood had to spend a night at the estate because he was snowed in and did not know his way home, and Heathcliff refuse to bring him back home. When he first arrived to the estate to visit Heathcliff, he noticed that Heathcliff was displaying erratic behaviour. Heathcliff would just let his dogs attack Lockwood and he treats him in a manner most would not treat their guests. When he stayed the night, he sees the ghost of a young Catherine Earnshaw scratching at his window pane, “ The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I

One reason Catherine may have been depicted scratching at the window is because, “she who has committed the unforgivable sin by marrying Edgar and denying the "natural and elemental affinity" inherent in her love for Heathcliff” (Bell 325-326), this means that she is now paying the price in death for not marrying the man she should have. Later on that night Lockwood experiences another nightmare. He has a nightmare about being brought in front of the church and being accused of sin, then everyone in the church attacks him. Moreover, growing up Heathcliff and Catherine were great friends to each other and they even fell in love with each other; but once they were older, Catherine could not be with him even though she loved him, which began Heathcliff’s unhealthy obsession with her. Catherine then becomes the essence of his life. Everything he does, he does to try and impress

You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry, and wring out my kisses and tears; they'll blight you—they'll damn you. You loved me—then what right had you to leave me?” (Bronte 194-195). Hindley Earnshaw and Heathcliff absolutely despised each other. They both are seeking revenge on the other. Heathcliff wants revenge on Hindley for degrading him since childhood. Hindley degraded Heathcliff through humiliation and abuse from the time he was brought home to the Earnshaw’s to when he came back after being gone for three years. Heathcliff wants Hindley to pay for the years of pain he caused him. Hindley hated Heathcliff from the moment his father brought him home from his business trip instead of the present he asked for. Hindley began “to regard his father as an oppressor rather than a friend; and Heathcliff as a usurper of his parent’s affections and his privileges” (Bronte 44). Hindley would beat on Heathcliff any moment he got. For example, when Mr. Earnshaw got the kids horses when they were younger, Heathcliff wanted to have the horse that Hindley was with. This angered Hindley, which made him push Heathcliff under the colt and he hoped the horse would kill him with one step of its