Theme Of Lockwood's First Dream

Lockwood’s first dream starts as he and Joseph “[flounder] on” in the snow, with Joseph “[wearying him] with constant reproaches that [he has] not brought a pilgrim’s staff, telling [him he] could never get into the house without one, and boastfully flourishing a heavy-headed cudgel” (18). The dream-logic merges the staff and the cudgel into one, although one is a tool to assist in walking while the other is a weapon. The incongruence ought to point out that Lockwood is indeed in a dream – and “for a moment [he] considered it absurd that [he] should need a weapon to gain admittance into [his own] residence” (18). However, Lockwood instead realizes he and Joseph “[are] journeying to hear the famous…Branderham preach” (18). The gap in logic and

She then “[flings the key] into the hottest part of the fire, whereupon Mr. Edgar was taken with a nervous trembling… [filled with] mingled anguish and humiliation” (99). The dream symbol come to construct the symbols of the narrative of Wuthering Heights- mixing the real world with the dream. This again creates a sense of mixture and ambiguity that highlights the uncanny. ADD ANOTHER IMPLICATION. When Lockwood enters the church, “the famous Jabes Branderham [preaches] from… “Seventy Times Seven.” When the preacher discusses 490 sins, and moves on to the 491st, Lockwood denounces the preacher as the “sinner of the sin that no Christian need pardon,” only to have the assembly be against

The existence of an unpardonable sin entails the ceasing of forgiveness, prompting revenge as an answer. This revenge goes to define the actions of the characters in Wuthering Heights. Heathcliff comes back to Wuthering Heights to have revenge against the past actions that Hindley had committed to him. He swindles Hindley of money and takes the property as his own. Hindley does not forgive Heathcliff fort his – instead, he tries to kill him with a pistol with daggers attached to it. Heathcliff also tries to get revenge from the Linton’s for taking Catherine by taking Isabella, the Linton’s youngest, as his bride. The biblical passage provides a moral framework that shapes the attitude of revenge versus forgiveness to not only Catherine and Heathcliff, but also Isabella, Hindley, and others. Most characters take the mindset that a sin conducted onto them cannotbe pardoned – it’s the 491st