Linton Heathcliff
Actions and behaviour
· Born near London after Isabella escaped there, after her death he is brought back to Thrushcross Grange by Edgar who aims to take him in. However, Heathcliff finds out and takes him back to Wuthering Heights using his legal rights as the father.
· Heathcliff, who despises him, raises Linton; Heathcliff wants to use Linton to get his hands on both Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights by marrying him off to Catherine [2].
· Linton is scared of Heathcliff and has a strange relationship with Catherine [2] with, at times, he is desperate to cultivate and at others seems to verge on hatred and contempt.
· He is a sickly child and remains so into his (short) adult life. He frequently has fits and often is confined to the house due to his weakness.
· Shortly before his death Linton and Catherine [2] are kidnapped by Heathcliff until they are married. When he dies, Heathcliff, therefore, becomes owner of both houses.
Images with which they are associated
· ‘He said the most pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky, and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly. That was his most perfect idea of heaven’s happiness’ (Catherine [2], Chapter X)
· ‘”Linton’s looks and movements were very languid, and his form extremely slight; but there was a grace in his manner that mitigated these defects, and rendered him not unpleasing.”’ (Nelly, Chapter VII)
· Born near London after Isabella escaped there, after her death he is brought back to Thrushcross Grange by Edgar who aims to take him in. However, Heathcliff finds out and takes him back to Wuthering Heights using his legal rights as the father.
· Heathcliff, who despises him, raises Linton; Heathcliff wants to use Linton to get his hands on both Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights by marrying him off to Catherine [2].
· Linton is scared of Heathcliff and has a strange relationship with Catherine [2] with, at times, he is desperate to cultivate and at others seems to verge on hatred and contempt.
· He is a sickly child and remains so into his (short) adult life. He frequently has fits and often is confined to the house due to his weakness.
· Shortly before his death Linton and Catherine [2] are kidnapped by Heathcliff until they are married. When he dies, Heathcliff, therefore, becomes owner of both houses.
Images with which they are associated
· ‘He said the most pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about among the bloom, and the larks singing high up overhead, and the blue sky, and bright sun shining steadily and cloudlessly. That was his most perfect idea of heaven’s happiness’ (Catherine [2], Chapter X)
· ‘”Linton’s looks and movements were very languid, and his form extremely slight; but there was a grace in his manner that mitigated these defects, and rendered him not unpleasing.”’ (Nelly, Chapter VII)