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Bronte's Wuthering Heights.(Emily Bronte)

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From: The Explicator
Date: 20050322
Author:Caesar, Judith

Wuthering Heights, the novel, is full of dogs; Wuthering Heights, the house, is full of dogs, as is the other house in the novel, Thrushcross Grange. The Heights dogs attack Lockwood twice, and the Grange dogs attack Catherine Earnshaw, dragging her by the ankle into genteel society and the world of Edgar Linton, as Sandra M. Gilbert has argued (92-93). Later, the Heights dogs attack her daughter Catherine Linton's dogs as she passes by on her way to Penistone Craggs, introducing her to the world of Wuthering Heights and Hareton Earnshaw. Dogs being hanged frame Isabella Linton's ...

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