So, Wuthering Heights was the first classic I ever read, and I know I missed a lot the first time I read it, so I just started it over again. I also restarted it because its amazing. But there's something that's going to annoy me if I don't know the answer. Is there really any meaning to Mr. Lockwood or is he just there to set up the story and make it possible?
"Who ever loved that loved not at first sight?" -- Christopher Marlowe
He is just a tool to tell the story too. He has his own judgements and thoughts but we are only interested in what he is being told.
I agree with Thespian1975. He is Emily Bronte's vehicle for the development of the narration. However, I think that he prepares the pace, the setting for our introduction to Heathcliff, Cathy, Hearton, and the whole "environment" of Wuthering Heights. It is through him that we are introduced to Heathcliff' s harsh behaviour, it is through him that we initially read about the chidlhood of Catherine and Heathcliff, and he participates in the striking scene of the nightmare in the little closet-room. I would also support that what Lockwood believes about the story told by Nelly, may represent what the majority of the readers may think.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
-Goethe
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Last edited by kev67; 11-17-2012 at 02:35 PM. Reason: transferred to another thread
According to Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence once said that Balzac was 'a gigantic dwarf', and in a sense the same is true of Dickens.
Charles Dickens, by George Orwell
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