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Supernatural motif (Heathcliff feels Catherine's presence following…
Supernatural motif (Heathcliff feels Catherine's presence following Edgar Linton's death / all the time, Catherine's Death , Zillah thinks WH is haunted, Joseph thinking Catherine's a witch and her acting as one, Discussion of Heathcliff
and Cathy after death, Lockwood's dream: "my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, ‘Let me in - let me in!’ ‘Who are you?’ I asked, struggling, meanwhile, to disengage myself. ‘Catherine Linton,’ it replied, shiveringly (why did I think of LINTON? I had read EARNSHAW twenty times for Linton) - ‘I’m come home: I’d lost my way on the moor!’ As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child’s face looking through the window. Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its
wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, ‘Let me in!’ and maintained its tenacious gripe, almost maddening me with fear. ‘How can I!’ I said at length. ‘Let ME go, if you want me to let you in!’ The fingers relaxed, I snatched mine through the hole, hurriedly piled the books up in a pyramid against it, and
stopped my ears to exclude the lamentable prayer. I seemed to keep them closed above a quarter of an hour; yet, the instant I listened again, there was the doleful cry
moaning on! ‘Begone!’ I shouted. ‘I’ll never let you in, not if you beg for twenty years.’ ‘It is twenty years,’ mourned the voice: ‘twenty years. I’ve been a waif for twenty years!’ Thereat began a feeble scratching outside,
and the pile of books moved as if thrust forward " (21-22), Discussion about Lockwood geting home after his second visit, ’For the use of such ghosts as choose to inhabit it?’ I
observed.
’No, Mr. Lockwood,’ said Nelly, shaking her head. ‘I
believe the dead are at peace: but it is not right to speak of
them with levity.’ , Conclusion: Supernatural motif adds to the dark and mystic mood; characterizes Heathcliff and shows his passion and beliefs, shows mental strain as Catherine's spirit drives him mad)