Chapter+12

=The Crazed Catherine Chapter=

__EVENTS or DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS CHAPTER:__ After residing alone in her room torn between her love for Heathcliff and Mr. Linton, Catherine discussed and displayed her madness to Nelly distressed of her husband's unsympathetic concern as she wallowed in her own self-pity. Catherine is convinced that she is going to die and has a fit over her severe inner conflict while her mood and aggression changes throughout Nelly's visit. Although Catherine is sleep-deprived and delirious, she refuses to go to bed against Nelly's advice. Catherine longs for the moors and her childhood and becomes desperate for Heathcliff's love. Edgar learns of Catherine's ill state and Nelly is blamed for keeping her knowledge of Catherine from him as well as allowing Heathcliff to enter the Grange. While he manages to calm Catherine, Nelly discovers that Isabella has run off with Heathcliff. Soon enough the whole Grange becomes unsettled by Catherine's sickness and Isabella's abandonment. Edgar refuses to accept Isabella's choice and ultimately shuns her from his life.

__3 IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS FROM THIS CHAPTER (and why):__

"I'll not lie there by myself: they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me, but I won't rest till you [Heathcliff] are with me. I never will!"- Catherine pg. 116 By exposing her passionate feelings towards Heathcliff, Catherine affirms her true love for him even though he isn't her husband. Her desparation yet anxiety for his presence desplays her madness and her intimate inner emotions which display an undercover longing for Heathcliff's love over Edgar's.

"I don't want you, Edgar: I'm past wanting you. Return to your books. I'm glad you possess a consolation, for all you had in me is gone."- Catherine pg. 117 Catherine's bold statement illustrates her honest regards for Edgar as more of a temporary romance. She now understands her only love is Heathcliff and Edgar is shorthanded when it comes to satisfying her true love needs. She's is reluctant to accept Edgar's aid and becomes brutal in exposing her honest emmotions.

"Hereafter she is only my sister in name: not because I disown her, but beause she has disowned me."- Edgar pg. 122 By taking away both Catherine and now his sister, Edgar takes any acknowledgement of Heathcliff as a threat to his own position. As Isabella has run away with Heathcliff, Edgar views it as a rebellion against their brother/sisterhood and puts their relationship on the terms by which Isabella has declared. This disownment plays a later role in the novel as Isabella suffers under Heathcliff's hand.

__THEMATIC CONNECTIONS and MOTIFS:__

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