Chapter+17

=CHAPTER 17: Treachery & Violence= Kelly and Courtney

__EVENTS or DEVELOPMENTS IN THIS CHAPTER:__ Soon after Catherine's funeral, Isabella drunkenly stumbles into Thrushcross Grange to ask Nelly for help. She tells Nelly that Hindley tried to stay sober for the funeral but in the end decided not to even go because it was too hard. While Heathcliff was watching over Catherine's grave, Hindley locked him out but once Heathcliff forcibly made his way in through the window, he beat Hindley badly. The next morning is when Isabella fled to Wuthering Heights.Not too long after, Isabella left for London where she had Linton, Heathcliff's son. Over the years Isabella and Nelly stay in touch and Heathcliff finds out about where she is and that he has a son but doesn't care enough to find them. Isabella dies when Linton is 12 years old. Six months after Catherine's funeral, Hindley dies, leaving Wuthering Heights in the possession of Heathcliff. Nelly intented to bring Hareton back to Thrushcross Grange but Heathcliff wouldn't allow it. He insisted that he will raise him himself. Heathcliff also plans on finding Linton sometime soon. Hareton is forced to work in order to live at Wuthering Heights.

__3 IMPORTANT QUOTATIONS FROM THIS CHAPTER (and why):__ "People feel with their hearts, Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him." -p. 158 Isabella Isabella is talking about Heathcliff and how their relationship turned from what she thought was love, to hatred. He hurt her and she is saying that since he broke her heart, she can't love him like she did before. This shows how drastically things between them have changed.

"But treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends: they wound those who resort to them, worse than their enemies." -p. 160 Nelly Nelly is telling Isabella that violence is not the way to solve her problems because people that resort to violence, only end up hurting themselves. She says if they go after Heathcliff, they will be the ones getting hurt worse than him.

"His weakness was the only time when I could taste the delight of paying wrong for wrong." -p. 165 Isabella Isabella is explaining to Nelly that she couldn't help wanting to hurt Heathcliff. She wanted to know that the reason he was so upset was because of her. He had caused her so much pain and she wanted the satisfaction of knowing that his agony, even if just a little, was caused by her.

__THEMATIC CONNECTIONS and MOTIFS:__ A couple main motifs that were present in this chapter would be locks/keys, windows, and love/hate. Hindley thought it was a smart idea to **lock** Heathcliff out of the house but he just found another way in by climbing through the **window**. There was a lot of love/hate between the relationships of the characters in this chapter. Heathcliff was still madly in **love** with Catherine; Heathcliff and Hindley **hated** each other; Heathcliff didn't care much for Hareton but decided to raise him; Isabella and Heathcliff's relationship, in her eyes, changed from **love** to **hate** but to him, it was always **hate.**