Critically
examine the male-narrated chapters in Wuthering
Heights. / Critically examine the role of Mr.
Lockwood as a narrator in Wuthering
Heights.
Mr.
Lockwood is the frame-narrator
in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, and the recorder of the
main narrative, which is related to him by Nelly Dean, a servant of both
of the two main houses in the story. He is an effete English gentleman who
arrives on the Yorkshire moors for a retreat from city life, and spends most of
his recorded time there listening to Nelly's account
of Heathcliff, the landlord in whose affairs he has taken an
interest:
Mr. Heathcliff forms a
singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gypsy
in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman, that is, as much a gentleman as
many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his
negligence, because he has an erect and handsome figure — and rather morose.
Possibly, some people might suspect him of a degree of under-bred pride; I have
a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the sort: I know, by
instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to showy displays of feeling —
to manifestations of mutual kindliness. He'll love and hate, equally under
cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to be loved or hated again — No,
I'm running on too fast — I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him.
Lockwood is a poor judge of
character. The above impressions, garnered from his first encounter with
Heathcliff, are quickly discarded during the second, when his landlord's surly
disposition fully reveals itself. The two are in fact diametrical opposites —
Heathcliff a moody, vindictive Byronic hero; Lockwood a paragon of
affected posh civility. Whereas we do not know Lockwood's first name,
Heathcliff is without a last, a ruse likely employed to emphasise their
differences................................
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