Google Lit Trip

By: Timmy Adams

This page covers some of the important places in the book, Wuthering Heights. It gives an example of when it was used in the book, the importance of the place and a picture.

Setting: The Moors
In text mention: "People familiar with these moors often miss their road on such evenings."
Importance: A field of open infertile land. They make up the area between and around Wuthering Heights and the Grange. Wuthering Heights received its name from the strong winds that blow across these barren hills. Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff loved to play in the moors, and it also becomes a spot of silent, sorrowful wandering for Heathcliff after Catherine dies.
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Setting: Thrushcross Grange
In text mention: “Cathy stayed at Thrushcross Grange five weeks: till Christmas.” 137
Importance: The Linton family home. When Catherine marries Linton, her property, the Grange, is transferred to her husband. Then when he dies, it goes to Heathcliff, Linton’s father. Therefore, Heathcliff became owner of the Heights, Catherine his dependent, and Mr. Lockwood was afforded the opportunity to rent the Grange.
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Setting: Wuthering Heights
In text mention: “Mr. Edgar seldom mustered courage to visit Wuthering Heights openly” 178
Importance: The family home of the Earnshaws since 1500. When Mr. Earnshaw dies, Hindley takes over and rules the house like a tyrant; when he goes mad, Heathcliff takes over and behaves just as badly. Heathcliff, desiring revenge against the Earnshaw’s, takes advantage of Hindley, who gambles away his family home. The Heights becomes the source of Heathcliff’s revenge, as he turns Hindley’s son, who would have been the master of the Heights, into a servant.
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Setting: Liverpool
In text mention: “all that I could make out, amongst her scolding, was a tale of his seeing it starving, and houseless, and as good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool, where he picked it up and inquired for its owner” 98
Importance: During a business trip here, Mr. Earnshaw finds a dark-skinned, inarticulate boy wandering the streets. He cannot find any relatives, so he brings it home to Wuthering Heights. They name him Heathcliff. No one, even the boy, knows his. ancestry or country of origin.
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Setting: Penistone Craggs
In text mention: "Joseph is loading lime on the further side of Penistone crag" 184
Importance: A rock formation that can be seen from the Grange. Cathy wants to see it, but her father warns that it is too dangerous. When Cathy sneaks away to find the Craggs, she passes Wuthering Heights and is forced to enter when Hareton’s dogs attack her own.
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Setting the Fairy cave
In text mention: "This bed is the fairy cave under Penistone" 338
Importance: A cave out on the moors, under Penistone Craggs. In her delirium, Catherine Earnshaw imagines that her sickbed is inside the cave, and that Nelly is planning to hurt her. Years later, when Catherine’s daughter hears about the Fairy cave, she is intrigued.
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Setting: Gimmerton
In text mention: "He told me to put on my cloak and run to Gimmerton for the doctor" 116
Importance: The nearest town to the isolated Heights and Grange.
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