I have to say that while reading Wuthering Heights I found that it was easy to get lost. Switching from the Nelly's story to the present, made me feel like I was wondering around the Moors myself. More like lost within them anyway. By the time I got done reading I was glad it was over, but at the same timed I wanted to start over and read it again just to understand more about it.
Looking at the revenge plot that Heathcliff had put together boggled my mind. I mean I understand that he was treated like nothing as a child and then some how made tons of money, but how did he put such an extensive plot together? I wouldn't be able to do it. I would have started then got confused by my own revenge scheme and gave up. Of course Heathcliff somehow plotted what he would do, acted on his plot as soon as he returned, but then succeeds. The only fall back was he didn't cover his back and send Hareton away. If he had done that his plan would have been complete. I guess, in the end, Heathcliff got his last wish and was burried next to Catherine. In fact, it seems Heathcliff got his wish to be with Catherine. Even if they are both ghosts running around the moor, Wuthering Heights, and the churchyard.
I've came up with a reason to why everyone is on the verge of insanity. I'm pretty sure that most of the characters are related in some form or fashion, well except Heathcliff. Looking at their family tree would be like looking at a braided rope. Ends meeting up with other ends, those ends meeting up farther down on other ends (I'm pretty sure there would be a knot somewhere in there.). So, Catherine and Edgar, Heathcliff and Isabella, Hindly and Frances. Catherine and Edgar have little Catherine. Heathcliff and Isabella have Linton. Hindley and Frances have Hareton. Linton marries little Catherine, then later little Catherine marries Hareton. Incest!?! I think so. Why should everyone not be crazy when they marry their cousins, and seem happy about it.
I have to confess Blake there were times in my reading where I felt a little "lost in the moors," as you put it. I think the amazing thing about Heathcliff's revenge is it shows just how far people can go in order to obtain that sense of self-worth and self-value we all strive for daily. His evil depravity is just a reflection of that inner evil we all carry to an extent and wait to use if and when we feel it necessary.
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