Wuthering Heights

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• Mr. Lockwood - Young Adult (20-35), Adult (36-50), Senior (>50), Male

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Mr Lockwood's dream

Summary

Mr Lockwood is one of the narrators of this story which takes place in 1801 as he arrives at Thrushcross, a mansion on the Yorkshire Moors, in the North of England. He rents the mansion from Heathcliff, a rich man who lives in the neighboring Wuthering Heights. As he arrives he decides to visit Heathcliff but, because of the bad weather, is forced to stay overnight. Alone in his room and about to go to sleep, he notices a manuscript by a certain Catherine Earnshaw. As he reads it, he learns that she used to be Heathcliff's childhood friend. As Lockwood reads the diary, he gets tired and falls asleep, but before he does, he glances at a "red ornamented title "Seventy Times Seven, and the First of the Seventy-First", a speech by Reverend Jabez Branderham. In this monologue Lockwood narrates to the reader a dream (or nightmare) that he had (inspired by that title) after falling asleep. In the dream he gets to meet Reverend Branderham, and, exposed as a sinner during one of his speeches, Lockwood is scolded by him and attacked by his congregation...

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