ENGL 2201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Hareton Earnshaw, Video Lesson, Melodrama
16 Sep 2016
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Violence he uses to force cathy and nelly to stay at wh and cathy to marry linton. Heathcliff has control over lawyers- edgar can"t write will to leave tg and money to cathy, so it passes to linton when he dies, and then when. Taken full legal possession of wh and tg. Strange force in novel to transform to comic structure - not slapstick. Comic structure- like shakespeare plays, tones dominate opening and middle act, end in happy resolution. Resolution remains troubling, but classified as comedy- usually marriage at end. We find way from melodrama at beginning and middle to comic resolution- some new state of being and social order will be emerging from what seemed tragic. Catherine, zillah, heathcliff, linton, hareton living at wh. Hareton has become a violent brute incapable of recognizing potential- but catch glimpses of moments that he still has potential. Transformative power of wh over family life.
