{"content":{"sharePage":{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"36980838","dateCreated":"1301686508","smartDate":"Apr 1, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"danielx_184","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/danielx_184","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36980838"},"dateDigested":1531973837,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Heathcliff","description":"1) Heathcliff is often referred to be a gipsy which would then mean that he is probably fair skinned, with black hair. He is certainly tall and well built. He is usually said to look messy until he finally gains money and then it can be interpreted he might be well dressed.
\n2) Heathcliff definitely strikes like a mean, aggressive, cunning and perhaps depressed character. Aside from these we know he is rancorous and that might be linked to his honor. He wishes to get his \u201chonor\u201d back and thereby would willingly bring the \u201cdead back to life\u201d. He is also highly dependent on Catherine\u2019s love.
\n3) Heathcliff way of speaking is full of hatred most of the time, yet he can also be very romantic (up to an extreme perhaps) when he speaks to Catherine. He is very intelligent, he\u2019s level of cunningness would indeed require more than simple articulation when it comes to planning.
\n4) Heathcliff sole purpose in life is to gain Catherine\u2019s love and affection. The moment she marries Edward he starts doing everything in his power to become once again appealing to Cathy, for according to him she is only with Edward for his money. Heathcliff will pursue his goal all the way to Catherine\u2019s death.
\n5) Heathcliff gets what he wants, mainly through revenge and destroying the other characters. He aids Hindley get lost into alcohol. He also marries Isabella, an attempt to destroy Edgar and make Catherine jealous. All of the people he feels have done badly to him he will move on to destroy them.
\n6) When faced with adversity Heathcliff turns violent and is willing to harm other characters that stand in his way. Example of this is the way he treats Nelly, Isabella, and even Catherine.
\n7) Heatchliff is angry, hateful, and feels no compassion for anyone. He is certainly disturbed. He cannot come to accept reality and will thereby attack anybody and attempt to destroy them if these people attempt to get between him and his ideal life.
\n8) Characters have different ways of seeing Heathcliff. Catherine sees him as her soul mate. Her same kind, he is more her than she herself she claims several times. Hindley sees Heathcliff as of inferior nature. Isabella falls in love with him, but later her opinion changes to recall that he is devilish. And Nelly, although she loves Heathcliff, also speaks against him. Saying he was easily disturbed and deranged.
\n9) Heathcliff represents the lower classes, the oppressed and disregarded. The people that seek rebellion from the common order.
\n10) Heathcliff is from the lower class, he is a gipsy. Even when he grows rich his behavior still represents that of what is expected from the lower class.
\n11) People expect him to maintain his low class standard. To be a servant, because according to them he will never be able to be a member of the family.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36934012","dateCreated":"1301622577","smartDate":"Mar 31, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"ad.ri","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/ad.ri","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1283992059\/ad.ri-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36934012"},"dateDigested":1531973837,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Catherine Earnshaw","description":"1. Catherine, from Wuthering Heights, is a young, beautiful woman. Her looks charm those who meet her, Edgar and Heathcliff, and drive them to fall in love.
\n2. Catherine is a wild young girl at the beginning, not caring what others think about her. She has always been fiery, lashing out when confronted. She angers very quickly and may be aggressive if taunted.
\n3. She is an intelligent woman, using language appropriate for her intellectual level. She speaks directly, without trying to confuse the people she speaks to but to convey her message loud and clear.
\n4. She wants to live a peaceful life. Once she said that being with Heathcliff is constant turmoil of her thoughts and emotions. She also said once that marrying Heathcliff would be degrading, so when the noble Edgar asked her to marry her she promptly said yes.
\n5. When she first met the Lintons, she changed her barbaric ways for the civilized ways of high class, as she is supposed to be. However, some of her traits, like her quick temper, are smothered by this new way of life, though not completely gone. So she manipulates Edgar, making him believe she is the proper lady she\u00b4s supposed to be and hides her temper from him.
\n6. When Heathcliff leaves, we see that she truly loves him and she has a mental breakdown. Yet she continues with her life with Edgar peacefully for some years until Heathcliff comes back. When her both loves start bickering she lashes out to both of them, but then becomes sick again and breaks down for good.
\n7. Catherine seems confused most of the time about who she should stay with, though she only expresses this doubt early in the book and in Nelly\u00b4s confidence. She has Edgar, the loving gentleman that will give her peace, on one side and Heathcliff, the one she truly loves passionately but who causes her torment, on the other side.
\n8. Nelly, the narrator of Catherine\u00b4s story, describes everything we know. However, she does say that after Catherine comes back from the Linton\u00b4s house after the dog accident, she comes back differently, and Nelly doesn\u2019t particularly like her anymore. She had been wild and free before and now she is annoying, getting pretty and acting unlike herself in front of her new friends. She thinks herself superior to Nelly when they had been childhood friends before.
\n9. Catherine probably represents those girls who had to change and hide their true selves to be respectable ladies during the 1840s.
\n10. Catherine lives pretty isolated from civilization, so class isn\u2019t as serious and important to her as to people living in the city. However, her father is the wealthy owner of Wuthering Heights, so she is from the high class.
\n11. Though not many people were watching what she did, Catherine is expected to choose the well-respected gentleman over the savage, uneducated man. When she stays with the Lintons, they taught her the ways of a lady and they expected her to continue being a lady, as she did, and that\u00b4s probably why Edgar asked her to marry him, even after witnessing her wrath.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36926898","dateCreated":"1301616352","smartDate":"Mar 31, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"MaFe1595","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/MaFe1595","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36926898"},"dateDigested":1531973837,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Daisy Miller","description":" Daisy Miller
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\n1) Daisy Miller is a very pretty young girl, with beautiful, honest and fresh eyes. Blonde curls fall down her shoulders and her face didn\u2019t really reflected anything about herself, but it is still delicate. Her hands were decorated with a lot of rings and her hair is filled with pale-colored ribbons. She is constantly smiling with her countrywoman\u2019s features. There is no hat covering her head, but a parasol that is balanced in her hand.
\n2) At the very beginning, Daisy seemed as a very shy and reserved girl, but then, as soon as she starts talking, she is very confident in herself. She doesn\u2019t look away from Winterbourne and is not in the least intimidated or hesitant. She talks a lot and as the story goes on, she opens up more and we see that she is very flirty. She is also shallow and uneducated or ignorant. She doesn\u2019t know much about the Europe and she doesn\u2019t show much interest in learning history, but instead she is eager to meet the European socialites. She doesn\u2019t know how to act in public because she is always going out without a female chaperone, and she goes out with men at night to walk around, and at the time, that wasn\u2019t proper behavior. Towards the end she transitions from an innocent sweet girl to a flirtatious tart that plays around with Winterbourne\u2019s feelings.
\n3) Miss Miller talks a lot and she doesn\u2019t seem very educated. Her language and topics are not rich in knowledge but more on the society and she talks about very shallow topics as her dresses and how much she likes society and doesn\u2019t come out as a very smart person.
\n4) Daisy wants to go out with men and go to parties and meet the high society. She doesn\u2019t have other ambitions like finding a guy she can marry or history.
\n5) She gets what she wants by flirting and talking her brain out. She talks to anyone who comes near her.
\n6) Both Winterbourne and Mrs. Walker confront daisy. She responds by just smiling and remaining calm and just being herself. She doesn\u2019t listen to them and does as she pleases.
\n7) She is very shallow and she is aware that she is going against what people expect of her and she goes against the rules on purpose. She acts like she is na\u00efve and innocent, but the truth is that she is aware of what she is doing but pretends like she doesn\u2019t that proves she is not a good girl, as we thought she was.
\n8) She bedazzles Winterbourne. He analyzes her and he thinks she is very pretty and he thinks that she is sweet and ignorant and very flirtatious like the typical American girl. He recognizes she is stubborn towards the end and she plays with his feelings. Mrs. Walker thinks that she is wild, with no structure and she behaves in a completely opposite way to the way girls should behave in her time.
\n9) She represents everything a girl wasn\u2019t supposed to be or act. She represents society\u2019s taboos.
\n10) She is from the higher class, but probably she is a nouveau riche. Her family has money, but she is uneducated and ignorant and wild.
\n11) People expect her to have a chaperone at her side, to talk when she\u2019s asked to talk, to behave and talk and dress in a certain manner and to be reserved, as woman should have been in this time period. Instead she chose to be the center of attention and she achieved this by doing all that she wasn\u2019t supposed to.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36861046","dateCreated":"1301545231","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Ingrid89","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Ingrid89","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1228179242\/Ingrid89-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36861046"},"dateDigested":1531973837,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Blanche","description":"Blanche:
\n1. Blanche is a mid thirty year old woman born from a rich family. She wears rented and gifted \u2018fancy\u2019 clothes, as to apparent wealth.
\n2. Blanche is both arrogant and aggressive. She stands up for what she believes is right in front of Mitch and Stanley. She is arrogant because of all the lies she tells about herself and the superiority she has to all around her, especially in comparison to the Pollack. Blanche grows and is dependent on the way others perceive of her. She is seen as almost perfect and flawless, thus when the truth comes out, she is internally and externally crumbled and hence devastated and destroyed.
\n3. Blanche\u2019s main words are \u201cPollack\u201d describing and diminishing Stanley. Her language, other than that is somewhat cult, as she pretends to be an English teacher.
\n4. Blanche\u2019s main purpose is to marry a man that will maintain her and \u2018love\u2019 her for the rest of her life. She wants to settle, as her sister Stella has. Blanche is lead to lying and manipulating others in order for her to achieve what she wants. She, lying about her entire life shows her desperation towards her purpose\/goal.
\n5. Blanche makes herself seem as the victim in order to achieve all that she wants. She is not to be blamed to be staying at Stanley\u2019s house, as she just wants to be close to her sister. She manipulates her sister into letting her stay longer, as she is happy and wants to be close to Stella. She complains all day about Stanley and the way he treats Stella, though.
\n6. When Blanche is threatened or has to face with a situation that is not of her please, she tries to avoid it and lie about, later to be taking a bath to cleanse and purify all the angriness and bad feelings.
\n7. Blanche is emotionally unstable. She not only lost her husband who turned out to be homosexual, but she is also a drunk and was fired from her job as a teacher. Blanche is confused and frustrated, as she thinks she is becoming too old to find her \u2018other half\u2019, and is desperate to find him.
\n8. Stella supports and defends her sister, as she thinks Blanche is \u2018perfect\u2019 and came to her house to be near her sister. Stanley repeatedly states that Blanche has come for bad reasons and is here not because she wants to but because she is forced to. Stanley doesn\u2019t think Blanche is stable to real in any matter.
\n9. Blanche represents the idealist imagination that one has: the unimaginable desire. She desires one thing very badly, and that is to find a man. But, by being desperate and searching the wrong way by lying and manipulating, it states that one will not be successful unless being real. Blanche is like the guidelines of all people, expressing what is not to be done in order to succeed: and such is to manipulate and lie.
\n10. Blanche is broke. She has nowhere to go and hence is forced to stay at her sister\u2019s. Blanche lost Belle Reve, the only land left to her from her family. Now, she fits in the lower class, if not lower.
\n11. In the novel, Blanche is supposed to be the perfect lady, coming from a rich family, cult, and successful. Blanche, being the sister of Stella and trying to get her away from her husband who mistreats her, actually portrays Blanche as the mediator and wise person, yet all would expect her to have a right sense of her own life as well.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[{"id":"36932784","body":"oh, and to add to #1: Blanche's beauty is decaying as years come over her. She wears makeup and hides from the light in order to hide her 'true self' and appear her desired beauty.","dateCreated":"1301621242","smartDate":"Mar 31, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"Ingrid89","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/Ingrid89","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1228179242\/Ingrid89-lg.jpg"}}],"more":0}]},{"id":"36853442","dateCreated":"1301534762","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"caro3arias","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/caro3arias","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36853442"},"dateDigested":1531973837,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Blanche","description":"1. Blanche DeBois is a 30-year-old woman who was once very beautiful and sought after. Her beauty, unfortunately, is fading and for this reason, she despises being seen in full light. She is white skinned, and wears lots of colorful dresses. She also own pieces of fake fur and costume jewelry, which she throws on when she is drunk. Blanche wears make up and takes good care of her hair.
\n2. Blanche is psychologically unstable. She often hears sounds in her head. Blanche does not live in reality and her fantasies often spill over into her real life. She is obsessed with appearances: physical and social. She has strong sexual desires and flirty with almost all men. She lies often. Since
\n3. Blanche is a former English teacher, her language is proper. She often uses big words to show off her knowledge. She also likes to speak French once in a while.
\n4. Blanche desperately want to find a man who will take care of her so she can settle down. She also wants her sister to leave Stanley because he is abusing her.
\n5. Blanche flirts with every man she can find, trying to entice him. She then tries to give off a pious and old-fashioned reputation so they think she is \u201crespectful\u201d. In order to get Stella to leave Stanley, she tries to show her what a great life they would have without him. She writes Shep Huntliegh, trying to convince him to let them come down to Texas.
\n6. Blanche psychologically breaks down when faced with huge problems. When she realizes that she is being kicked out of the house and Mitch knows her past, she starts lying and hears sounds and sees shadows.
\n7. Blanche\u2019s emotional state is ever changing. She is sometimes extremely cheerful, then weepy, then hysterical. She worries a lot, about what other people think of her and about her past and future.
\n8. Stella defends her sister\u2019s behavior because they are family. She says that Stella was one of the sweetest people on Earth when she was young. Stanley thinks Blanche is a liar, a thief, and a slut. He can\u2019t stand her bathing, her singing, and her flirty, airy manner. He (correctly) assumes she is hiding something from her.
\n9. Blanche represents all the lost people of society, people that have nowhere to go, and no one to take care of them.
\n10. Blanche was born into a rich family but lost the family estate. She was forced to move into Stanley and Stella\u2019s humble apartment, which she finds disgraceful.
\n11. Blanche is expected to be a proper lady and to marry a man and have kids. She is expected to have a good social life, and to support her husband in any way she can. Blanche fails miserably at all of these tasks.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36846188","dateCreated":"1301528297","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"paulasev_th","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/paulasev_th","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1265121950\/paulasev_th-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36846188"},"dateDigested":1531973837,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Heathcliff","description":"
\n1. Heathcliff is often related to gypsies because of his dark skin. He is young, tall, and probably handsome. By working outdoors all day, he is always dirty and sun burnt.
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\n2. This character\u2019s two main characteristics are love and his desire for revenge. He loves Catherine more than anything in the world, as if they were one single being, which will die if been separated. When Catherine marries Edgar, he looks for revenge on everyone. He marries Isabella to have revenge on Catherine, becomes the owner of Wuthering Heights by buying it from ruined Hindley, and later on tries to control Catherine\u2019s daughter as a mock towards Edgar. In addition, and also as part of his revengeful character, Heathcliff is sometimes dark and cruel, towards people such as Isabella and Nelly, and deranged by his love towards Catherine and his pain when she dies.
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\n3. Heathcliff\u2019s background is not known, but it is clear he came from a poor setting, and therefore his manners are not those of a well-bred boy, such as Edgar. However, his language improves throughout the novel, especially after coming back from his three years absence.
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\n4. Heathcliff only wanted to be with Catherine, his one and only love. However, when Catherine marries Edgar, and eventually dies, his only desire is to have revenge from those who separated them and made his life miserable, such as Edgar or Hindley.
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\n5. He gets revenge on the other characters in the novel by destroying them. Hindley is lost to alcohol, and Heathcliff buys Wuthering Heights from him to enhance his ruin, which turns him mad. Heathcliff runs away with Isabella, destroying her relationship with Edgar, and finally forces Catherine\u2019s daughter to live with him and marry sick Linton.
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\n6. When faced with problems or opposition, Heathcliff reacts in a violent, aggressive way. He many times harms Catherine and Isabella.
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\n7. The love he feels towards Catherine drives him to become an evil, dark character. In the end, he becomes insane and desperate for her. When Mr. Lockwood sees Catherine\u2019s apparition in the window, he cries in the night for her to haunt him and come back to his arms.
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\n8. Catherine believes Heathcliff is not another person, but herself. She describes their love as \u201cthe eternal rocks beneath the trees,\u201d and how they cannot live without each other. Other characters have a different opinion about him. Hindley always treated him as inferior because of his dark skin and poor beginnings. Isabella and Edgar believe he is cruel and devilish, and Linton hates him for being so revengeful and apathetic.
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\n9. Heathcliff represents the lower and inferior class, and how they are not supposed to interfere with the higher class\u2019s life. In addition, he represents the desperation and passion of an impossible love.
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\n10. He is at the lower class, along with the servants of the Earnshaws, but is able to increase his wealth and become the owner of the property.
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\n11. People expect him to carry on with his poor life serving in the house as the horseman or the gardener, and never become one of the family, as Mr. Earnshaw treated him, but rather never be at the same level as Hindley, Catherine, or Edgar.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36814382","dateCreated":"1301501076","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"kelseygymnastics","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/kelseygymnastics","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222807559\/kelseygymnastics-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36814382"},"dateDigested":1531973837,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Isabella Linton","description":"1. Isabella has blonde hair, blue eyes, and light skin. She is delicate and well-bred and we follow her life from a young age to her death. At first, she is well put together, but she later gives up on dressing nicely and grooming herself.
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\n2. Miss Linton is presented as a young and foolish girl. She is rather shy and na\u00efve, which ultimately causes her marrying Heathcliff. She later becomes depressed and hopeless.
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\n3. Isabella is an upper-class young lady, so she speaks with some dignity and intelligence. She speaks rarely, but clearly and wittily.
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\n4. Isabella dearly wants someone to pay attention to her, wants someone to care about her. This is the reason she pursues Heathcliff and eventually runs away with him. However, after getting Heathcliff, all she wants is to get away.
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\n5. At first, Isabella simply whines that no one likes her, that no one lets her be with Heathcliff. She then takes action, flirting with Heathcliff to get attention.
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\n6. When faced with truly threatening circumstances, Isabella flees. This is illustrated by her married life with Heathcliff. She first becomes extremely introverted, then escapes. This is mirrored by when her family does not accept her relationship with Heathcliff: ultimately, she absconds.
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\n7. When Isabella is younger, she is carefree and happy (as are all children), albeit slightly frustrated at the lack of attention given to her. After marrying Heathcliff, however, she becomes angry at him and frustrated with life in general, for he abuses her and practically holds her hostage.
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\n8. Heathcliff believes Isabella is frightened to death of him and completely helpless. He also thinks that she is completely dependent upon him, and that she loves him still.
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\n9. Isabella represents the typical story of a girl from a more privileged family falling for a boy from a poorer background. Heathcliff entices her to marry him, but all that comes to her after this decision is unhappiness.
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\n10. Isabella was born into the upper class, but is dragged down by Heathcliff.
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\n11. Her family and society in general expected her to be respectable, to marry someone of a similar social standing. She did not live up to these expectations. Instead, she married Heathcliff. Then, Heathcliff expects her to be an obedient and complacent wife. Once again, she does not live up to these expectations.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36807698","dateCreated":"1301495841","smartDate":"Mar 30, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"teagvest","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/teagvest","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/i\/user_none_lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36807698"},"dateDigested":1531973837,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Heathcliff Character Analysis","description":"Heathcliff
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\n1. Heathcliff is broad and muscular; has long, dark hair; unkempt; tall; wears raggy clothes; and is in his late 20s or early 30s.
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\n2. He is basically mean and aggressive; he lies and is angry in general; he doesn\u2019t value common morals like honor, integrity, or kindness; he is driven by the pursuit of power and revenge; he fears his own possible weakness and the possibility that maybe Catherine doesn\u2019t really love him.
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\n3. He is unintelligent and uneducated; his language is therefore simplistic, which he uses to hurt and manipulate other characters; he is very blunt and clear.
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\n4. Heathcliff wants to get revenge on Edgar for marrying Catherine and on Catherine\u2019s brother for his miserable childhood. He\u2019s planned to get revenge, but he\u2019s left the major details to convenient impulsive decisions in the moment.
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\n5. To get what he wants, Heathcliff \u201cattacks\u201d those on his hit list, but he also manipulates people on the side to achieve his goals.
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\n6. He gets angry and frustrated when he can't get what he wants; he's vengeful.
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\n7. Heathcliff goes through many emotions, but most of all he is incredibly passionate. He is completely driven by whatever emotion he\u2019s feeling at the time. He can be frustrated, angry, and hateful.
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\n8. People say Heathcliff is dumb, illiterate, a beast, and Catherine said it would \u201cdegrade\u201d her to marry him. People don\u2019t see anything good about him.
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\n9. Heathcliff represents the bottom of the social system and the violent side of passionate emotion.
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\n10. Heathcliff is at the very bottom of the classes; he\u2019s a stable hand and a foundling.
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\n11. He is expected to work for the rest of his life in the stables and serve.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36790722","dateCreated":"1301463114","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"maaayyyaaa","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/maaayyyaaa","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1222817730\/maaayyyaaa-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36790722"},"dateDigested":1531973838,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Water-Sprinkled Blood ","description":"The New Dress: Mabel Waring
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\n1. Mabel is a 40-year-old woman, a wife, and a mother of two. She wears a long, pale yellow silk dress with high sleeves and a tight waist. Consumed with feelings of inadequacy, she slouches and skulks.
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\n2. Quite clearly, Mabel lacks self-confidence. She experiences drastic mood swings and has unpredictable emotions. Alone with her seamstress, she is engulfed with feelings of beauty and gratitude and love. But thrust into a social environment, her confidence is instantly crushed. Her thoughts ramble on and on and succeed only in drowning her in an ocean of insecurities.
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\n3. Mabel\u2019s language is simple and straightforward. At the party, all her words are uttered either to pity herself or to attract the attention of others. She uses words to manipulate guests into complementing her, telling her that no, her dress is not that horrid at all, and that no, she is not a dingy old decrepit fly.
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\n4. Mabel\u2019s root desire is to be accepted and loved. On a more material level, she constantly seeks out complements and attention from others.
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\n5. To get what she wants, Mabel plays the \u201cI\u2019m so [insert negative adjective]...\u201d \u201cNo You\u2019re Not\u201d game. She deliberately insults herself so others feel obliged to refute the insults, thus complementing her in an indirect way. She paints herself as the innocent victim and demands attention from others.
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\n6. When faced with problems, Mabel shrivels up and withdraws into a pool of self pity. She does not lift up her face and overcome her difficulties, but rather victimizes herself and blows the problem out of proportion. Suddenly everything is so much worse. Suddenly everything is an unfortunate consequence of her horrible childhood, her self-created inadequacy, and her plethora of repulsive traits.
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\n7. Mabel is spiteful, self-deprecating, vacillating, and erratic. Her self-confidence fluctuates wildly from one moment to the next. She assigns motives to others and holds an \u201ceveryone is out to get me\u201d attitude towards all the guests at the party.
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\n8. All we know about other characters is told to us through Mabel. Thus, we can infer that Mabel, in her precarious mental state, is highly biased. She says that everyone at the party is thinking how horrid she looked in her new dress, but we cannot take this for fact.
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\n9. Mabel represents weakness, cowardice, and inadequacy, while her dress represents everything she strives to be. She stands in her own way to success; she is her own obstacle on the road to happiness.
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\n10. Mabel is of lower class. The source of the entire conflict is her inability to buy a fashionable dress for want of money. Instead, she decides to have her seamstress sew her a new dress based on one in an old Paris fashion book. Consequently, this brings back long-oppressed feelings of inferiority from her childhood. Mabel was raised in a family of ten. While they were not totally poverty stricken, they \u201cnever had money enough\u201d and were \u201calways skimping and paring.\u201d
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\n11. Within her class, Mabel is expected to be a lady. This entails marrying a respectable man, raising children, and tending the household. She is also expected to attend social gatherings and be a good guest. Rather, at the Dalloways\u2019 party, she quickly becomes disgusted with the other guests and the hostess and leaves almost immediately (how rude!).","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]},{"id":"36788692","dateCreated":"1301459050","smartDate":"Mar 29, 2011","userCreated":{"username":"tammy_sev","url":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/view\/tammy_sev","imageUrl":"https:\/\/www.wikispaces.com\/user\/pic\/1285868666\/tammy_sev-lg.jpg"},"monitored":false,"locked":false,"links":{"self":"https:\/\/davidgarethw-books-b.wikispaces.com\/share\/view\/36788692"},"dateDigested":1531973838,"startDate":null,"sharedType":"discussion","title":"Blanche DuBois","description":"1) Blanche DuBois is a woman who appears in the play \u201cA streetcar named desire\u201d. She is in her 30\u2019s I will say, and in a way a decaying beauty. Most of her wardrobe includes showy but tacky clothes.
\n2) She shows to be delicate and sensitive, portraying a lady from an upper class. Unlike Stella and Stanley she is refined and more knowledgeable. She is weak when it comes to relationships; she is very dependable on men. The play tells us in a way that for her life to continue she needs a man in her life. In a way it also tells us that she must be away from light, light would reveal her true self and she most stay away from it, so she is just like a moth in that sense.
\n3) Blanche speaks in an intelligent matter, she knows a lot of literature being an English teacher and could be considered more civilized than others in the story. Although Blanche would not intentionally like to hurt someone she does say some things to mock Stella\u2019s way of life, her household, and her husband. She has a weak tone, not strong in what she says since she is not secure at all. Her insecurity makes her give in into what others say.
\n4) Throughout the play we can see that Blanche needs a man in her life, this is what she needs to survive. Without this relationship her beauty will fade away and she will be left alone, if she does stay alone she will have to go to extreme measures. Blanche sees only the magic of everything she would not like to live in reality; the only thing that can please her is her fantasy.
\n5) Blanche tries to get a man, a savior, once she sees Mitch. She had had rough times in her past but when she sees Mitch, even though he is not her type, he could be the one that takes her away from her future misery. To get Mitch she tries to show him the lady that she can be, and how proper and educated. However, just when she was about to get what she wanted Stanley ruined it for her giving Mitch information about her past. At the end Blanche didn\u2019t get what she wanted and we see how at the end she slowly decays but finds some hope in her doctor.
\n6) When Blanche is faced with problems she fears from herself and hides in her insecurity. However when the problem is really big when people insist for her to show her true self she bursts out, revealing everything about her. In small problems she seems to face them calmly, and it only adds to her insecurity, but in big ones she can\u2019t keep her tranquility and reveals her true self. We can say that she mainly withdraws from problems changing the topic or simply ignoring it and keep fantasizing.
\n7) Blanche is insecure, melancholic, and unpleased with herself. All these are because of her past. Blanche had been married to a young boy but he killed himself and since then on she tried to get other men to fill her needs, he lost all her property and now that she was getting old her beauty was leaving her. All of a sudden Blanche saw that the more time she let pass the harder it would be for her to get a man in her life, this caused her insecurity and the guilt she felt for the death. She is melancholic and unpleased for her death too, and for the thing she lost.
\n8) Stella is Blanche\u2019s sister, although she hears bad stuff about her she doesn\u2019t believe it, she believes in her sisters\u2019 innocence and doesn\u2019t blame her cause she knows what she has been through. Stanley, however considers Blanche to be a liar, and doesn\u2019t believe in her innocence. Mitch is different from the others, and he sees Blanche as a nice lady, but this later changes when he hears the truth.
\n9) Blanche represents an antihero. Her attributed are not ones that can be admired. She isn\u2019t independent and not very courageous at times. She hides from her problems and doesn\u2019t do anything \u201cgood\u201d towards other. Blanche is not courageous at all and at the end instead of showing us how she moves on, she gives up and shows us just how much more dependable to other people she is.
\n10) Blanche is in a state in life were she has lost everything and all her richness has left her. She is dependable to what her sister gives her now, and her hospitality, and the hope that things will get better for her.
\n11) Some characters expect Blanche to just give up, stop tying and for her life to get ruined. Other characters know about her weakness but try to help her, and not let her down.","replyPages":[{"page":0,"digests":[],"more":0}]}],"more":true},"comments":[]},"http":{"code":200,"status":"OK"},"redirectUrl":null,"javascript":null,"notices":{"warning":[],"error":[],"info":[],"success":[]}}