Chapter 29
Heathcliff digs up Catherine's grave: 'I got the sexton... to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it.' One of literature's most disturbing scenes of obsession.
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From Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Passages that have provoked debate over Heathcliff's race, his cruelty, the gothic-erotic, and the novel's moral framework.
Chapter 17
Heathcliff hangs Isabella's dog and physically abuses her; debates about whether the novel romanticizes or critiques his violence.
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Heathcliff's racial ambiguity—'dark-skinned gypsy,' possibly Lascar or African—has been central to postcolonial readings.
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