The motif of doubles, windows and weather throughout the novel and their significance.



doors, windows, and doubles.



in his first descriptions of the house, Lockwood sees its unwelcoming architecture: "Happily, the architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, the corners defended with large, jutting stones". The window in the oak-paneled bed is a critical boundary in the novel, symbolizing a space of violation and violence. Even though Catherine's name is scratched on its surface, the window does not provide entry for her wailing ghost, thanks in large part to Lockwood's lack of sympathy. The bloodshed from Catherine's wrist "rubbed to and fro" on the pane suggests that there was a lot of violence involved in crossing thresholds. Later in the novel, Cathy escapes Heathcliff from the same window. When Catherine and Heathcliff go to spy on Edgar and Isabella, the drawing room window provides a view onto a different world, one that eventually welcomes Catherine but rejects Heathcliff. Thrown out of Thrushcross Grange, Heathcliff is left to look through the glass partition: "I resumed my station as a spy, because, if Catherine had wished to return, I intended shattering their great glass panes to a million fragments unless they let her out". The many symbolic meanings of windows extend even to Heathcliff's appearance, as Nelly describes his eyes as "a couple of black fiends, so deeply buried, who never open their windows boldly". Again, windows prevent rather than provide access



Doubles in Wuthering Heights were far from uncommon. There were Cathy and Catherine, Heathcliff and Catherine, Joseph and Nelly, and Heathcliff and Hareton. Cathy and Catherine were mother and daughter, so they were bound to be alike. Cathy pushes Linton Heathcliff after a fight about their parents. Though Cathy apologizes, she also blames him, just like her mother blamed Edgar. She does not want to leave Wuthering Heights carrying the blame for the scene: "Don't let me go home thinking I've done you harm!". Daughter, like mother, cannot control her temper and yet does not want to bear any of the responsibility. Heathcliff and Catherine were soulmates from the beginning, and have always had some kind of unseen bond, and even to their death they were together. Joseph and Nelly are alike in the fact that they’re the only two constant characters. Another important double is Heathcliff and Hareton. Both were placed into a servile position and deprived of an education by the ruthless master of the house. Just how vengeful Heathcliff is comes out with Hareton, because rather than feeling compassion that the young man has no sympathetic father figure, Heathcliff repeats the same treatment on Hareton that he received from Hareton's father.