But in all seriousness, it seems everyone is falling apart. Catherine I has fallen ill. However, I am getting a little ahead of myself.
In our last segment, Heathcliff made his triumphant return. In this next bit, he comes back repeatedly and sets Catherine I's husband Edgar over the edge. Insert angry verbal and I think semi-physical fighting here, Heathcliff leaves, and Catherine I goes on a hunger strike.
She goes insane (as I think anyone could) after three days in the same room without food or water. She shut herself off, having shortly before retorted to her husband that she could choose neither Heathcliff nor her own husband over the other. Edgar wanted reassurance at the time that his wife still loved him, and proclaimed that he couldn't stand her being friends with Heathcliff anymore. (Soap opera, right?)
Anyway, Catherine I goes insane in this bit of a hunger strike, shutting herself from everyone, including the trusty servant that is Mrs. Dean, who is the only one let in after three days.
Insert random bouts of delirium, and ranting about death here. It seems that this family is, forgive my pun, plagued with death and illness issues. The only doctor in the whole town comes (he's come before on occasions, but again I assumed him somewhat a minor character).
Somewhere in all of this madness, Heathcliff appears under the cover of night, and Isabella runs off with him to get married within a few months of this craziness.
A Note arrives to Mrs. Dean from Isabella asking for her help. I'll quote something that basically sums up how she was received when she moved to Wuthering Heights:
"... Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil? ..."Based purely on Isabella's description (which, past being a tad exaggerated I feel I can trust) it seems that the Heights has gone extremely downhill.
I regret having looked at the genealogical tree in the front whilst reading the next part. It appears as Catherine I is pregnant with her and Edgar's first child. I question whether this insanity block Catherine I experienced overlapped with this pregnancy.
It seems that all of these people are on the edge of their self-created doom. How delightful.
