2. " About twelve o'clock, that night, was born the Catherine you saw at Wuthering Heights, a puny seven months child; and two hours after the mother died,~ The death of Catherine..."(chapter 16, page138)
3.
"Fortunately, its mother died before the time arrived, some thirteen years
after the decease of Catherine, when Linton was twelve, or a little more.
~ The death of Isabella." (chapter17, page154)
Analysis:
Mrs. Bronte died in her early years. Maybe this fact had some
influence on Emily's creating the mothers in Wthering Heights.
We can find out that the mothers in Wuthering
Heights all died when they were still young. (See the examples above.)
Mrs. Bronte was weak and often sick. Moreover she bore a child every
year, so she died in 1821, leaving 6 weak and ill children.
We also can find out that all the mothers in Wuthering Heights died after
they had given birth of their children.
It is unreasonable to say that they died because of bearing children, but
they died after having given birth to the second generation is indeed the
same with the situation of Mrs. Bronte.
There is also something interesting that the description of their deaths
is shorter and shorter. The dwcription
of Catherine's death is shorter than Frances, and Isabellas is shorter
than Catherine’s.
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