#parallel structures in wuthering heights
“Heathcliff trespasses everywhere: he is the double of the dead Earnshaw son for whom he is named, the double of Nelly who is both inside and outside the family, the double of Edgar in his love for Catherine, the double of Hindley as a tyrannical master, the double of Hareton as an excluded savage, the double of Isabella in her volatile rebelliousness, the double of his son, his second, and the double of the father who brings home an unaccountable booty from elsewhere.
And, he is also the double of his most obvious opposite, Lockwood, in a way that finally punctuates the indifference of antagonists, the irrelevance of counting, the generality of antagonism. For just as the condition of possibility of the narrative is the intrusion of the foreigner Lockwood, the condition of possibility of the story is the incorporation of the exotic Heathcliff.”
(The Order of Forms, Anna Kornbluh)
