Catherine I Flashcards
The structure of the book seen through Catherine’s names
Catherine Earnshaw, here and there varied to Catherine Heathcliff, and then again to Catherine Linton
Lockwood touches the ghost of Cathy’s hand
my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand
The words of Cathy’s ghost (2)
1) ‘Let me in - let me in!’
2) ‘twenty years, I’ve been a waif for twenty years!’
Reference to the wind in Chapter 3 (1)
wind whirled wildly through
Nelly’s summary of Cathy as a child
too mischievous and wayward for a favourite
Cathy’s plan to break both Heathcliff and Edgar’s hearts (1)
‘I’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own’
Cathy’s seizure (1)
her hair flying over her shoulders, her eyes flashing, the muscles of her neck and arms standing out preternaturally
In Chapter 12, Cathy speaks of hauntings (1)
‘I’ve been tormented! I’ve been haunted, Nelly!’
Cathy longs for her childhood (1)
‘I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free…’
Cathy longs to be on the moors and wants the window open (Chapter 12) (1)
‘I’m sure I should be myself again were I once among the heather on those hills… Open the window again wide, fasten it open!’
Catherine talks to Heathcliff as she is delirious (1)
‘they may bury me twelve feet deep, and throw the church down over me; but I won’t rest till you are with me… I never will!’
Cathy predicts her own death (1)
‘Next spring you’ll long again to have me under this roof’
The wind dies down as Cathy dies (1)
‘the scarcely perceptible wind’
Cathy thinks she is better than everyone else (1)
‘I shall be incomparably beyond and above you all!’
Cathy blames Heathcliff for killing her (1)
‘You have killed me - and thriven on it, I think’
Cathy smiles while she is dead (1)
her lips wearing the expression of a smile
Cathy’s grave (1)
It was dug on a green slope, in a corner of the kirkyard, where the wall is so low that heath and bilberry plants have climbed over it from the moor
Cathy (represented through the wind) pervades Wuthering Heights (1)
‘there was no sound but the moaning wind, which shook the windows every now and then’
Cathy gives her reasons for wanting to marry Edgar (1)
‘And he will be rich, and I shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood’
Cathy is preoccupied with a longing for spiritual freedom, beyond the mortal state (1)
‘The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there’
Cathy talks about the differences between herself and Edgar through elemental forces (1)
‘as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire’
