Cathy and Heathciff's Relationship

Question 1

Cathy and Heathcliff as youths being above religion (1)

Answer 1

no parson in the world ever pictured Heaven as beautifully as they did

Question 2

Young Heathcliff places Cathy above everybody (1)

Answer 2

‘she is so immeasurably superior to them - to everybody on Earth’

Question 3

Young Heathcliff and Cathy endure everything for each other (1)

Answer 3

The curate might set as many chapters as he liked for Catherine to get my heart, and Joseph might thrash Heathcliff until his arms ached; they forgot everything the minute they were together

Question 4

Cathy talks to Nelly about how she cannot marry Heathcliff (1)

Answer 4

‘It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now’

Question 5

Cathy talks about the fact she is Heathcliff (2)

Answer 5

1) ‘He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or a frost from fire’
2) ‘Nelly, I am Heathcliff’

Question 6

Heathcliff comes back to Cathy and talks of his existence without her (1)

Answer 6

‘I’ve fought through a bitter life since I last heard your voice, and you must forgive me, for I struggled only for you!’

Question 7

Heathcliff allows Cathy to be with Edgar because she loves him (1)

Answer 7

‘I never would have banished him from her society as long as she desired his. The moment her regard ceased, I would have torn his heart out, and drunk his blood!’

Question 8

Heathcliff knows that Cathy cares much more about him than about Edgar (1)

Answer 8

‘You know as well as I do, that for every thought she spends on him, she spends a thousand on me!’

Question 9

Heathcliff predicts his existence in the second novel of the book if he loses Cathy (1)

Answer 9

‘Two words would comprehend my future- death and hell- existence, after losing her, would be hell’

Question 10

Heathcliff and Cathy’s embrace (2)

Answer 10

1) he neither spoke nor loosed his hold for five minutes

2) they were locked in an embrace from which I though my mistress would never be released alive

Question 11

Heathcliff and Cathy’s argument (2)

Answer 11

1) ‘Is it not sufficient for your infernal selfishness, that while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?’
2) ‘Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will, did it. I have not broken your heart - you have broken; and in breaking it, you have broken mine’

Question 12

Cathy’s last wish (1)

Answer 12

‘I only wish for us never to be parted’

Question 13

Heathcliff cannot live without Cathy, she is his soul (1)

Answer 13

‘Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?’

Question 14

Heathcliff shocks Nelly with his comments about dead Cathy being in hell (1)

Answer 14

‘May she wake in torment!’

Question 15

Heathcliff wishes for Cathy to haunt him (2)

Answer 15

1) ‘Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest, as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then!’
2) ‘Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh god, it is unutterable. I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!’

Question 16

Heathcliff talks of how Cathy has haunted him for the past 18 years (1)

Answer 16

1) ‘She has disturbed me, night and day, through eighteen years - incessantly - remorselessly!’

Question 17

Heathcliff sees Catherine everywhere he looks (2)

Answer 17

1) ‘What does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but that her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object, by day I am surrounded by her image!’
2) ‘The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist. and that I have lost her’