Chapter 22- 26 Flashcards
Symbolism through setting at beginning of chapter 22.
- “birds feed and entice their young ones to fly.”
- Symbol of Cathy wanting to break free.
- “stunted oaks.” Symbol of Catherine being unable to strive in society because she is a woman.
Significance of there being a “wall” with a “door” that Cathy jumps across into WH grounds.
ch.21
- “door” within “wall”: double barrier. Edgar completely trapping Cathy.
- “door” CAN be opened, rather than just wall, foreshadows Cathy breaking down barrier between TG and WH?
- Symbol of instabaility of social hierarchies: can break through them as Cathy does.
Why is Cathy climbing over the “WALL” significant and what she does?
ch.22
- Once she’s over, she can’t escape Heathcliff.
- Her child-like adventure/ innocence, similar to her mother.
- Reaching for fruit: reminiscent of Tree of Knoweldge/ interracting with evil for the first time. ie. with Heathcliff.
How does Bronte convey how Cathy loves?
ch.22
- Cathy says “I love you better than anyone living” to Linton.
- “I should love no one better than Papa.”
- Child innonce - not exposed to Romantic love yet.
How does Linton use illness as a method of control?
- Linton says to Cathy: “leave me and I shall be killed, my life is in your hands.”
- Hyperbolic reliance.
- Cathy manipulated into marrying Linton.
- Illness used as method of control with Catherine and Edgar as well.
- Illness SHOULD be form of social discipline, where weak submit to those in power, Linton/ Catherine paradoxially use it to elevate THEIR power –> FACCAULT.
What does Cathy say she would do to Linton if “he were mine?”
ch.23
- “I’d make such a pet of him.”
How does Nelly describe Cathy at the end of ch.23?
- “like an angel.”
- Contrasts her mother’s wicked soul.
- Future younger generations correcting mistakes in behaviour of the older generation.
Why does Cathy say about the Grange to Nelly when confronting her?
ch.23
- “The Grange is not a prison, you are not my jailer.”
- Ironic, because it is a “prison” to keep Cathy in check.
Description of Cathy and Linton as BINARY OPPOSITES.
- “He wanted to lie in an ectasy of peace, I wanted… to sparkle in a glorius jubilee.”
- Not in tune.
- Similar to how Edgar’s coolness made Catherine’s blood boil.
Give quote that proves that behaviour of parents can influence behaviour of children.
- Linton described to have “self- absorbed morosoness”/ Heathcliff has “habitual morosoness.”
Signifiance of the physical wall/ barrier between TG’s land and WH’s land that Cathy climbs.
- Gothic threshhold.
- Typical feature of Gothic: doors/ enclosures.
- The Threshold creates tension between familiar/ unfamiliar.
- Heathcliff = sense of uncanny, intimately known by Catherine but also in a whole other world to her!
Pathetic fallacy used.
- “summer drew to an end.”
- Beginning of chapter, establishing that all hope has gone / evil beginning to emerge.
