Edgar Flashcards
Nelly compares Heathcliff and Edgar in terms of natural imagery, showing her instant preference for the Lintons (1)
The contrast resembled what you see when you exchange a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful, fertile valley
Catherine tells Nelly about her love for Edgar, it is very conventional (1)
‘I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head…’
Edgar makes a comment about tea, showing how shallow he is in comparison with Heathcliff (1)
‘Catherine, unless we are to have cold tea, please to come to the table’
Heathcliff makes a comment about Edgar using animal imagery (1)
‘Cathy, this lamb of yours threatens like a bull!’
Cathy shows how cold Edgar is (1)
‘Your cold blood cannot be worked into a fever: your veins are full of ice-water; but mine are boiling, and the sight of such chillness makes them dance’
Edgar demands Cathy to choose between him and Heathcliff (1)
‘Will you give up Heathcliff hereafter, or will you give up me?’
Edgar orders the window shut (1)
‘Shut the window, Nelly!’
Edgar threatens to fire Nelly (1)
‘The next time you bring a tale to me, you shall quit my service, Ellen Dean’
Edgar disowns Isabella (1)
‘Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I have disowned her, but because she has disowned me’
Edgar after Cathy’s death, a contrast to Heathcliff (1)
He was too good to be thoroughly unhappy long. He didn’t pray for Catherine’s soul to haunt him
Edgar is powerless, he will be unable to get Linton (1)
‘if I can get him’; and there were no hopes of that’
Edgar yearns to be dead and be with Cathy (1)
‘lying…on the green mound of her mother’s grave, and wishing, yearning for the time when I might lie beneath it;
Edgar shows the contrast between him and Heathcliff by showing how he wouldn’t mind if only Cathy would be happy at WH (1)
‘I’d not care that Heathcliff gained his ends, and triumphed in robbing me of my last blessing’
Edgar refers to Linton as if he is a tool to Heathcliff (1)
‘But should Linton be unworthy - only a feeble tool to his father - I cannot abandon her to him!’
Both Linton and Edgar are quickly declining (1)
failing almost as fast as himself
