Hareton Flashcards
Nelly nurses Hareton (1)
my first bonny little nursling
Hareton swears at Nelly (1)
then ensued, from the stammering lips of the little fellow, a string of curses
An echo of Hareton with Heathcliff. Hareton is hanging puppies (1)
‘I knocked over Hareton, who was hanging a litter of puppies from a chair’
Hareton lives in his own property as a servant (1)
lives in his own house as a servant, deprived of the advantage of wages
Hareton has a fancy for Catherine
1) blushing bashfully
2) grew black as a thundercloud
A link between Hareton and Heathcliff, both as fertile soil (2)
1) Good things lost amid a wilderness of weeds
2) evidence of a wealthy soil that might yield luxurious crops, under other and favourable circumstances
Heathcliff admires Hareton (1)
‘Do you know that, twenty times a day, I covet Hareton, with all his degradation? I’d have loved the lad had he been someone else’
Hareton is compared to Linton (1)
‘One is gold put to the use of paving stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver’
Hareton as a jailer to Nelly (1)
he was a model of a jailer
Hareton as a handsome (1)
‘handsome features glowed with pleasure’
Hareton’s reponse to Heathcliff’s death (1)
He sat by the corpse all night, weeping in bitter earnest
Lockwood struggles to work out Hareton’s status at the beginning. Hareton is similar to Heathcliff (1)
I began to doubt whether he were a servant or not; his dress and speech were both rude… still his bearing was free, almost haughty
