Isabella

Question 1

Isabella believes Heathcliff could love her (1)

Answer 1

‘I love him more than ever you have loved Edgar; and he might love me if you would let him’

Question 2

Heathcliff imagines what he would do to Isabella if he ever had to marry her (1)

Answer 2

‘You’d hear of odd things, if I lived along with that mawkish, waxen face; the most ordinary would be painting on its white the colours of the rainbow, and turning the blue eyes black, every day or two they detestably resembled Linton’s’

Question 3

Wuthering Heights has turned Isabella violent (1)

Answer 3

‘I surveyed the weapon inquisitively…How powerful I should be possessing such an instrument’

Question 4

Wuthering Heights turns Isabella into a broken woman (1)

Answer 4

‘hid my face in my hands, and cried’

Question 5

Isabella admits her mistake (1)

Answer 5

‘I do hate him - I am wretched - I have been a fool!’

Question 6

Isabella still married Heathcliff even after seeing him hanging her dog (1)

Answer 6

‘The first thing she saw me do… was to hang up her little dog; and when she pleaded for it, the first words I uttered were a wish that I had the hanging of every being belonging to her’

Question 7

Isabella thought Heathcliff was romantic (1)

Answer 7

‘She abandoned them under a delusion…picturing in me a hero of romance’

Question 8

Isabella is so foolish to even believe Heathcliff could still want her (1)

Answer 8

‘he shall buy me another, if he gets me back’

Question 9

Isabella has turned violent and fantasises about doing this to Heathcliff (1)

Answer 9

‘Pulling out the nerves with red-hot pincers…’

Question 10

Isabella has turned cruel to Heathcliff and is almost sadistic (2)

Answer 10

1) ‘I experienced pleasure in being able to exasperate him’

2) ‘Heathcliff, if I were you, I’d go stretch myself over [Catherine’s] grave and die like a faithful dog’