Isolation

Question 1

“They wouldn’t let me go to the end of the garden wall”

Answer 1

-Catherine jr is a prisoner in wh
-hyperbolic language reflects how isolated she is.

Question 2

“Surveying the country from her nursery window”

Answer 2

-motif of the window represents her isolation
-in contrast the moors represent freedoms and wildness

Question 3

“We might contrive to get through the window there or into a garret”
-Catherine jr

Answer 3

-theme of escape
-metaphor for how they are isolated and want to escape

Question 4

“He took it into his head to destroy my books”

Answer 4

-books represent Cathy’s escape from wuthering heights
-also they rep power and education and heathcliffs destruction of them shows his attempts to deprive her of this

Question 5

“The grey church looked greyer and the lonely churchyard looked lonelier”

Answer 5

-Lockwood description and use of superlatives emphasises the isolation in wuthering heights and how life has been sucked out of it

Question 6

“I had neither to climb the gate nor to knock- it yielded to my hand”

Answer 6

-hyperbolic
-metaphor for the change that has occurred and how freedom has been given now Heathcliff is dead

Question 7

“Both doors and lattices were open”

Answer 7

• metaphor for the freedom that they now have in wuthering heihhts

Question 8

“Both doors and lattices were open”

Answer 8

• metaphor for the freedom that they now have in Wuthering heights