love Flashcards
Cathy kicked out of heaven
-‘heaven did not seem to be my home’
-‘the angels were so angry that they flung me out, into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy’
Cathy describing Heathcliff as part of her which contrasts to her feeling for Edgar
-‘I am Heathcliff’
Heathcliff is ‘more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same, and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire’
Cathy describes marrying Heathcliff would…
‘degrade’ her
Heathcliff as the world to Catherine as mother is the world to the symbiotic child
‘If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn into a mighty stranger’
Catherine’s reaction to Heathcliff’s exit
-Catherine tells Nelly to ‘shut the window’
-she breaks down into ‘uncontrollable grief’
-‘fever’
Catherine and Heathcliff’s reunion
-Catherine ‘kept her gaze fixed on him as if she feared he would vanish’
-‘they were too much absorbed in their mutual joy’
Catherine’s solution for the conflict between Heathcliff and Edgar
‘I’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own’
Heathcliff’s bitterness towards Catherine for choosing Edgar
-‘You loved me… then what right had you to leave me’
-Catherine responds ‘forgive me!’
Heathcliff haunted by Catherine
‘in every object of day, I am surrounded with her image!’
Heathcliff’s reaction to Catherine telling him about Isabella’s fancy
-‘I want you to be aware that I know you have treated me internally’
-‘thank you for telling me your sister in laws secret- I swear I’ll make the most of it’
Heathcliff’s love for Haretone
‘Hareton seemed a personification of my youth, not a human being- I felt him in a variety of ways’
‘ghost of my immortal love’
Heathcliff’s struggling to describe his battle with the vision of Catherine
‘my pride, my happiness, my anguish- but it is frenzy to repeat these thoughts to you’- enlarging on inner feelings then adopts objective view.
Catherine as an animal
The choice between Edgar and Heathcliff causes her “feverish bewilderment to madness, and tore the pillow with her teeth”
Catherine starving herself
“she fasted pertinaciously”
Edgar’s grief for Catherine
“oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?”
Heathcliff’s love for Catherine?
“nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us”
“I love my murder- but yours! how could I?”- passion of love expressed through violent diction (violent upbringing)
bond between young Catherine and Hareton
“the enemies were , thenceforth, sworn allies”
Romantic setting of Wuthering Heights
“splendid moon”
“fragrance of stocks and wallflower”
“both doors and lattices were open”- opening of liminal spaces
Isabella’s naivety towards love (Isabella speaking to Catherine)
“he might love me, if you would let him!”
Isabella disliking Heathcliff
“I do hate him- I am wretched- I have been a fool”
Heathcliff confronting Isabella’s delusions
“picturing in me a hero of romance, and expecting unlimited indulgences from my chivalrous devotion”
Isabella as transgressive
“I’ll smash it!” “I’ll burn it!” (wedding ring)
Isabella’s escape from entrapment
“I have run the whole way from withering heights!”
Heathcliff’s grief over Catherine
“I have to remind myself to breathe- almost to remind my heart to beat!”
“I’m animated with hunger; and, seemingly, I must not eat”
Catherine’s attitude to marrying Edgar
“greatest woman of the neighbourhood”
Catherine’s plan to raise Heathcliff’s status by marrying Edgar
“If I marry Linton I can aid Heathcliff to rise”
Cathy describing her love for Linton
“like the foliage in the woods”. Foliage- easily broken
Heathcliff to Linton
“This lamb of yours threatens like a bull”
Isabella calling Heathcliff a devil
“Is he a devil?”
Heathcliff’s reaction to Cathy’s death, Byronic hero persona intensifies
“He howled, not like a man, but like a savage beast”
Heathcliff to Catherine- wanting to be haunted
“Be with me always-take any form”
the moors
“But it was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors”
