Love/passion Flashcards
“I love the ground under his feet and the air above his head and everything he touches. I love all his locks and all his actions and him entirely and altogether”
-polysyndeton(repeated conjunction) creates a hyperbolic declaration
-syndetic listing, elongated and dramatises her love
-repetition of all (emphasises the extent of her love)
-hyperbolic romantic language shows her passion for him(gothic romance)
“He’s more myself than I am, whatever our souls are made of , his and mine are the same and Linton is as different as moonbeam from lighting, frost from fire.”
-hyperbolic romantic language
-religious imagery of “souls”
-similes of Linton and Cathy as “fire and frost” portrays how different they are .
Context: Emily lived in an isolated life with no contact with men, the hyperbolic language used may be due to love and romance being purely based on her imagination.
“If all else perished and he remained, I should still continue to be but if all else remained and he was annihilated the universe would turn to a mighty stranger”
-personification of the world as a stranger emphasises her line lines without Heathcliff.
-hyperbolic language
“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods, time will change it…I am Heathcliff…he’s always, always in my mind”
-simile for her love for Linton shows how it isn’t strong
-“I am Heathcliff”: metaphor for how they are so similar
-repetition of always emphasises her love
“I’ve been tormented! I’ve been haunted!”
-exclamatory sentences and hyperbolic language show the pain Cathy has felt due to her love for heathcliff
“He(Edgar) could not love as much in 80 years as I could in a day”
-hyperbolic language emphasises her love for Heathcliff
“But they burned with anguish, they did not melt” - chapter 15
-hyperbolic
-connotations of burned show how strong and passionate his love for Cathy is
“Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
-hyperbolic passionate language shows his anguish
-dashes show his disjointed expression due to overwhelming emotion
-exclamation marks emphasises this dramatic
outburst
-“abyss” metaphor for his loneliness with out her.
-metaphor of Cathy as his life and soul shows his connection to her
“I know he loves me and for that reason I love him.”
-Cathy’s description of her love for Linton reflects Catherine’s for Edgar
“One loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed”
-description of hareton and Cathy
-parallel shows how they are now equals
“The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist and that I have lost her!”
-exclamatory sentence shows his pain
-nihilistic and hyperbolic
-metaphor of the world as a collection shows how his world revolves around her
