power Flashcards
Mr Earnshaw abusing Catherine?
When Cathy spits at Heathcliff, she earns ‘a sound blow from her father to teach her cleaner manners’
Hindley name calling Heathcliff?
‘gipsy’ ‘beggarly interloper’
Hindley using his authority as head of the household to assert violence?
‘I’ll demolish the first who puts me out of temper’- Hindley to Heathcliff and Catherine
Heathcliff imaging bruising Isabella’s face?
‘turning the blue eyes black, every day or two’
Heathcliff dehumanising Linton Heathcliff?
refers to him as ‘property’ and ‘it’
Heathcliff abusing younger Catherine?
he administers ‘a shower of terrific slaps on both sides of the head’
Linton’s violence and primitive nature exposed
He kept out the wailing child- ‘pulled its wrist’ ‘till the blood ran downed soaked the bedclothes’
Catherine’s memory of the lapwings
‘It wanted to get to it’s nest’ and nest was ‘full of little skeletons. Heathcliff set a trap over it’
Heathcliff causes separation of parent and child, conveying him as a cuckoo
Catherine’s transformation from the Linton’s family
“her manners manners much improved”
she wore “white trousers and burnished shoes” and “splendid garments”
Catherine’s prejudice towards Heathcliff
“how very black and cross you look! and how- how funny and grim!”
Heathcliff rejecting authority and holding power over his appearance
“I shall be as dirty as I please”- Heathcliff neglected without Cathy
Heathcliff envying Edgar’s physionomy
“I must wish for Edgar Linton’s great blue eyes”
Lintons as of higher class
Linton’s descend from “family carriage, smothered in cloaks and furs”
Heathcliff as an orphan
“good as dumb, in the streets of Liverpool, where he picked it up and inquired for its owner”
Heathcliff’s transformation
“a tall, athletic, well-formed man”
“no marks of former degradation”
“eyes full of black fire”
Heathcliff’s domestic abuse against Isabella
“turning the blue eyes black, every day or two”
Isabella as abused
“white face scratched and bruised”
Hareton’s transformation
“his handsome features glowed with pleasure”
Younger Catherine’s entrapment in Wuthering heights by Heathcliff
“she was forbidden to move out of the garden, and it fretted her sadly to be confined to its narrow bounds”
Lockwood describing Nelly’s stories as
“regular gossip”
Lockwood as an unreliable narrator
calls himself a “vain weathercock” feeling “compelled to strike my colours”
Nelly’s description of Heathcliff
“as dark almost as if it almost came from the devil”
Lockwood as gentile
Lockwood believed the cushion to be “something like cats” when “unlikely it was a heap of dead rabbits”
Heathcliff described as an animal
“his whiskers”
the omnipresence of Catherine
“the air swarmed with Catherines”
Heathcliff being brought into the house for the first time, the other, zoomorphism
“a dirty, ragged, black-haired child
Setting of Thrushcross grange?
“splendid place carpeted with crimson”
“We should have have thought ourselves in heaven!”
Catherine being mean to Hareton- asserts her dominance. Links to the doubling of her and her mother.
“laughing heartily at his failure”
Heathcliff as a byronic hero
“He is a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in address and manners a gentlemen”
Nelly’s description of Joesph
“the wearisomest self-righteous Pharisee that ever ransacked a Bible”
“the more feeble the master became, the more influence he gained”- Joesph’s power over Mr Earnshaw
Joesph’s power over the children
Joseph uses his influence to remind Hindley ‘‘to order Heathcliff a flogging, and Catherine a fast from dinner or supper,’’ each time the two missed church
