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”
