Quotes Flashcards
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Wuthering Heights setting
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- “completely removed from the stir of society”
- “primitive structure” “gaudily painted cannisters”
- “atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather”
- “excessive slant of a few stunted fir…as if craving alms of the sun”
- “narrow windows are deeply set in the wall, and the corners defended with large jutting stones.” a “grotesque carving”
- “haunted… —swarming with ghosts”
- “situation and residence so much inferior” to Thrushcross Grange – Lockwood on Wuthering Heights
- “preserve the common sympathies of human nature when you resided here?” – Isabella
- “an ancient castle.”
- “dogs haunted other recesses. – Living within,
- occupants referred to as “inmates” just as prisoners would be
- “never was such a dreary, dismal scene as the formerly cheerful house presented!” – changed by Heathcliff
- “hanging a litter of puppies” in the kitchen – Most civilised room brooding with violence and cruelty
- “the storm came rattling over the Heights in full fury” – Heathcliffs departure
- storm sends “ a clatter of stones and soot into the kitchen-fire” – Physical boundary against unbridled emotion
- “bonnetless and shawl-less to catch as much water as she could with her hair” – Embracing passion
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Moors and Nature
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- “one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors,…..and the after punishment grew a mere thing to laugh at” – Nelly on Heathcliff and Catherine
- “cool dusky dells…great swells of long grass undulating in the breeze”
- “lost in the marshes”
- “‘Cathy and (Heathcliff) escaped” to the moors to “have a ramble at liberty”
- “carried his ill-humour on to the moors… reflection seemed to have brought him to a better spirit” – Nelly on Heathcliff
- “Heathcliff should take a moonlight saunter on the moors,”
- “ (Linton) said the pleasantest manner of spending a hot July day was lying from morning till evening on a bank of heath in the middle of the moors, with the bees humming dreamily about.”
- “(Linton) wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; (Cathy) wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. (Cathy) said his heaven would be only half alive; and (Linton) said mine would be drunk.”
- “he walks: there are those who speak to having met him near the church, and on the moor, and even within this house”
- spends time “hunting” on the moors
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Thrushcross Grange
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- “a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson-covered chairs and tables, and a pure white ceiling bordered by gold”
- “tame pheasant.”
- “deemed it judicious to moderate her expressions of pleasure in receiving him’ – Thrushcross by its nature supresses Catherine’s ability to express herself”
- “your veins are full of ice-water; but mine are boiling” – juxtaposition of emotional response by the forces of storm and calm
- “The Grange is not a prison”
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Heathcliff Physical
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- Demonic: “as dark almost as if it came from the devil.”
- “imp of Satan”, “black villain.” “blackguard” ‘incarnate goblin”, “his kin beneath” “hellish villain”
- “Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?”, “a monster, and not a human being”
- “I’ll haunt the place”
- Physical: “gipsy brat”
- “I like to be dirty, and I will be dirty.”
- “I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!’”
- Eyes: “open their windows boldly,”
- “devil’s spies”
- “to smooth away the surly wrinkles,… and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels”
5
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Heathcliff good
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• saves Hareton “by a natural impulse”
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Heathcliff degradation
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- “he loses friend, and love, and all!” – When Catherine leaves
- Impersonal pronoun “it”
- “hardened, perhaps, to ill treatment”
- “you have treated me infernally—infernally! “ – Heathcliff to Catherine
- “treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends” - Nelly
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Heathcliff animal
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- “mad dog”, “savage beast”
* “growled Mr. Heathcliff”
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Heathcliff Love
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- “The greatest punishment we could invent for her was to keep her separate from him”
- “I have not broken your heart— you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine”
- “while you are at peace I shall writhe in the torments of hell?”
- “Why shouldn’t you suffer? I do”
- “I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
- “howled, not like a man, but like a savage beast being goaded to death with knives and spears”
- “I could almost see her, and yet I could not!… Intolerable torture! Infernal!”
- “-because it has devoured my existence”
- “In every cloud, in every tree—filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day—I am surrounded with her image!”
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Heathcliff Changes
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- “Altered”, “upright carriage”, “well formed”, “tall, athletic, well-formed man”
- “A halfcivilised ferocity lurked yet in the depressed brows and eyes full of black fire”
- “his manner was even dignified”
- suggestion of Heathcliff being a “soldier” in the “army” emphasises conformity to strict rigid rule.
- Catherine exclaims “new phase of his character is this?” saying that “That is not my Heathcliff. “
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Heathcliff cruelty
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“hang up her little dog”
• “a venomous serpent could not rouse terror in me equal to that which he wakens”
• “The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!”
• “gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death, and flung it back to me.”
11
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Heathclifff —> As a Proletariat→Bourgeoisie Capitalist + Revenge
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- “The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don’t turn against him; they crush those beneath them”
- Joseph says “(Hindley’s) goold runs into (Heathcliff’s) pocket”
- “‘It’s a cuckoo’s…And Hareton has been cast out like an unfledged dunnock”
- Hareton “lost the benefit of his early education”
- ‘Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we’ll see if one tree won’t grow as crooked as another, with the wind to twist it”
- “”He’ll never be able to emerge from his bathos of coarseness and ignorance”
- “I’ve got him faster than his scoundrel of a father secured me”
- Linton is his “property”
12
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Heathcliff Marriage as a capitalist:
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- “he couldn’t love a Linton; and yet he’d be quite capable of marrying your fortune and expectation”
- Stares hard at “the object of discourse” – Isabella – “as one might do at a strange repulsive animal”
- “I should be Edgar’s proxy in suffering”
- Forcing Cathy to “either accept him or remain a prisoner” – Which she remains in marriage
- Heathcliff admits he “married (Isabella) on purpose to obtain power over (Catherine).”
13
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Heathcliff changes in death
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- Just when “he seemed ready to tear Catherine in pieces… his fingers relaxed and gazed intently in her face”
- “Hareton seemed a personification of (Heathcliff’s) youth,”
- “I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction,”
- “I haven’t to remind myself to breathe—almost to remind my heart to beat”
- “I have a single wish, and my whole being and faculties are yearning to attain it”
- “MY heaven; and that of others is altogether unvalued and uncovered by me.”
- “excited expression” quivering like a “tight-stretched cord vibrates—a strong thrilling”
- “I wish I could annihilate his land from the face of the earth.” – removal of material things
- “I was sleeping the last sleep by that sleeper, with my heart stopped and my cheek frozen against hers.”
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Lockwood
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- “laconic style of chipping off his pronouns and auxiliary verbs” – Lockwood on Heathcliff
- “Unluckily, it was a heap of dead rabbits” – Lockwood confused for a cushion
- “Terror made me cruel”
- “I pulled its wrist on the broken pane…till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes”
- “hurridly piled the books in a pyramid against it”
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Nelly
Bias Unreliable
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“as our Miss Cathy is of us”—“domestic” Nelly identifys with “civilised behaviour”
• “and had no impulse to sympathise with her”
• “I would frame high notions of my birth”
• “lay the blame of his disappearance on her: where indeed it belonged,”
Educated, upward and civilised:
• “You could not open a book in this library that I have not looked into”
• ““perused this epistle” – complex linguistic structure and variable vocabulary
