Social Conventions Flashcards
Catherine as powerless
‘Who can help it?’
Disenfranchisement of narrators
Tess
‘Justice was done’
Edgar scared of Cathys love for heathcliff
‘Mr Edgar had a deep rooted fear of ruffling her humour’
Tess growing up
‘As Tess grew older she began to see how matters stood’
Tess never given a childhood
‘Flinging baby from side to side’
Childhood - heights
‘Animated with the eager interest of children’
Sheltered life - wuthering heights
Neither experienced nor envinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity’
Tess asking about men
‘Why didn’t you tell me there was a danger in men folk’
Tess and beauty
‘Growing up so beautiful’
Marlott described as
‘The atmosphere colourless’
Chase
‘Wrapped in thick darkness’
Residence at wh
‘Irritable and reckless’
Cathy when she returns from thrushcross
‘Dignified’ ‘lady’
Wuthering heights said to be
‘Completely removed from the stir of society’
The grange description
‘Vast’