Violence Flashcards
“Rough as a saw-edge and hard as whinstone”
-similes emphasis Heathcliffs violent nature
“Black fiends”
-description of Heathcliffs eyes as black connotes violence and sinister
-could be supernatural
-idea of him as an other
-motif
“Turning the blue eyes black”
-metaphor for beating her
-shows the treatment of women in those times
“Evil beast prowled”
-zoomorphism
-suggests Heathcliff as supernatural or animalistic but not quite human
-violence
“Is mr Heathcliff a man? If so is he mad? And if not is he a devil?…what have I married?”
-rhetorical questions show the mysterious depiction for Heathcliff and his otherness
-connotation of the devil as evil
“A tiger of venomous serpent could not rouse fear in me that equals that which he wakens”
-comparison of Heathcliff to animals that connote danger
“He gnashed at me and foamed like a mad dog”
- zoomorphism shows Heathcliff violence and otherness
-“gnashed” connotes violence
-simile of mad dog shows he is not civilised
“Stamping his foot” “groaning”
-zoomorphism of Heathcliff
“The brute beast”
reference to heathcliffs violence
-bilabial plosives create harsh sounds
-brute connotes a lower class
“I gave him my heart and he pinched it to death”
- metaphor for the pain Heathcliff has caused Isobel and the disregard of her love
“You’ll be able to pay her back her present tyrannies with a vigorous hand”
-metaphor for abuse
-normalises it
-cycle of abuse
“He’s as bitter as gall”
-Cathy uses this simile to describe Heathcliff- the comparison of poision emphasises his violence
“The more hurt she gets the more venemous she grows”
-hyperbolic
-notion that wuthering heights corrupts people and it has made Cathy malevolent
