WH: Doomed Love and Destruction

Question 1

Edgar after fighting with Cathy

Answer 1

He possessed the power to depart as much as a cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten

C8, P51

Question 2

Cathy’s marriage before Heathcliff returns

Answer 2

The gunpowder lay as harmless as sand, because no fire came near to explode it

C10, P66

Question 3

Cathy warning Isabella about Heathcliff

Answer 3

“Nelly, help me convince her of her madness. Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone. I’d as soon put that little canary into the park on a winter’s day, as recommend you to bestow your heart on him! It is deplorable ignorance of his character, child, and nothing else, which makes that dream enter your head”

C10, P71

Question 4

You have killed me

Answer 4

Cathy: “You have killed me - and thrived on it, I think”

C15, P115

Question 5

Cathy and Heathcliff embracing

Answer 5

They were locked in an embrace from which I thought my mistress would never be released alive

C15, P117