WH Quotes - Gender Roles Flashcards
[Cathy to Edgar after their fight] “‘You must not go!’ she exclaimed, energetically.
‘I must and I shall!’ he replied in a subdued voice.”
Chapter 8, Page 51, top
“She was about to dart off again; but Edgar arrested her.”
Chapter 10, Page 68, bottom
[Cathy] “the thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
Chapter 15, Page 116, bottom
[Cathy] “I shall be sorry for you. I shall be incomparably beyond and above you all”
Chapter 15, Page 116, bottom
[Description of Catherine] “she could be soft and mild as a dove, and she had a gentle voice and pensive expression: her anger was never furious; her love never fierce.”
Chapter 18, Page 137, middle
[Linton and Catherine’s constraining heavens] “He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to speckle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine, and began to grown very snappish”
Chapter 24, Page 180, 1/3rd down
[Linton to Catherine] “He clasped her in his two feeble arms sobbing:- ‘Won’t you have me, and save me?”
Chapter 27, Page 198, middle
