WH: Suffering

Question 1

Branded in my memory

Answer 1

Heathcliff: “Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me?”

C15, P116

Question 2

Sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion

Answer 2

Heathcliff: “May she wake in torment!” he cried, with frightful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paroxysm of ungovernable passion

C16, P121

Question 3

Savage beast

Answer 3

[Heathcliff] howled, not like a man, but like a savage beast being goaded to death with knives and spears

C16, P122

Question 4

Heathcliff about Hareton

Answer 4

“I’ve tied his tongue” observed Heathcliff

C21, P159

Question 5

Heathcliff talking about Hareton

Answer 5

“And 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”

C21, P159

Question 6

Eternally secluded

Answer 6

Heathcliff: “My mind is so eternally secluded in itself”

C33, P235

Question 7

Misery

Answer 7

C29, P208

Question 8

Pleasure and pain

Answer 8

[Heathcliff] He gazed at something within two yards’ distance. And whatever it was, it communicated, apparently, both pleasure and pain in exquisite extremes: at least the anguished , yet raptured, expression of his countenance suggested that idea.

C34, P240

Question 9

Does not satisfy

Answer 9

Heathcliff: “My soul’s bliss kills my body, but does not satisfy itself”

C34, P242