Wuthering Heights Flashcards
Isolation (2)
1) completely removed from the stir of society
2) A perfect misanthropist’s heaven!
Weather
atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather
The defensiveness and aggression (5)
1) range of gaunt thorns
2) narrow windows deeply set in the wall
3) the corners defended with large jutting stones
4) kitchen is forced to retreat into another quarter altogether
5) ‘Wretched inmates!…I would not keep my doors barred in the day time…I will get in!’ (semantic field of prison)
The fire (1)
glowed delightfully in the radiance of an immense fire
Heathcliff thinking Lockwood’s original room is haunted
her master had an odd notion about the chamber
No religion (2)
1) The curate dropped calling
2) ‘I was told the curate should have his — teeth dashed down his — throat, if he stepped over the threshold’
Isabella’s gothic description (1)
‘as if we lived in an ancient castle’
Description after Cathy dies (1)
early trees smittened and blackened
Transgressing the boundaries (1)
‘he bid us keep on the Grange land, and here we are, off at once’
Lockwood as he tries to enter in Chapter 17 (1)
the jealous gate was fastened
Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange as two separate worlds (1)
With the glow of a sinking sun behind, and the mild glory of a rising sun in front - one fading, and the other brightening
The change,, Wuthering Heights is now open, unguarded (2)
1) I had neither to climb the gate nor knock it
2) Both doors and lattices were open
It is abandoned (1)
‘For the use of such ghosts who choose to inhabit it?’
Thrushcross Grange contrast (1)
‘a splendid place carpeted with crimson, and crimson-covered chairs and tables, and a pure-white ceiling bordered by gold…’
