Wuthering Heights critics

Question 1

David Cecil

Answer 1

‘child of calm’ and ‘child of storm’

Question 2

Charlotte Bronte on Heathcliff

Answer 2

he is ‘an afreet’
an ‘arrow straight course to perdition’

Question 3

Haque on paternal relationships

Answer 3

‘Uncaring fathers are shown throughout this story to be an element of destructive relationships’

Question 4

Polhemus on Cathy and H

Answer 4

‘Cathy and Heathcliff put their faith in one another as Christians put their faith into God’

Question 5

Dorothy Van Ghent on liminal spaces

Answer 5

Symbolic of ‘conversion’ and ‘break throughs’

Question 6

Julins Brenzaidian on the Gothic protagonist

Answer 6

‘The Gothic protagonist is a sinister tyrant, dark and demonic and is impelled by human cruelty’

Question 7

D G Rossetti

Answer 7

‘fiend’ of a book

Question 8

Khanis on Cathy’s marriage

Answer 8

‘Conflict of Cathy’s marriage can only be solved in her death’

Question 9

Judith Pike on Isabella

Answer 9

Isabella acts as ‘an instrument of revenge for Heathcliff’

Question 10

Stone on Heathcliff

Answer 10

‘Heathcliff serves as a warning of…unregulated will’

Question 11

Plato’s symposium

Answer 11

Each of seeks a ‘matching half’ of a ‘human whole’

Question 12

Charlotte Bronte on the novel

Answer 12

A novel ‘hewn in a wild workshop with simple tools, out of homely materials’

Question 13

Virginia Woolf on love in the novel

Answer 13

‘There is love, but it is not the love of men and women’