Wuthering Heights Quotes Flashcards
Direct quotes from the text
Lockwood’s early paranormal vision?
‘ice cold hand’,
‘blood ran down and soaked the bed clothes’
The dialogue in the ghostly vision of Catherine?
‘been a waif for twenty years!’
Lockwood’s justification for Catherine’s ghostly state?
‘a punishment for her mortal transgressions […]!’
Heathcliff is a demon monkey?
‘imp of satan’
Heathcliff is portrayed as a racial other?
‘as dark almost as if it came from the devil’
Isabella compares him to a vampire?
‘sharp, cannibal teeth’
Nelly’s rhetorical question of Heathcliff’s supernatural identity?
‘Is he a ghoul, or a vampire?’
When Heathcliff returns, Nelly does not believe him to be human?
‘uncertain whether to regard him as a worldly visitor’
Supernatural relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine?
Catherine’s confident assertions that ‘[Heathcliff’s] in my soul’ (p161), and that she ‘is Heathcliff’ (p82)
Isabella’s fear of Heathcliff?
‘Is Mr Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he a devil?’
Heathcliff’s moment of realisation?
‘I’ve made myself worse than the devil’
Heathcliff’s belief in ghosts?
‘I have strong faith in ghosts; I have a conviction that they can, and do exist, among us!’