Wuthering Heights Quotes Flashcards

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“Gypsy brat”

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Othering

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“Fling it out of doors”

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Symbol of boundaries that must be overcome

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“I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven”

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She feels like to marry Edgar would be the death of her

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“It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now”

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Have to be well married to be respected
Trapped in a dilemma
Society upon human psyche

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“My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath”

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Still standing no matter what

Links to nature and the purity of their love

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“he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man”

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Catherine is realising what Heathcliff has become

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“Imp of satan”

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Othering

Foreshadowing the evil later to come

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