Wuthering Heights Quotes Mindmap

Wuthering Heights Quotes Mindmap

1. Heathcliff

   • Naughty swearing boy
   • Eyes, deep set
   • Clouded windows of hell
   • A fierce, pitiless, wolfish man
   • He howled, not like a man, but a savage beast
   • Imp of satan
   • A bird of bad omen
   • "Is he a man, if so he is mad. If not, he is a devil"
   • "That couple of black fiends, so deeply buried, who never open their windows boldly, but lurk glinting under them"
     • Like Devil's spies

2. The Soul and Afterlife

   • I cannot live without my soul
   • Existence after losing [Catherine] would be hell
   • Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?
   • You say I killed you, Haunt me then
   • Take any form -- drive me mad
     • Do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you
   • I won't rest til you are with me, I never will
   • Whatever our souls are made from, [Heathcliff's] and mine are the same
     • [Linton's] and mine are as different from moonbeams and lightning, from frost and fire.

3. Violence

   • Terror made me cruel, I pulled its wrist onto the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro til the BLOOD ran down
   • Would it not be a kindness to the county to hang [Heathcliff] before he shows his nature in acts as well as features" - Mr. Linton
   • My fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense horror of nightmare came over me.
   • The more the worms writhe, the more i wish to crush out their entrails
   • "How powerful I should be, posesing such an instrument. I took it from [Hindley's] hand and touched the blade"
   • I shall paint her face with the colours of the rainbow. I shall colour her blue eyes black.
   • A most melancholy voice cried "Let me in! Let me in! I've been a waif for 20 years"