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Wuthering Heights Quotes Flashcards 1
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- 1‘provoked a long, guttural snarl’...’growled Mr Heathcliff'Anthropomorphism? Vicious
- 2’T’ maister’s dahn i’ t’ fowld'True working class dialect
- 3‘slender’...’scarcely past girlhood’...’exquisite little face'Contrast to Heathcliff
- 4‘I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes'Foreshadows Heathcliff’s later haunting. Ambiguous encounter-deliberate. ‘its’-pronoun, dehumanises the ghost-supernatural. Violence. ‘blood...bedclothes’-highlights the brutality-vivid.
- 5‘It’s a cuckoo’s, sir'Lay eggs in other nest-raised by other birds/pushes against host family-a reflection of Heathcliff.
- 6‘Hindley degrading himself past redemption; and became daily more notable for savage sullenness and ferocity'Described almost as an animal. Hindley is deteriorating.
- 7‘as one came in and the other went out'Can see a contrast between Heathcliff and Linton.
- 8‘To show that I do take notice'Heathcliff’s love is bordering obsession.
- 9‘a bleak, hilly, coal country for a beautiful fertile valley'Individuals linked to landscape. Contrast of Heathcliff and Linton.
- 10‘She never had power to conceal her passion, it always set her whole complexion in a blaze'Imagery of fire to represent her wildness.
- 11‘his idol had commited'Linton is naive.
- 12‘cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed, or a bird half eaten'Linton is lowered to animal imagery reflecting his meek power of Catherine.
- 13‘Wuthering Heights, where I woke sobbing for joy'Cathy’s idea of heaven is Wuthering Heights, and in nature.
- 14‘It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff'19th century marriage for social gain-society over nature.
- 15‘not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am'Allusions of them as literal soul mates-transgressive in a society where this intensive love should only be for spouse.
- 16‘souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire'Juxtaposition sets Heathcliff and Linton as binary opposites. Natural imagery-their love force of nature. Descriptions almost oxymoronic-love so intense-supernatural quality.
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