WH: Gender Roles

Question 1

Cathy after the fight with Edgar

Answer 1

Cathy: “You must not go!” she exclaimed, energetically. “I must and shall!” he replied in a subdued voice

C8, P51

Question 2

Edgar arrested her

Answer 2

She was about to dart off again; but Edgar arrested her

C10, P68

Question 3

Shattered prison

Answer 3

Cathy: “The thing that irks me most is this shattered prison, after all. I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to always be there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it”

C15, P115

Question 4

Cathy - I shall be sorry for you

Answer 4

Cathy: “I shall be sorry for you. I shall be incomparably beyond and above you all”

C15, P116

Question 5

Description of Catherine

Answer 5

She could be soft and mild as a dove, and she had a gentle voice and pensive expression: her anger was never furious; her love never fierce

C18, P137

Question 6

Linton and Catherine’s contrasting heavens

Answer 6

He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine, and began to grow very snappish

C24, P180

Question 7

Linton to Catherine

Answer 7

He clasped her in his two feeble arms sobbing - “Won’t you have me, and save me?”

C27, P198