Death

Question 1

Catherine desiring death

Answer 1

-‘my narrow home out yonder, my resting place’
-Dead, her eyes have a ‘dreamy and melancholy softness’

Question 2

Nelly interpreting Catherine’s death as symbiotic oneness

Answer 2

‘Weather still on earth or now in heaven, her spirit is at home with God!’

Question 3

Heathcliff’s response to Catherine’s death

Answer 3

‘Be with me always- take any form- drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!’

Question 4

Catherine desiring to be at the Heights through the use of liminal spacing

Answer 4

‘open the window again wide, fasten it open’- openness to nature

Question 5

Heathcliff being haunted by Catherine

Answer 5

-‘she has disturbed me, night and day’
-‘I felt her by me- I could almost see her, and yet I could not!’

Question 6

Heathcliff describes the illusion of Catherine as…

Answer 6

’ a strange way of killing’ which has ‘racked’ him

Question 7

Heathcliff describes death as…

Answer 7

‘the last sleep’

Question 8

Catherine dying

Answer 8

“And I dying! I on the brink of the grave”

Question 9

Catherine’s flash back with Heathcliff about nests- maternal anxieties

Answer 9

nest was “full of little skeleton”- qrotesque image of death foreshadowing death of children

Question 10

Hindley’s death

Answer 10

“died true to his character: drunk as a lord”