WH - marriage & unity Flashcards
“Her spirits were always at high-water mark” “She was much too fond of Heathcliff” “And they both set up a heart-breaking cry” “The little souls were comforting each other” “No parson ever pictured Heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talk” (Nelly)
Chapter 5
Early childhood relationship -> hope, & innocence, spirited/wild/good-natured
Innocence foreshadows separation & loneliness/destruction
He brings out this side of her
Sympathetic portrayal
Melodrama
Foreshadowing the future for Heathcliff as a “servant”
“She looked around for Heathcliff” “flew to embrace him” “burst into a laugh” (Nelly)
Chapter 7
Natural instinct for her to look for him
Returning to her home in the Heights AND Heathcliff
He brings out her innate actions and feelings+p, opposite to her actions at the Grange.
“My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff’s miseries” / “he were annihilated the universe would turn to a mighty stranger” / “my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath” / “necessary” / “foiliage” (Cathy)
Chapter 9
Heathcliff IS necessary, and an ever-present solidity
Declarative exclamation
Her love for Linton is ‘foliage’ changing format, crumples, temporary, but has the benefits of social superiority/status.
H = rocks - unchangeable format, - he is permanent in her mind & soul
There is no meaning without him.
“He’s more myself than I am” / “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same” / “Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightening or frost from fire”. / “Nelly I am Heathcliff” (Cathy)
Chapter 9
Oxymoron - incompatibility, cannot exist together, one overpowers the other, lightening = destructive force.
Loves Heathcliff inside out, for all of his flaws (“souls”) she has found comfort & unfortunate compatibility.
Her passionate/true self - exclamative love.
“Here and here!” / “striking one hand on her forehead and the other on her breast” / “in my soul and in my heart, I’m convinced I’m wrong!”
Deep inner spiritual connection, no hesitation, natural/innate reaction.
Her love for Edgar is conventially influenced = not natural, forced.
