WH: Rejecting Convention, Rejecting Clichés and Non-conformity within Love Flashcards
Cathy describing her feelings for Edgar
“I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches, and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions, and him entirely and altogether. There now!”
C9, P56
Cathy’s symbolic dream
“I was only going to say that heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. That will do to explain my secret, as well as the other. I’ve no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn’t have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightening, or frost from fire”
C9, P57
Heathcliff - heaven vs hell
Heathcliff: “Last night I was on the threshold of hell. Today, I am within sight of my heaven.”
C34, P238
Unvalued and uncoveted
Heathcliff: “I have nearly attained my heaven; and that of others is altogether unvalued and uncoveted by me.”
C34, P242
