Wuthering Heights Flashcards
(18 cards)
What does the quote ‘It is not my fault that I am not like you’ suggest about Heathcliff?
His feelings of alienation and difference
Points to the effect of his neglect as a child, the setting of Wuthering heights mirrors each Charecters isolation
What does the quote ‘I’ll be a fool to be a slave to my heart’ imply?
Heathcliff’s struggle with his emotions, he feels weak for being ruled by his love for Catherine.
What is the significance of the quote ‘You loved me—then what right had you to leave me?’?
It highlights Catherine’s betrayal of Heathcliff and the tragedy of Catherine’s choice.
What does Heathcliff’s character symbolize in Wuthering Heights?
The destructive power of love
What does the phrase ‘the wind howled’ symbolize in the novel?
The tumultuous emotions of the characters
What does the quote ‘It is a long time since I have heard anything so bad.’ indicate?
Nelly Dean’s perspective on the family’s dysfunction
Multiple Choice: What does the character of Hindley represent?
Abuse and neglect
Poem comparison for memory
WH
“You said I killed you - haunt me then!” HC is tormented by C memory, even wishing she would return in ghostly form,. Memory becomes a form of haunting, in WH literally and emotionally
Poem - Non Sum
“When the feast is finished, and the lamps expire, then falls thy shadow, Cynara! The night is thine.”
Personifies the night as she owns his surroundings, he is haunted by her memory and cannot escape it.
Comparison for futility of love
Love is futile and unattainable
WH
Their love is powerful but blocked by circumstance and status: “it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now”
HC seeks control trying to dominate those who took Catherine from him however, this control never restores the love he lost
Whoso list to hunt I know where is an hynde:
“Noli mi rangers,for caesars I are” makes it explicit she belongs to another and no amount of passion can succeed this.
Comparison for admiration
She Walks In Beauty
Admiration is sacred, detached and respectful with a focus on the relationship between her outer appearance & inner virtue. “She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies” elevates the woman rather than consuming her
WH
Admiration is destructive as it is consuming “i cannot live without my soul” HC admiration of C is alike to a soul connection
Comparison for pain
Absent from Thee
“When wearied with a world of woe” speaker acknowledges his own role in his suffering, he wanders despite knowing it brings pain, the world of woe is imposed by the beloved by his own choices
“Mourn” “languish” speaker is trapped in longing unable to escape his cycle of guilt & pain use of these words evokes voluntary yet torturous repetition
WH
“I have not broken your heart-you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine” HC & C inflict pain upon eachother,knowingly, they dont retire to safety like Wilmot they escalate the suffering.
“Her features are shaped in the flags!” Haunted in every moment no escape from his love or pain while poem is more abstract pain HC torment is all consuming
Comparison for destruction
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
“I saw starved lips in the gloam” lines depict the knight’s dream of previous victims ensnared by the same enchantress- shows cycle of destruction
“She wept and sighed full sore” her otherworldly allure, empathy and manipulation leads to his destruction
WH
“I don’t care for striking..i have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction” HC reflects that his violent and destructive revenge has actually not led to satisfaction but rather an emptiness
“Drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss” HC plea to C ghost to continue their haunting and destructive love
Comparison for constant love
Constant love is apparent in both, but from different angles eg idealized vs destructive
S116
Love is pure, spiritual and resilient endures any test “loves not times fool” unaffected by time
Consequence of this eternal love is noble & uplifting, the expression is philosophical & abstract
WH
Expression: emotional, dramatic Consequences are tragic & destructive
“If all else perished, and he remained, i should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger” unchanging all consuming love, the constancy of their love causes an identity fusion, however it is unstable and unhealthy.
3 WH quotes for love & passion
- “If all else perished, and he remained, i should still continue to be”
- “He couldn’t love as much in 80 years as i could in a day
- “He’s always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than i am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being”
4 WH Quotes for Loss
1.” I have not broken your heart- you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine”
2. “You loved me- then what right had you to leave me?”
3. “Do you reflect that all those words will be branded in my memory, and eating deeper eternally after you have left me?” - Cathy’s selfishness
4. “Kept her gaze fixed on him as if she feared he would vanish were she to remove it”
1 WH Quote for Revenge
- “Treachery & violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies”
2 WH quotes for violence
- “You’ve made me afraid and ashamed of you”
- “I’ll try to break their hearts by breaking my own. That will be a prompt way of finishing all, when i am pushed to extremity!”
3 quotes for social barriers
- “He will be rich, and i shall like to be the greatest woman of the neighbourhood”
- “You love Mr. Edgar because…he loves you”
- “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how i love him”
