Wuthering Heights Flashcards

(26 cards)

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How does Cathy describe her connection to Heathcliff?

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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same

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How does Lockwood describe his reaction to Cathy’s ghoust

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Terror made me cruel

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How does Cathy describe her love for Linton?

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My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it

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Description of the placing of Wuthering Heights

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Completely removed from the stir of society

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Description of the size and people reaction to it in Wuthering Heights

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So large the inmates have plenty of space

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Description of the weather in the moors

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On the bleak hill the earth was hard with black frost

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A quote about the houses isolation

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A perfect misanthropists heaven

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A description of the outside of the house

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A grotesque carving lavished over the front

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A quote about supernatural beings in Wuthering Heights

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Swarming with ghosts and goblins

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A quote about Heathcliffs abuse towards Isabella

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Turn the black eyes blue everyday or two they detestable resemble Linton’s

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A quote about Heathcliff replacing Mr Earnshaws children

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A usurper

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A quote that shows Heathcliff’s meaningless cruelty

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The more the worms writhe the more I yearn to crush out their entrails

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What does Heathcliff say when he gives up trying to torture the families?

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I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction and I am too idle to destroy for nothing

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A quote about Heathcliff having no home

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An unreclaimed creature

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A quote about Heathcliff’s dark side

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A half civilised ferocity

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A quote that dehumanises Heathcliff and represents him as having no family ties

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Not a soul knew to whom it belonged to

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Lockwood’s first impression of Heathcliff

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The solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with

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A quote about Heathcliff looking suspicious

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I beheld his black eyes drawn so suspiciously under their brows

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How does Cathy describe her love for Heathcliff?

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My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath

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A quote about Hareton’s abuse of the puppies

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Who was handing a litter of puppies from a chair back in the doorway

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What does Lockwood do to Catherine’s ghost

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I pulled its wrists on the broken pane

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A description of Isabella after escaping withering heights

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A deep cut under one ear which only the cold prevented from bleeding

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A description of Isabella’s face after her escape

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A white face scratched and bruised

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What does Hindley wish for Heathcliff

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The single pleasure I can imagine is to die or to see him dead

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What does Hindley want to do to Heathcliff before he dies
If God would give me strength to strangle him in my last agony I'd go to hell with joy
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What does Isabella think when she sees Hindley's gun
How powerful I should be possessing such an instrument