Themes in Wuthering Heights
Mindmap of some of the key themes in Wuthering Heights with quotations to support themes/ key points.
- Created by: Reanne
- Created on: 24-02-13 18:20
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- Themes in Wuthering Heights
- LOVE
- "I am Heathcliff"
- "My love for Edgar is like the foliage in the woods"
- NATURE
- Heathcliff's appearance draws endless comparisons to nature. It is "bleak, hilly, coal country" to Linton's "fertile valley"
- To Catherine and Heathcliff, the moors exist as a supernatural, liberating, and boundaryless region
- Catherine justifies her marriage to Edgar Linton using comparisons to the natural world
- NATURE
- SOCIETY + CLASS
- "it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff"
- "wild, hatless little savage"
- Thrushcross Grange = Civilised society
- Wuthering Heights = WIld (opposite to Thrushcross Grange)
- NATURE
- Heathcliff's appearance draws endless comparisons to nature. It is "bleak, hilly, coal country" to Linton's "fertile valley"
- To Catherine and Heathcliff, the moors exist as a supernatural, liberating, and boundaryless region
- NATURE
- Wuthering Heights = WIld (opposite to Thrushcross Grange)
- THE SUPERNATURAL
- "Observed by me, when awake but forgotten"
- "Terror made me cruel"
- "ice cold hand"
- FAMILY
- "i began to feel unmistakably out of place in that pleasant family circle"
- LOVE
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