Wuthering Heights Quotes
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- Wuthering Heights Quotes
- Degraded state and willingness to be put right
- Heathcliff referred to as "it"
- degrading and inhumane tone created towards Heathcliff created through Brontes use of diction
- “Nelly, make me
decent, I’m going to be good.”
- "he wanted to be presentable"
- not presentable before - link to context and the importance of your outer appearance - a reflection of wealth and class/status
- "he wanted to be presentable"
- Heathcliff referred to as "it"
- Heathcliffs revenge by Hareton's degradation
- “I can sympathise with all his feelings, having felt
them myself – I know what he suffers now...”
- revenge - like in Gatsby (Wilson to Gatsby)
- good things lost amongst a wilderness of weeds
- Metaphoric and naturalistic imagery could suggest the growth of the pain
- “I can sympathise with all his feelings, having felt
them myself – I know what he suffers now...”
- Heathcliff Quotes
- "dark gypsy"
- Dark imagery related to that of the devil - also connoted negative imagery
- Emphasised "lonely like the devil" and "selfish, unchristian"
- Dark imagery related to that of the devil - also connoted negative imagery
- "gnashed" "savage beast" "foamed like a mad dog"
- Animalistic imagery emphasises how much of an outcast Heathcliff is presented to be by Bronte
- Dogs used for work and not kept as pets- showing how Heathcliff is not really part of the family as a pet would be now in the 21st century
- Black ram in Othello
- Animalistic imagery emphasises how much of an outcast Heathcliff is presented to be by Bronte
- A bird of bad omen
- "omen" suggests fate and not religion - Darwinism - seen as supernatural - gothic genre
- "dark gypsy"
- Love for Catherine
- "immortal love"
- Heathcliffs despertion to see cathy after shes dead
- "he couldnt love as much in eighty years, as i could in a day"
- time mentioned - idea of love affecting time -- her love with Linton for a whole lifetime would be as much as her love heathcliff would give her in a day
- "i cannt live without my life, i cannot live without my soul"
- repetition of "i cannot" emphasises the lifelessnes without love
- "i wont rest until you are with me.. i never will"
- Emphasis on restlessnss and the supernatural tone of the gothic novel - deep love - wanting to do the impossible
- "i wont rest until you are with me.. i never will"
- repetition of "i cannot" emphasises the lifelessnes without love
- "immortal love"
- Degraded state and willingness to be put right
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