Wuthering Heights Quotes

• 'Dirty, ragged, black-haired child'
• 'Sullen patient child; hardenerd, perhaps, to ill-treatment'
• 'God will not have the satisfaction I shall'
• 'devil daddy'
• 'so deeply buried, who never open their windows boldly, but lurk linting under them, like devil spies'
• 'he had grown a tall, athletic, well formed man'
• 'exterior was altered, his mind was unchangeable and unchanged'
• 'I shall not stand to be laughed at, I shall not bear it!'
• 'Nelly make me decent im going to be good'
• 'must e'en take it as if its a gifl from god... it's as dark almost as if it came from the devil;
• 'imp of satan'
• ''wish that i had the hanging of every being belonging to her, except one'
• 'he foamed like a dog, and gathered her into him with greedy jelousy, i did not feel as ig i were in the company of a creature of my own species'
• 'cukoos' history - chucks eggs out of the nest to use nest for hiself. 
• 'Is Mr. Heathcliff a man? If so, is he mad? And if not, is he the devil?'
• 'by the excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt throns all stretching their limbs one way' Tree Judan hung his self, Thorns of christ.
• 'i cannot live without my soul

• 'it would degrade me to marry Heathcliff'
• 'I am heathcliff'
• 'too mischievious and wayward'
• 'Ive no more business to marry Linton that i have to be in heaven'
• 'She was never so happy so happy as when we were all scolding her'
• 'Twenty years i've been waiting for twenty years!'
• 'If you have not the courage to attack him, make an apology, or allow youself to be beaten'
• 'heaven did not seem to be home'
• 'no person in the world, ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did'
• 'i love my murderer'
• 'hardly six years old... she chose a whip'
• as a fierce pitiless wolfish man ... and he'd crush you like a sparrow"

• introduces themes of violation, confusion
• Blundering, unrelaible agen of information
• mistakes assumes wuthering heights who is who
• 'out of place'
• shink icily into himself like a snail'
• 'i lingered round them, under the benign sky'

Wuthering Heights:-

• Wuthering Heights is introduced into the novel in a storm -pathetic fallacy gives an insight of Wuthering heights manor and the darkness and storminess it brings
•  The wildness, darkness and mystery surrounding Wuthering heights is symbolic of it’s inhabitants. 
• The name of the manor is actually “descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed to stormy weather”

Trushcross Grange

• 'ah! it was beautiful — a splendid place carpeted with crimson'
• 'pure white' 
• 'bordered by gold'
•  'glass-drops hanging in silver chains' 
• Thrushcross Grange their setting of a protected environment meant the inhabitants were unfamiliar of the outside world and hard work.

• ' furniture consisted of a chair, a clothes press, and a large oak case' 
• 'wooden panels' 
• resembles coffin
• 'I slid back the panelled sides, got in with my light, pulled them together again, and felt secure against the vigilance of Heathcliff, and every one else'
• 'Catherine Earnshaw . . . Catherine Heathcliff . . . Catherine Linton. . . . a glare of white letters started from the dark, as vivid as spectres—the air swarmed with Catherines. . . .'

• 'The angels were so angry they flung me out into the middle of the heath'
• 'Heathcliff knows of his coming death and his ever growing closeness to being in his desired heaven with Cathy'
• my fingers closed on the fingers of a little, ice-cold hand. The intense horror of nightmare came over me: I tried to draw back my arm, but the hand clung to it, and a most melancholy voice sobbed, "Let me in – let me in!" (3.45)
•  she wanted to get another proof that the place was haunted, at my expense. Well, it is – swarming with ghosts and goblins!
• I was superstitious about dreams then, and am still; and Catherine had an unusual gloom in her aspect
•  We've braved its ghosts often together, and dared each other to stand among the graves and ask them to come.
• Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you – haunt me, then
• I have a strong faith in ghosts: I have a conviction that they can, and do, exist among us! 

• "But where did he come from, the little dark thing, harboured by a good man to his bane?" muttered Superstition, as I dozed into unconsciousness.
• But the country folks, if you ask them, would swear on the Bible that he walks: there are those who speak to having met him near the church, and on the moor, and even within this house

• But the country folks, if you ask them, would swear on the Bible that he walks: there are those who speak to having met him near the church, and on the moor, and even within this house
• her Representation of story
• trusted by members of both houses - good go to for story
• participates in heathcliffs humiliations
• relies on several other narrators to peice together story

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