Wuthering heights quotes

Wuthering Heights is removed from society

“so completely removed from the stir of society”

Chapter 1 isolation of WH

“Guests are exceedingly rare in this house that I and my dogs, I am willing to own, hardly know how to receive them.”

Lockwood’s lack of understanding - chapter 2

“Unluckily, it was a heap of dead rabbits.”

Heathcliff lives in ‘exile’

‘Many could not imagine the existence of happiness in a life of such complete exile from the world as you spend’

Heathcliff yearning for Cathy’s ghost

“‘Cathy, do come. Oh do - once more! Oh my heart’s darling!’”

Cathy’s empowered and more masculine side in chapter 1

“she chose a whip.’

Heathcliff’s dehumanisation as soon as he arrived at WH

‘though it’s as dark almost as if it came from the devil’

Repetition of ‘it’

‘Gipsy brat’

‘Imp of satan’

Brontë challenges conventional religion in chapter 5

‘No parson in the world ever pictured heaven so beautifully as they did, in their innocent talks’

Innocence of Heathcliff and Cathy’s childhood in chapter 6

‘One of their chief amusements to run away to the moors in the morning and remain there all day,’

Heathcliff’s disapproval of the Linton’s lifestyle in chapter 6

‘I’d not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here, for Edgar Linton’s at Thrushcross Grange’

Contrasting description of TG in comparison to WH

‘Splendid place carpeted with crimson’

‘Pure white ceiling bordered by gold’

Cathy being pulled back by patriarchy

‘The devil seized her ankle’

Heathcliff’s otherness

‘Unfit for a decent house’

Heathcliff’s as being wild and unruly

‘It’s like a colt’s mane over his eyes!’

Cathy’s gentrification in chapter 7

‘Displaying fingers wonderfully whitened with doing nothing and staying indoors’

Cathy’s gentrification in chapter 8

‘She was the queen of the countryside’

The breakdown of Cathy’s cultivation in Chapter 8

‘You lying creature’

Class divide between Cathy and Heathcliff in Chapter 9

‘It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff’

Cathy and Heathcliff’s eternal love

‘My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath’

Cathy and Edgar are opposites

‘Linton’s as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.’

Heathcliff being reintroduced as a Byronic hero

‘At tall man dressed in dark clothes, with dark face and hair’

Heathcliff has undergone a social shift

‘No marks of former degradation

Contrast between Heathcliff and Edgar

‘Tall, athletic, well-formed man’ … ‘my master seemed quite slender and youth-like.’

Cathy before being gentrified

‘A wild hatless little savage jumping into the house’

Cathy’s symbol of class in chapter 7

‘Grand plaid silk frock, white trousers