Catherine Earnshaw Quotes

3. Heathcliff: This abusive and cruel character was born as an orphan. After Catherine decides to marry Earnshaw, their relationship is damaged and he acts only in revenge

Catherine Earnshaw: a spoiled, selfish child that gains the love of both Heathcliff and Edgar.

Edgar Linton: Catherine’s Husband and Heathcliff’s rival

Cathy Linton: daughter of Catherine and Edgar; resembles her mother’s strengths and weaknesses

Linton Heathcliff: son of Heathcliff and Isabella; physically and emotionally weak; Heathcliff takes advantage of him; marries Cathy

Ellen (Nelly) Dean: the biased narrator of the majority of the story; Catherine’s servant

Lockwood: Heathcliff’s tenant; an outsider that gains knowledge and leverage of the story

4. Mr. Earnshaw:

Catherine and Hindley’s father who takes Heathcliff in
Mrs.

Earnshaw: Catherine’s mother who favors Hindley to Heathcliff

Hindley Earnshaw: Catherine’s brother who bullies Heathcliff; alcoholic

Frances Earnshaw: Hindley’s wife who dies after Hareton is born

Mr. and Mrs. Edgar: Linton’s parents who lift Catherine into upper society and die from contracting Catherine’s sickness

Isabella: Edgar’s sister who marries Heathcliff and experiences his cruelty

Zillah: Heathcliff’s housekeeper who saves Lockwood from the dogs

5. Wuthering Heights (home of the Earnshaws; Heathcliff later forces Cathy to become a servant there; a gloomy, unwelcoming farmhouse that is on top of Yorkshire moors).

Thrushcross Grange (the home of the Linton’s; Heathcliff later rents it out to Lockwood; a refined, calm and protected residence located in the valley closer to civilization)

6. Chronologically:

Mr. Earnshaw brings Heathcliff to live at Wuthering Heights (96)

Catherine becomes engaged to Edgar and Heathcliff overhears her conversation, which causes him to leave Wuthering Heights. (48)

Heathcliff arrives at Thrushcross Grange a new man (60)

Heathcliff and Isabella get married; Catherine gets sick, gives birth to Cathy and dies (79)

Cathy meets Hareton and visits Wuthering Heights for the first time

(82)
Heathcliff imprisons Cathy and forces her to marry Linton (155)
Lockwood rents the Grange from Heathcliff and begins his tenancy. In a winter storm, Lockwood takes ill and begins conversing with Nelly Dean, who narrates the story (40)
Catherine and Hareton fall in love and Heathcliff dies (180)

7. “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”

“Terror made me cruel .

. .”

“I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me. People feel with their hearts, Ellen, and since he has destroyed mine, I have not power to feel for him.

“If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.”

“You teach me now how cruel you've been - cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry; and wring out my kisses and tears: they'll blight you - they'll damn you. You loved me - what right had you to leave me? What right - answer me - for the poor fancy you felt for Linton? Because misery, and degradation, and death, and nothing that God or Satan could inflict would have parted us, you, of your own will did it. I have no broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine. So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want to live? What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! would you like to lie with your soul in the grave?”

“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the

thorn.”

8. Due to the framing incorporated into the narrative structure, Lockwood opens and closes the book. Nelly, Catherine’s servant, tells the main portion of the story by relaying the information that she has gathered in the past to Lockwood. When Nelly cannot narrate the story because she was not present for that portion of time, she uses others eye-witness perspectives or letters in order to share the transpiring events with Lockwood that she did not witness herself. Both Lockwood and Nelly have their own interests and And biases, which contribute to the complexities of the novel and the possible cynical reading of it.

9. Emily Brontё wrote this novel to explain the complexities and corrupt nature of humankind. Due to the fact that Emily wrote this book in the Victorian era, her characters that possessed immoral qualities, such as Heathcliff, frightened and shocked the people of this time. Her writing attempted to grasp the unsavory aspects of human life, and in turn displeased many of her time. Brontё accurately demonstrates society at the time, allowing the contemporary audience to understand class, social rank, and social norms of the Victorian Era. Brontё explores the role of men and women in this society by displaying characters (that are very much human) that fall into the roles of that time. Brontё explores the juxtaposition of good and evil, presenting them through the more tangible forms of love and hate. This work displays a variety of topics, everything from obsession to the nature of love to rebellion to class immobility. Due to its multifariousness and extensiveness, Brontё accomplishes describing both social context of the time and the duplicity of human nature that occurs not only in the Victorian era, but also throughout all time.

10.
Symbols:
Ghosts: Although the ghosts throughout this novel remain particularly ambiguous, their presence throughout this novel demonstrates the embodiment of the past within the future, which emphasizes the repetition and parallels throughout the generations.
Moors: symbolize the wildness and hostility of both nature and love.
Wuthering Heights: symbolizes its strong, wild and passionate inhabitants
Thrushcross Grange: symbolizes the civility and tranquility of its inhabitants
Motifs:
Repetition: the parallels between the two generations is made apparent through the repetition of names ie- Catherine and her daughter
Doubles and Opposites: The comparison of Catherine to Heathcliff is blatant, whereas his similarities to Edgar are imperceptible
Obsession: Heathcliff’s infatuation with Catherine, power, and wealth are demonstrated throughout the novel

11. Brontё uses the prose style to contribute to the overall themes of nature, love, and the two’s harmony. She uses the contrast of hope with various Gothic elements to support the underlying theme of the good v. evil. The constant interactions between characters that embody either good or evil, contributes to this. For example, Brontё uses imagery and allusions to highlight Catherine and Heathcliff’s dissimilarities. Although she contrasts the two characters, she emphasizes their likeness: when Catherine states, “He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same,” Brontё explains that although good and evil represent two extremes, humanity possesses both virtuous and unsavory qualities. Through this work, Brontё demonstrates the universality of human existence.

12. One critical problem in this text was Heathcliff's obsessions. Whatever their derivatives, heathcliff's main purpose throughout this novel seem to be the destruction of others. Heathcliff became more and more obsessed with controlling and manipulating others lives. his failed love with Catherine spurred his hatred for Edgar; Hinley's constant bullying created for Heaton; and his hatred for Edgar transferred to his hatred for Linton and Cathy, which reminded him of his failed love. Heathcliff's obsession with destroying the lives of Linton, Kathy, Edgar, Heaton, and Hinley worst stemmed from his insecurities, failed aspirations, and childhood mistreatment. The corruption of heathcliff's ideals demonstrates the epitome and foundations of evil. By looking at heathcliff's life, one can discern that both external and internal experiences and conflicts served as a catalyst for his actions. His obsessive nature, whose its derivative is unknown or created from a variety of things, enhances Brontё’s argument that evil can be generated in any human being with the right conditions.