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Description of Wuthering Heights |
Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr Heathcliff's dwelling. 'wuthering' being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather |
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Lockwood's encounter with the ghost at the window pane |
Terror made me cruel, and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on the broken window pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bed clothes |
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decription of Heathcliff's skin colour |
It's as dark almost as if it came from the devil |
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Heathclliff and Cathy's promise to eachother growing up |
They both promised fair to grow up as rude as savages |
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Heathcliff welcoming Cathy like the other servants |
You may come and wish Miss Catherine welcome, like the other servants |
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Heathcliff's determination to pay Hindley back |
I'm trying to settle how i'll pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I have to wait. |
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Heathcliff explaining how he will never exchange his condition for Edgar's |
'I'll not exchange, for a thousand lives, my condition here for Edgar Linton's at Thrushcross Grange-not if I might have the privilege of flinging Joseph off the highest gable and painting the house front with Hindley's blood' |
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Cathy: 'I shall like to be the ____ woman in the ______' |
greatest, neighbourhood |
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Cathy talking about marrying Edgar vs. marrying Heathcliff |
I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff, now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Linton's is a different as a moonbeam from lightning or frost from fire. |
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Nelly talking about Edgar and Cathy's happiness |
they were really in possession of a deep and growing happiness. it ended |
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the gunpowder lay as ___ as ____, because no fire came near to ____ it |
harmless,sand,explode |
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he has an _____ soul |
honourable |
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Heathcliff on how he would to treat isabella |
If I lived alone with that mawkish, waxen face; the most ordinary would be painting on its white the colours of the rainbow, and turning the blue eyes black. |
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Cathy on how she wishes to be a girl again |
I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and free |
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the brightening of Haretons mind |
His honest, warm and intelligent nature shook of rapidly the clouds of ignorance and degradation in which it had been bred and Catherine's sincere commendations acted as a spur to his industry. His brightening mind brightened his features and added spirit and nobility in their aspect |
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Heathcliff on nearly attaining his heaven |
I have nearly attained my heaven and that of others is altogether unvalued and uncoveted by me! |
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the ambiguity surrounding Heathcliff's death |
Kenneth was perplexed to pronounce of what disorder the master died |
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Heathcliff talking to Linton about how he now owns him |
Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree wont grow as crooked as another with the same wind to twist it! |
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Nelly telling Lockwood when hareton and Catherine jr will get married and where they will live |
are they going to the grange then? 'yes' answered Mrs Dean, 'as soon as they are married; and that will be on New Years day' |
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Lockwood reflecting on how peaceful the three graves seem. |
I lingered round them, under the benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath, and hare bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers of the sleepers in that quiet earth. |
