Blog #2 : Wuthering Heights
Choose an important quotation from Wuthering Heights. What is significant about this particular quotation? Note: Once one is posted, you have to post a different one. I will print all of these for our discussion on Friday, so make sure you post by Friday, 8AM.
"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same" (70). The significance of Catherine saying this about Heathcliff is that she realizes that they are soul mates, but instead of being with him, she marries Edgar. Was she right to pick Edgar over Heathcliff?
ReplyDelete"Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" (144). This scene is representative of the final downfall of Heathcliff because it marks his realization of life without Catherine. Does Catherine hear Heathcliff's lamentations beyond the grave sparking her spiritual return when Lockwood visits?
ReplyDelete"I've a pleasure in him. He has satisfied my expectations. If he were born a fool I should not enjoy it half so much. But he's no fool; and I can sympathise with all his feelings, having felt them myself" (189). In this quote Heathcliff is showing what seems to be care for his son, Linton. Can Heathcliff ever really feel anything but hatred towards Linton?
ReplyDelete"I saw the quarrel had merely effected closer intimacy--had broken the outworks of youthful timidity, and enabled them to forsake the disguise of friendship, and confess themselves lovers" (63). We learned that a theme of the Romantic Gothic novel is powerful passion, whether in love or in anger. Do you think it is true that the couples that fight a lot have a stronger relationship?
ReplyDelete"'I'm come home: I'd lost my way on the moor!' As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window" (20). When many adults are distressed, they return to places that bring them back to their childhood. What is the significance of Catherine's ghost returning to Wuthering Heights as a child?
ReplyDelete" if you wash your face, and brush your hair, it will be alright : but you are so dirty" (46). When Cathy returns form the Lintons we learn that she not only has changed on the surface but on how she expects a gentleman to be. Do you believe this started Heathcliffs fall to madness or it is a simple step along the way?
ReplyDelete"I told [Heathcliff] the cause of my staying up late - that he had the key of our room. The adjective our gave mortal offence. He swore it was not, nor ever should be mine" (Isabella speaking, 125). To Heathcliff, Isabella is nothing more than a means to an end and he uses her to stamp out the Linton name. Do you believe Isabella has the right to feel pity for herself after abandoning Edgar to elope with Heathcliff?
ReplyDelete"...and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth"(293). Death is a symbol of peace for those that have passed. Cathy however, is not able to remain at rest. Do you think the reason that Cathy was not able to "rest in peace" (pardon the expression) was because Heathcliff wanted her to haunt him or is their another reason why Cathy can not have a "quiet slumber?"
ReplyDelete"...and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth"(293). Death is a symbol of peace for those that have passed. Cathy however, is not able to remain at rest. Do you think the reason that Cathy was not able to "rest in peace" (pardon the expression) was because Heathcliff wanted her to haunt him or is their another reason why Cathy can not have a "quiet slumber?"
ReplyDelete"I wish I had light hair and fair skin, and was dressed, and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as he will be!" (56). How does Heathcliff's views as a young boy contrast with his current hardened/depressing outlook on life as an adult?
ReplyDelete"It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how much I love him: and that not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am."(106)Just two years after Edgar and Catherine wed, Heathcliff returned a rich, eligible man. Notice the quote said I cannot marry him now. If Catherine would have waited, do you think the timing, in this story, could have made much of a difference?
ReplyDelete"I like her too well, my dear Heathcliff, to let you absolutely seize and devour her up" (92). Everyone around Hethcliff knows of his mood swings going from a passionate love for Catherine to a deep rooted hate towards anyone who has wronged him. However, whenever they see a new and innocent person being drug into the madness of Heathcliff they never truly try to stop it. They might issue a warning of some sort but never take action to stop it. Do you think this is because they want everyone else to have to deal with Heathcliff or do you think it is just because they are use to the consequences that are associated with being around Heathcliff?
ReplyDelete"On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down and extinguishing the light..."(17) Do you think that these dogs represent what Heathcliff has become?
ReplyDelete"The Snow began to drive" this occurs has Mr. Lookwood arrives to Wuthering Heights for his second visit. Do you believe that the change in weather as he comes to Wuthering Heights is a form of forshadowment. If so, how?
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