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‘Wuthering Heights’ Key Quotations
Volume I
1
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The dream and Catherine’s ghost:
- “I began to dream … [the church] lies in a hollow, between two hills - an elevated hollow”
- “each discussing a … sin” - (religion focusses on don’t’s rather than do’s)
- “every man’s hand was against his neighbour” - (religion brings out the worst in people)
- “intense horror of nightmare” “the blood ran down and soaked the bed”
- “not expecting an answer” - (Heathcliff talks to ghosts as he doesn't know Lockwood is there)
- “little fiend … wicked little soul”
- “uncontrollable passion of tears” - (emotion for Catherine’s ghost)
- “idle tricks” - (Heathcliff disregards education)
3
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Earnshaw dies and Hindley takes control of the house
- “wild and stormy” “roared in the chimney” - (disruption of the hearth - family unit)
- “Hindley became tyrannical”
- “I hope he will not die before I do” - (HC wants revenge on Hindley)
5
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Heathcliff returns after 3 years once everyone lives at Thrushcross Grange
- “fingers on the latch as if intending to open for himself” - (transgression across boundaries)
- “eyes deep set and singular” - (like the WH windows, defensive/siege)
- “reformed … quite a Christian” - (religion breeds hate)
- “degradation of an alliance with a nameless man” - (head and heart Realist battle)
- “impossible for you to be my friend and his” - (Catherine wants to be unconventional)
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Heathcliff marries Isabella and takes her to WH - 1st person letter - narrow bias view of HC
“Heathcliff held both bridles” - (full control)
“my heart returned to Thrushcross Grange” - (exact pair to Catherine who returned to WH)
“is Mr
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Heathcliff visits Catherine before she dies

- “did not seek to hide his despair” - (Victorians not supposed to show emotion - Brontë’s message is that
emotion shouldn’t be suppressed - Romantic idea)

- “tired of being enclosed here” - (imprisoned by gender/marriage/social convention)
- “I love my murderer - but yours! How can I?” - (2 sides to Catherine, doppelgänger - hates the
conventional side, loves the freely expressive side)

- “the expression of a smile” - (happy to be free and go to her non conventional heaven)
- “no angel in Heaven could be more beautiful” - (Nelly is wrong, she didn’t go to her Heaven, unreliable
religious sway on narration)
“you have a heart and nerves” - (concedes HC is human)
“he held a silent combat with his inward agony”
“haunt me, then!” - (Heathcliff summons spirits, supernatural image)
“peat mould almost buries it” - (her grave is reclaimed by the moors)
10
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Cathy & Linton meet & we learn about the development of the second generation
- “urged her into an apt scholar” - (importance of education in the next generation)
- “the gates were generally locked” - (difficult to escape your class imprisonment)
- “my cousin is a gentleman’s son” - (marx, obsessed with class much like Lockwood)
- “wealthy soil” - (despite HC corrupting Hareton, there is potential for him to flourish still)
- “a cruel hard landlord” - (capitalists treat workers poorly for higher profits)
- “a pale delicate effeminate boy” - (Linton is the product of an unnatural marriage)
- “my property” “it” - (doesn’t want Linton but he’s his blood so puts him over Hareton)
- “she bounded” - (freedom and energy on the moors like her mother)
- “one is gold put to the use of paving stones, and the other is tin polished to ape a service of silver” (social background allows you access to ‘gold’ but what you do may be very little, lacking social
background you can only achieve ‘silver’ but you may be performing far above the ‘gold’ - social class

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means a lot, Brontë wanted classes to work together and understand each other rather than see this stark
contrast)
- “new view of human nature - excluded from all her studies” - (education and experience are needed
together in order to create a good person, not either one alone)
- “it was just what he intended” - (Heathcliff wrote the letters from Linton to Cathy as part of his plot)
- “I would lend him books” - (uses education to bridge the class gap, Cathy helps to educate Micael the
horse keeper)
- “awake and wild” “ecstasy of peace” - (contrast of Cathy and Linton)
- “considered myself doing a duty” - (loving out of duty not heart like her father)
- “treating a dying child as tyrannically and wickedly as I learnt” - (manipulative HC)
12
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Heathcliff” - (the lawyer sold his soul to the devil so HC gets his way with
taking the Grange)
- “lonely like the devil” - (Cathy uses simile, he isn’t actually the devil like many say)
- “I got the sexton … to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it” - (ghoulish, necrophilic)
- “Cathy was there, not under me, but on the earth” - (together in death as ghosts)
13
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We go a year on and Lockwood comes back, he is told the past events by Nelly including HC’s death
- “they grey church looked greyer, and the lonely churchyard lonelier” - (downfall of organised religion,
Joseph's loss of control)
- “sun behind … moon in front … one fading and the other brightening” - (transitional period)
- “fragrance of stocks and wall flowers … homely fruit trees” - (cultivated and not wild or hostile)
- “she bent to superintend his studies” - (takes on the role of a teacher and ignores class difference to do
so - brings about class coherence)
- “mucky pride” - (education won’t be accepted if its given in a condescending/haughty way)
- “the enemies were, thenceforth, sworn allies” - (battle language, much like WH description,”treaty” - WH
can be peaceful too)
- (Jospeh moved to the kitchen from the hearth, then to the garret, now his garden is being destroyed religion is being pushed out along with the old ways, cultivation > wild)
- “I’m going to set ‘em again” - (compromise between new and old ways to find understanding)
- “his brightening mind brightened his features” - (education is key and leads to improved lives)
- “Nelly there is a strange change approaching” - (he knew times were changing, educated Linton, but
doesn't want to move on so lets himself get left behind too)
- “April … the weather sweet and warm” - (fertility and new beginnings)
- “bloodless hue, and his teeth visible” - (thirst for revenge is gone, no longer sucks life from others like a
vampire)
- “deep black eyes” “ghastly paleness”
- “I repent of nothing” - (doesn’t need to as he’s not going to a traditional “my” heaven)
- “he seemed to smile” - (liminal state - like Catherine in death)
- “no blood trickled from the broken skin” “[his eyes] seemed to sneer … sharp, white teeth sneered too!”
- (vampiric and beastly/supernatural)
- “I saw nothing but neither the sheep nor he would go on” - (HC and Catherine haunting)
- “decay had made progress” - (traditional beliefs breaking down with religion)
- “Together they would brave Satan” - (united front, class coherence)



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