Heathcliff and Catherine

• quotes

  • ‘Shows her humour by grinning and spitting on the stupid little thing.’
  • ‘Miss Cathy and he were now very thick but Hindley hated him.’
  • ‘It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff.’
  • ‘He’s more myself than I am.’
  • ‘Don’t imagine he conceals depth of benevolence and affection beneath a stern exterior.’
  • ‘You said I killed you, haunt me then.’
• point

  • most intense and tumultuous portrayals of love
  • marked by love, passion and ultimately tragedy
  • emotions towards eachother are bipolar
• explain


  • dislikes Heathcliff but looks past his otherness, Hindley cant, sculpts her later decisions
  • chooses marriage over love for stability
  • Heathcliff only changed externally and Catherine warns Isabella
  • Heathcliff cant live without her in his life
• context

  • class divisions
  • women confined to domestic sphere
  • married women couldnt own property
• reader

  • contemporary reader agrees Catherine was wild and had temper with Heathcliff and better off with Edgar
  • modern reader agree she was herself with Heathcliff