wuthering heights

• WH setting

  "gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way as if craving alms of the sun"
• TCG setting

  "we should have thought ourselves in heaven" -heathcliff
• association of characters with TCG

  "vacant blue eyes" -lockwood
• significance of ending - peace through pathetic fallacy, personiphication


  "listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass"
• cathy is frustrated with everyone after heathcliff leaves

  "it was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn"
• weather at TCG compared to WH


  snow and ice seem to melt more slowly at WH than TG. the mist forms a beautiful skirt at TG. at WH mist shrouds it in mystery
• symbolism of the gate at the entrance of WH (contrast to beginning)


  "i had neither to climb the gate, nor to knock - it yielded to my hand" -lockwood
• symbolism of windows at WH

  Cathy's ghost trying to break through Lockwood's window
• symbolism of windows at TCG

  heathcliff and Cathy witness the luxurious world of TCG whilst observing outside a window in the dark and cold
• symbolism of windows with two people

  hareton and catherine are reading together in the window - (harmony, balance and resolvement)
• Lockwood method of narration

  "i have gained the reputation of deliberate heartlessness"
• description of heathcliff

  "It's as dark almost as if it came from the devil" - nellie (creates gothic element)
• all consuming love


  "he is more myself than I am" - cathy
• jealous love 


  "I compliment your taste: and that is the slavering, shivering thing you preferred to me!" - cathy
• jealous love


  "I would not strike him with my fist but I would kick him with my foot and experience considerable satisfaction" - heathcliff talking about edgar
• destructive/ abusive love

  "I gave him my heart and he took it and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me" -isabella
• destructive/ abusive love


  "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" -heathcliff
• heathcliff to Nellie showing his narcissistic behaviour 


  "For every thought she spends on Linton, she spends a thousand on me."
• isabella talking to nellie about heathcliff


  "he is not a human being"
• cathy in childhood

  "wild hatless little savage jumping into the house and rushing to squeeze us all breathless"
• cathy deciding to marry edgar

  "it would degrade me to marry heathcliff"
• cathy on her deathbed

  "I have not broken your heart - you have broken it; and in breaking it, you have broken mine"
• heathcliff's ghost walking on the moors meaning he is able to find a peaceful afterlife with cathy


  "he walks.... on the moor"
• ending in a possibility where cathy and heathcliff are united in the afterlife


  "unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth"
• nelly talking about cathy - shows she is bias

  "I own I did not like her"
• represents the peace that heathcliff finds when he has died as he says he no longer cares for violence

  "i don't care for striking, i can't take the trouble to raise my hand"
• heathcliff pleading cathy to haunt him

  "you said I killed you, haunt me then!"
• ghosts roaming the moors. lockwood finds it hard to imagine:

  "unquiet slumbers for sleepers in that quiet earth"
• pathetic fallacy - the storm after heathcliff leaves

  "around midnight, while we sat up, the storm came rattling over the heights in full fury"