Wuthering heights quotes and critics

• “I’ll try to break their hearts, by breaking my own” Cathy
• “My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods- time will change it” cathy
• “I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul” Heathcliff
• “He’s more myself than I am“ Cathy
• “I gave him my heart, and he took it and pinched it to death and flung it back to me“ Isabella
• “My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath“ Cathy
• “In every cloud, every tree… I am surrounded with her image” Heathcliff
• “If Heathcliff and I married we should be beggars” cathy
• “I have no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven” cathy
• “Dark-skinned gypsy”
• “I am Heathcliff“
• “Edgar is as different as a moonbeam from lightening, or frost from fire” Cathy
• “He’s a fierce pitiless, wolffish man”
• “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff”
• “Never regained consciousness to miss Heathcliff or know Edgar”
• Linton- “a pale delicate effeminate boy”
• “You said I killed you- haunt me then!” Heathcliff
• “A perfect misanthropists heaven.” Lockwood about WH
• “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same” Cathy
• “I have not broken your heart- you have broken it and in breaking it, you have broken mine“ Heathcliff
• “you loved me- then what right had you to leave me” Heathcliff
• “be with me always- take any form- drive me mad!” Heathcliff
• “I won’t rest til you are with me, I never will” Heathcliff
• “He possessed the power to depart as much as cat possesses the power to leave a mouse half killed” about Edgar
• “He wishes to provoke Edgar to desperation: he says he has married me on purpose to obtain power over him” Isabella
• “She‘s her brother’s heir, is she not?”
• “He couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day”
• “Both their minds tending to the same point” Catherine and hareton
• “Catherine earnshaw, here and there varied to Catherine Heathcliff, and then again to Catherine Linton”
• “May she wake in torment”
• “He’ll crush you like a sparrows egg” Cathy to Isabella
• “catherine earnshaw may you not rest, as long as I am living”
• Motif of doors and windows symbolises new opportunities
• Freud: dreams represent unconscious conflicts. Reflect desires repressed by conscious brain
• Byronic hero: rebel against conventional morality. Unruly, melancholy and haunted by secret guilt
• Simone de Beauvoir: ‘to love is to relinquish everything for the benefit of a master’
• J.S Mills: marriage is slavery
• “O I am wretched and I have been a fool” Isabella end of letter
• Eagleton: choosing Edgar was a decision of bad faith
• Gilbert and Gubar: writing of Catherine on the windowsill in its various forms illustrates that women lose their sense of identity under the patriarchy