Describe Cathy’s first encounter with Wuthering Heights and Hareton. “Hareton grew black as a thunder-cloud at this childish speech. I silently shook my questioner, and at last succeeded in equipping her for departure…I’ll see thee damned before I be thy servant!’ growled the lad.”
Discuss Heathcliff’s reaction to Linton. Be specific. “No! What a shame of your mother, never to waken your filial regard for me! You are my son, then, I’ll tell you; and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed. Now, don’t wince, and colour up!”
How do both Heathcliff and Linton manipulate Cathy. ‘I want her to see Linton,’ he answered; ‘he’s looking better these few days; it’s not often he’s fit to be seen. And we’ll soon persuade her to keep the visit secret: where is the harm of it?’
Describe the role that sickness has played so far in the novel.
salubriouspulingincipient “[The boy answered], shrinking from Catherine’s salute; and he put his fingers to his eyes to remove developing tears.”
cogitationsinnuendos trepidations “The boy was fully occupied with his own meditations for the remainder of the ride, till we halted before the farm-house garden gate.”
bevytrepidationlethargy “I bid the trembling and bewildered child get down, and enter. He…was not yet certain that the grim, sneering stranger was his father; but he clung to me with growing anxiety…and wept.”
Discuss the relationships between the following pairs of characters: Cathy Linton and Linton Heathcliff Heathcliff and Linton Hareton and Cathy Linton
Discuss the relationships between the following pairs of characters: Edgar and Cathy Linton Isabella and Edgar Linton Nelly Dean and Cathy Linton