Wuthering Heights setting

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A-Levels English Litreature Flashcards on Wuthering Heights setting, created by leatay123 on 14/05/2013.
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"I shall never be there but once more when I die, and I shall remain there for ever." The moors is Heathcliff and Cathy love affair, so she won't be their until she die. The they'll be together forever. Their love is routed in the earth--is organic passionate love
"Cold blue sky was half hidden by clouds-dark grey streamers, rapidly mounting from the west." Pathetic fallecy- an on coming storm in young Cathy life. "Rapidly mounting" shows a animistic monster like movement. A power struggle.
"I said his heavens would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk." In gothic fictions theirs a battle between lack of emotion against a excessive amount- between the "Half alive" and the "Drunk". The rational and fanciful
Penistone Crags- their love "My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath a source of little visiable delight" This setting is the essence of their love--its a foundation-unmovable but lonely. The only source of hope for Cathy and Heathcliff
"This bed is the fairy cave under Penistone Crags, and you are gathering elf-bolts to hurt our carves; pretending, while I a near, that they are only locks of wool" Cathy has concoted this fantastical place-unreal a "Fairy cave" for their love. And See Nelly as a manipulated- which she possibly is.
"he walks: there are those who speak to having met him near the church , and on the moor, and even within this house ." Heathcliff and cathy ghost walking on the lands- their love is always linked to the rawness and turmoil of the setting.
"green-slope in a corner of the kirk-yard/ heath and bilberry -plants have climbed over it from the moor;" Cathy grave the moors are filled with life, which keep her alive. "Climbed" shows battle or power in the moors.
"the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed, in stormy weather" "Station", suggest un-moving and stationary and shows how it is constently subject to "Tumult". The Houses are the only things unchanging-almost appeare the power in the setting
"sundry villainous old gun/ chairs, high-backed, primitive structures" The house itself is personified, everything in it is cruel harsh and animistic. The characters are subject to their surroundings.
"But, Mr Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living." He is an outsider/ outcast in the whole play, this battle against nature is a gothic theme.
"barren/deep swamps on either hand with the firmer path/to warn me frequently to steer to the left, or right" "Barren" shows a lack of life, but only after cathys death. Also Lockwood get lost, where Heathcliff doesn't. The moor choose who it helps.
"we crept through a broken hedge, groped our way up the path, and planted ourselves on a flower-pot" "Broken hedge" shows an escape and shows how them being planted their this is their true place or home. going through a broken hedge to get to a flower pot. escaping to happiness.
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