Question | Answer |
"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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