Select a quote (with page #) from chapters 11-24 that you find particularly important and interesting. Record the quote and discuss why you chose it.
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"May she wake in tormnet!" he cried, with frieghtful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paoxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there--not in heaven--not perished--where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in the abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" (p. 161-162)
This is evidently a powerful quote, and clearly and effectively illustrates how strong Heathcliff's love for Catherine really is. But it also suggests the ideas of both their love as an addiction and Catherine and Heathcliff as soulmates. Catherine clearly cannot live without Heathcliff, and he states in this quote exactly how and why he can't live without her. She is his "soul." This need for one another is a clear addiction, but I'm not sure if that should be a completely different "type" of love. I think that because they feel so strongly for each other, and only because their love is clearly so strong and powerful, they need each other. It seems like their type of love just isn't comprehensible or normal to most readers, or even the characters around them, but I don't think that qualifies as an entirely different type of love. I just think that most people haven't felt the power these two clearly have in finding their "soul mate."
"'You teach me how cruel you've been--cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry, and wring out my kisses and tears; they'll blight you--they'll damn you. You loved me--then what right had you to leave me?'" (156).
This quote is obviously from Heathcliff. In and of itself, it is some serious venting on his part. I think it represents the height of Heathcliff's 'hate' in the love-hate relationship they seem to have. But at the same time...as I read this, I thought about how in truth, he is in love with her. And it got me thinking about a common phrase we hear-- "we hurt the ones we love the most." Heathcliff loves her the most of anyone, so why does he hurt her by saying this? But then I thought that this quote talks about how it was her fault, that she hurt him, and maybe he was a bit justified in saying this. But thennnn...there is the part of the quote that talks about how she is only hurting herself-- "You have killed yourself", and how his tears will "damn you." Soooo in the end, it is all one big circle that only reinforces the concept of their union/"oneness" in love and as people.
"How dreary to meet death, surrounded by their cold faces!...And Edgar standing solemnly by to see it over, then offering prayers of thanks to God for restoring peace to his house, and going back to his books! What in the name of all that feels has he to do with books, when im dying?" (p.118)
This is what Catherine says to Nelly when she is dying/hysterical. Catherine wants edagar to show that he cares- to fight for her. however he is not expressing love and passion, he hides behind his books. I chose this quote because it reminded me of The Tempest or Frankenstein and other romantic works we have read- in which those who get to involved with books and learning suffer in the end- in the Tempest Prospero gets to involved with magic and loses his kingdom, in Frankenstein the scientist gets too wrapped up in his work and loses his family. In this passage Edgar is chosing books over taking care of catherine
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"May she wake in tormnet!" he cried, with frieghtful vehemence, stamping his foot, and groaning in a sudden paoxysm of ungovernable passion. "Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there--not in heaven--not perished--where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer--I repeat it till my tongue stiffens--Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you--haunt me then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe--I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in the abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh God! it is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!" (p. 161-162)
This is evidently a powerful quote, and clearly and effectively illustrates how strong Heathcliff's love for Catherine really is. But it also suggests the ideas of both their love as an addiction and Catherine and Heathcliff as soulmates. Catherine clearly cannot live without Heathcliff, and he states in this quote exactly how and why he can't live without her. She is his "soul." This need for one another is a clear addiction, but I'm not sure if that should be a completely different "type" of love. I think that because they feel so strongly for each other, and only because their love is clearly so strong and powerful, they need each other. It seems like their type of love just isn't comprehensible or normal to most readers, or even the characters around them, but I don't think that qualifies as an entirely different type of love. I just think that most people haven't felt the power these two clearly have in finding their "soul mate."
"'You teach me how cruel you've been--cruel and false. Why did you despise me? Why did you betray your own heart, Cathy? I have not one word of comfort. You deserve this. You have killed yourself. Yes, you may kiss me, and cry, and wring out my kisses and tears; they'll blight you--they'll damn you. You loved me--then what right had you to leave me?'" (156).
This quote is obviously from Heathcliff. In and of itself, it is some serious venting on his part. I think it represents the height of Heathcliff's 'hate' in the love-hate relationship they seem to have. But at the same time...as I read this, I thought about how in truth, he is in love with her. And it got me thinking about a common phrase we hear-- "we hurt the ones we love the most." Heathcliff loves her the most of anyone, so why does he hurt her by saying this? But then I thought that this quote talks about how it was her fault, that she hurt him, and maybe he was a bit justified in saying this. But thennnn...there is the part of the quote that talks about how she is only hurting herself-- "You have killed yourself", and how his tears will "damn you." Soooo in the end, it is all one big circle that only reinforces the concept of their union/"oneness" in love and as people.
-Sarah
"How dreary to meet death, surrounded by their cold faces!...And Edgar standing solemnly by to see it over, then offering prayers of thanks to God for restoring peace to his house, and going back to his books! What in the name of all that feels has he to do with books, when im dying?" (p.118)
This is what Catherine says to Nelly when she is dying/hysterical. Catherine wants edagar to show that he cares- to fight for her. however he is not expressing love and passion, he hides behind his books. I chose this quote because it reminded me of The Tempest or Frankenstein and other romantic works we have read- in which those who get to involved with books and learning suffer in the end- in the Tempest Prospero gets to involved with magic and loses his kingdom, in Frankenstein the scientist gets too wrapped up in his work and loses his family. In this passage Edgar is chosing books over taking care of catherine
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