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Nelly, I am Heathcliff!’. Catherine describes to Nelly the different types of love that she has for Heathcliff and Edgar Linton. While her love for Edgar will change over time, Catherine sees her love for Heathcliff as solid and eternal, as if she and Heathcliff inhabit the same body.
- “He shall never know I love him: and that, not because he’s handsome, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made out of, his and mine are the same.”
- “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
- “I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.” It should be obvious by now that Catherine is a pretty conflicted character. In this Wuthering Heights quote from Chapter 12, she looks back longingly on the time before she was introduced to the Lintons and, by extension, to the “civilized” world.
- “If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn’t love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.” Heathcliff makes this comment in Chapter 14 to “prove” his love for Catherine is greater than Edgar Linton’s could ever be.
What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.
Catherine’s health declines from the stress of being torn between her two loves, a passionate love with Heathcliff and a platonic love for Edgar. ‘I’ll inform you Catherine Linton is as different now from your old friend Catherine Earnshaw, as that young lady is different from me.
Jan 12, 2022 · From ‘Wuthering Heights’ to ‘Girl, Woman, Other’, Charlotte Cripps picks 20 romantic quotes about loved-up or star-crossed book characters.
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Apr 27, 2024 · The juxtaposed relationships which Catherine has with Edgar and Heathcliff creates insights about how extreme love might differ from romantic love in general. In one scene, for example, Catherine asks Nelly who she should marry, and they consider the diverging paths her life might take.
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