‘I was

frightened’ of

the child

Heathcliff’

Nelly Dean

‘Hindley

named a

fiddle’

Lockwood

‘take it as a gift

of God; though

it’s dark almost

as if it came

from the devil.’

Cathy ‘chose a

whip’ ‘1801 – I have

just returned

from a visit to

my landlord’

Nelly Dean Mr Earnshaw Nelly Dean

Nelly Dean Nelly Dean Nelly Dean Heathcliff Heathcliff

Heathcliff ‘it

was the name

of a son who

died in

childhood’

‘I wasn’t

reasonable

enough to feel

my injustice’

‘I had to tend

them, and take

on me the cares

of a woman, at

once, I changed

my ideas’

‘planted ourselves

on a flower-pot

under the

drawing-room

window. The light

came from thence;’

‘clinging to the

ledge, and we

saw – ah! It was

beautiful’

‘a shower of glass

drops hanging in

silver chains from

the centre, and

shimmering with

little soft tapers.’

Heathcliff Heathcliff Heathcliff Old Mr Linton Heathcliff

‘Isabella – I

believe she is

eleven, a year

younger than

Cathy’.

‘the petted

things, we did

despise them!’

Hang Heathcliff

‘before he shows

his nature in acts,

as well as

features?’

‘if Catherine had

wished to return, I

intended shattering

their great glass

panes to a million

fragments’

Heathcliff

‘she is so

immeasurably

superior to them

– to everybody

on earth, is she

not, Nelly?’

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‘I wish I had light

hair and fair

skin... and had a

chance at being as

rich as he will be!’

‘Heathcliff’s

violent nature’ ‘He struggled

long to keep

up with

Catherine in

her studies’

Heathcliff

‘Devil daddy’

‘I end the

matter,

instantly, by a

spring from

the window!’

‘Treachery and

violence are a

just return for

treachery and

violence!’

‘thundered

Heathcliff’

‘the tyrant’

‘he’s only half

a man – not so

much’

Heathcliff

Linton an

‘ailing, peevish

creature’

Catherine Hindley Nelly Dean Isabella Nelly Dean

Nelly Dean Heathcliff Nelly Dean Nelly Dean Lockwood

Cathy ‘casting a

longing look to

the door, and

evidently eager

to be active’

‘I have nearly

attained my

heaven’

Joseph ‘the old

sinner

grinned in

mockery’

Eyes ‘they

would not shut –

they seemed to

sneer at my

attempts’

‘wondered how

anyone could

ever imagine

unquiet

slumbers’