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"My little mistress behaved like an angel in coming to wait on me, and cheer my solitude; the confinement brought me exceedingly low... The moment Catherine left Mr. Linton's room she appeared at my bedside... I said her days were divided between us; but the master retired early, and I generally needed nothing after six o'clock, thus the evening was her own..."

I feel this statement foreshadows that since Cahterine is not usually described as an "angel" that she was probably up to no good on those evenings without supervision. Catherine has already been characterized as a rebellious girl who has a strong mind and does what she thinks is right. Within the next chapter we learn that just as the reader would suspect, she was sneaking off to Wuthering Heights.

Wuthering Heights 5

I feel that the relationship between Cathy Jr. and Linton is supposed to represent a parallel of Catherine and Heathcliff. I feel that Cathy's and Linton's purposes in the book are to live out the life that Catherine and Heathcliff originally wanted but couldn't have. An example from the text that supports this is when Heathcliff says, "My design is as honest as possible. I'll inform you of its whole scope," said he. "That the two cousins may fall in love, and get married..."

Wuthering Heights 5

"Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous..."

Here Mr. Linton is describing Heathcliff. By use of such harsh diction, like "poison" and "contaminate," in this metaphor, an angry tone is set which leads you to see that Mr. Linton is not really a fan of Heathcliff by any means.

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"Judas! Traitor!"

Here the author uses a biblical allusion comparing Heathcliff to the very commonly known traitor, Judas. By using an allusion to a well known story, helps aid the reader in comprehending what is going on. Although it may be easy to tell that Heathcliff is the not seen as the sweetest of characters, using this comparison allows you to feel more confident in that assumption.

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"It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn."

Here the speaker is using a very creative metaphor to describe the situation. By comparing Cathy to the thorns and the Linton family to the honeysuckles, you get a clear idea that Cathy's character is quite the opposite of that of the generous Lintons. This metaphor is a very unique way to characterize them.

Wuthering Heights 2

"Why cannot you always be a good man, father?" But as soon as she saw him vexed again, she kissed his hand, and said she would sing him to sleep.

At first Catherine is talking to her father and doesn't care that she is probably going to hurt his feelings and seem rude by asking him why he is not a good man all the time, and once she sees his upset reaction she changes her tone and offers to sing to him. This tone change is conveyed through the use of many soft "s" sounds in "as" "soon" "she" "saw" "kissed" "sing" "sleep." The soft, hushed sounds show the switch to a warmer tone with her father.

Wuthering Heights 1

"Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tales, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out - on their peril to keep me one minute longer - with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear."

Here there is an allusion to King Lear made. Because King Lear gives a big speech about "retaliating" and seeking revenge on his daughters and Mr. Lockwood is relating the dogs' masters to King Lear by pointing out how they are trying to get revenge on him.