The Egyptian Language School English Language Department
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Stage: Second Prep Term
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Subject area: Wuthering Heights mid year Revision
Comment on the following quotations:-
1- “I’m trying to decide how I shall take my revenge on Hindley. I don’t
care how long I
wait, if only I can do it in the end.”
2- “You may come and wish Miss Catherine welcome, like all the other
servants.”
3- “Are you trying to make yourself look like your superiors?”
4- “It’s no company at all, when people know nothing, and say nothing.”
5- “I’ve been wandering for twenty years.”
6- “You must take this as a gift of God, though it’s as dark as if it
came from the devil.”
7- “Today Edgar Linton has asked me to marry him. I accepted him. Say
whether I was wrong.”
8- “Wouldn’t the kitchen be a more suitable place?”
9- “You’re worse than twenty enemies, you poisonous friend!”
10- “Thank you for telling me Isabella’s secret. I’ll make good use of
it.”
11- “Your presence is a moral poison that would harm the purest.”
12- “If you haven’t the courage to attack him yourself, say you are
sorry, or allow yourself to
be beaten.”
13- "You are one of the things that are never found when they are
wanted."
14- “Trouble me no more about her. In future she is my sister in name
only.”
15- “I have no pity. The more the worms suffer, the more I desire to
crush them.”
16- “You may tell your master that I have a wish to try my skill at
bringing up a young one,
so if he attempts to remove this one, my own must take its place.”
17- “He my cousin! My father has gone to fetch my cousin from London.”
18- “You’ve brought my property, have you? Let me see it.”
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19- “I take pleasure in him. If he were a born fool, I would not enjoy
it half as much. I can
sympathise with all his feelings, having felt them myself.”
20- “People hate their wives sometimes, but not their brothers and
sisters.”
21- “Get to your own room. Take her there, if she comes to see you.”
22- “If you do meet my father, don’t let him suppose
that I’ve been silent and stupid. Don’t
look sad or he’ll be angry.”
23- “It’s just as if it were a duty he was forced to
do, for fear that his father would be
angry with him. But I’m not here to give Mr Heathcliff
pleasure.”
24- “That boy seems determined to defeat me. I’d thank
his uncle to be quick and go
before him.”
25- “ He’ll think you were tired of looking after him
and ran off for a little amusement .”
26- “That girl owes me her services for her food and
room. I’m not going to keep her
in laziness and rich living.”
27- “Mr Heathcliff, you have nobody to love you. You
are miserable, aren’t you?”
28- “No one here cares what happens to him. If you do,
act the nurse; if you don’t,
lock him up and leave him.”
29- “The whole set of you will be good enough to
understand that I will accept no
pretence of kindness from you. When I would have given
my life for one kind word, you
avoided me.”
30- “You should be friends with your cousin, Mr
Hareton as she is sorry for her past
behavior. It would do you a great deal of good to have
her for a companion.”
31- “I thought I had cured you of laughing.”
32- “You wouldn’t mind me having a few yards of earth
to make pretty, when you have
taken all my land.”
33- “I turn all my energies to planning the
destruction of the two families and when
everything is ready, I find that the will to act has
disappeared.”
34- “Hareton’s appearance was the ghost of my undying
love, of my degradation, my pride,
my happiness and my suffering.”
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Answer the
following questions:-
1- "Last night, I was in misery. Today I am within sight of my
heaven. I have my eyes on it."
a. Who said this? To whom?
b. How did the speaker feel?
c. In his last days, the
speaker had undergone a lot of changes.
Discuss.
2- If you were in Linton's place, describe your feelings upon hearing
your father's way of
talking about you on your very first meeting with him.
3- "Away, you gypsy! What! Are you trying to make yourself look
like your superiors?!"
a. Who said this? To whom?
When?
b. Why was the speaker
angry?
c. What was the result?
4- "I'm trying to decide how I shall take my revenge on Hindley. I
don't care how long I wait,
if only I can do it in the end."
a. Who said this? To whom?
When?
b. How did the speaker take
his revenge on Hindley? (Brief points)
5- Choose one of the themes that are obvious in Wuthering Heights and
discuss it.
6- Differentiate between young Cathy and Catherine.
7- Write a letter to young Cathy giving her some
pieces of advice regarding Heathcliff and
Linton.
8- Thrushcross Grange was a house where you could
enjoy a healthy life while Wuthering
Heights was the opposite. Discuss mentioning events
concerning some characters’ life in both
houses and how everything was always corrupted in one
of them.
9- Compare Catherine's love for Heathcliff with her love for Edgar: What
are the
characteristics of each relationship? Do you
think Catherine regretted her choice of husband?
Why or why not?
Give evidence.
10- Was Heathcliff
a victim or a victimizer? If he was a victim, to whom and if he was a
victimizer, who was
his victim? Why? Support your answer with justifications.
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11- From your point
of view, what is the event that turned all other events upside down and
led to this ending?
Why? If you can change the events and write some others, what will you
change? Why?
12- “You must take
this as a gift of God, though it’s as dark as if it came from the devil.”
This was said by
Mr. Earnshaw when he first brought Heathcliff to the Heights and it acted
like a
foreshadowing to Heathcliff’s character; a gift from God or a devil. Discuss.
13- Analyze
the character of Edgar Linton. Was he a sympathetic figure? How was he
compared to
Heathcliff? Was Catherine really in love with him?
14- Young Cathy
was trapped by Heathcliff. How and why? How did it end and what were
the consequences?
15- Hareton was a
copycat of Heathcliff. Elaborate.
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