11 questions on plot, characters, and themes. Free to take, so you can see exactly what to review before class.
1. Why does Heathcliff leave Wuthering Heights as a young man?
2. What is Heathcliff's primary motive for marrying Isabella Linton?
3. How does Catherine's death occur?
4. What does Heathcliff do to Hareton Earnshaw as an act of revenge?
5. How does Heathcliff gain control of Wuthering Heights?
6. What does Catherine mean when she tells Nelly that her love for Heathcliff goes beyond the soul?
7. How do Cathy and Hareton break the cycle of cruelty that has defined the novel?
8. What does Heathcliff's loss of appetite for revenge suggest about the nature of his character?
9. What role does Nelly Dean play in the novel's structure and meaning?
10. What does the novel suggest about the relationship between class and the characters' fates?
11. How does the novel's ending differ from what Heathcliff's revenge might have promised?
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