1. Write down the words according to the definition.
1) antipathy: a feeling of strong dislike towards someone or something.
2) catastrophe: a terrible event in which there is a lot of destruction, suffering,or death
3) countenance: your face or your expression
4) dismal: (of a person or their mood) gloomy
5) hearth: the area of floor around a fireplace in a house
6) indignation: feelings of anger and surprise because you feel insulted or unfairly treated
7) indulge: to let yourself do or have something that you enjoy, especially something that is considered bad for you
8) novelty: something new and unusual which attracts people’s attention and interest
9)recommence: to begin something again after it has stopped
10) heath: an area of open uncultivated land, typically on acid sandy soil, with characteristic vegetation of heather, gorse, and coarse grasses
2. Fill in the blanks in the following sentences.
1.I went into the kitchen and sat down to __lull__ my little lamb to sleep.
2.He must either be hopelessly stupid or a __venturesome__ fool.
3.You have __pledged__ your word, and cannot retract.
4.She exclaimed in an irritated tone, __chafing__ her hands together, and frowning.
5.I’m very farm from __jesting__ , Miss Catherine.
6.What should __hinder___ you from loving them?
7.Her __countenance__ grew sadder and graver, and her clasped hands trembled.
8.We’re dismal enough without __conjuring__ up ghosts and visions to perplex us.
9.I tell you I won’t __harken__ to your dreams.
10. __Ere__ this speech ended, I became sensible of Heathcliff’s presence.
3.Answer the following questions in short..
1.She says “Nelly, I am Heathcliff” to Nelly. Her own words have driven one side of herself away for Heathcliff represents her irrational side and Edgar represents her rational side.
2.Different from the first person singular or the third person omniscient, the story is told chiefly by two characters in the story: Mr. Lockwood, one of the tenants of Heathcliff, and Nelly Dean, a Housekeeper in the service of Catherine, in addition some supplementary aids, like Catherine’s diary. The unusual way of narration adds much to the truthfulness of the story and the complexity of its plot.
3.The Victorian Era, which began in the year 1837 when Queen Victoria came into power and ended in 1901, is characterized as the age of domestic excellence, epitomized by Queen Victorian who represented a kind of femininity centered on the family, motherhood and respectability.
1. Fill in the blanks
1) “Is it worth keeping?” I inquired, less __sulkily__ .
2) “Oh, he couldn’t __overhear__ me at the door! ”
3) Edgar must shake off his __antipathy__ , and tolerate him, at least.
4) The others were the satisfaction of my __whims__ .
5) My love for Linton is like the __foliage__ in the woods.
6) What were the use of my creation if I were entirely __contained__ here.
7) He’ll be as much as to me as he has been all his __lifetime__ .
8) You’ll find him not so __pliable__ as you calculate upon.
9) I was out of __patience__ with her folly!
10) It would __degrade__ me to marry Heathcliff now.
2.Answer the following questions in short.
1.Wuthering Heights exposed violence, moral corruption, deceit, rapacity were reproaches amplified by social and ideological needs of the late 1840s. Emily Bronte’s cast of mind works differently from the Victorian temper. She speaks ahead of her time.
2.This kind of narrative strategy proves to be immensely intriguing because of the advantages it offers. For the readers there is the double perspectives of Nelly’s and Lockwood’s, mutually complimenting, and providing and additional avenue of reading and looking at the story. It also proffers a good deal of leeway for the author to maneuver and manipulate so as to achieve the superb effect of juxtaposing the past with the present and footnoting the behaviors which might have been difficult to understand.
3.Catherine and Heathcliff show a refreshing love of liberty and nature, but that love translates itself into a passionate refusal to grow up. They lack the steadying influence of a mother, and hence grow up without moral restraints and in an atmosphere of patriarchal brutality. They have not been socialized and continue, into adulthood, to assume a direct correlation between their desires and the fulfillment of those desires without usual filters of convention and compromise.