Social class

Question 1

Mariam social status quotes - Nana

Answer 1

‘You are a clumsy little harami. This is my reward for everything I’ve endured. An heirloom-breaking clumsy little harami.’
(pg. 4)

Question 2

Heatchliff social status quote - Vagabond

Answer 2

‘Poor Heathcliff! Hindley says call him a vagabond, and won’t let him sit with us, nor eat with us anymore … threatens to turn him out of the house if we break his orders.’
Vol. 1, Chpt. 3 C to N

Question 3

Mariam social status quotes - Shame

Answer 3

‘She was being sent away because she was the living, breathing embodiment of shame.’
(pg. 48)

Question 4

Mariam social status quotes - Rasheed embarrasing her

Answer 4

‘We are city people, you and I, but she is a dehati, a village girl. Not even a village girl. No. She grew up in a kolba made of mud outside the village. Her father put her there. Have you told her, Mariam, have you told her that you are a harami?’
(Pg. 216, Rasheed to Laila)

Question 5

Hndl to Htcl

Answer 5

“beggarly interloper”
“imp of satan”
“take that, I hope he’ll kick out your brains!”

Question 6

Heathcliff and Catherine when they are young

Answer 6

“Miss Earnshaw scouring the country with a gipsy!”

“‘It was one of their chief amusements to run away to the moors un the morning and remain there all day.”

Question 7

Hareton treated as lower class

Answer 7

‘I covet Hareton, with all his degradation’

Volume 2 chapter 7, Heathcliff

Question 8

Description of Heathcliff fter transformation

Answer 8

“It looked intelligent and retained no marks of former degradation. A half-civilised ferocity lurked.”

volume 1 chapter 10, description of Heathcliff