 The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him; they crush those beneath them. You are welcome to torture me to death for your amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style, and refrain from insult as much as you...  Wuthering Heights - Page 83by Emily Brontë - 1870 - 446 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Emily Brontë - England - 1848 - 308 pages
...it, and stand you aside !" " I seek no revenge on you," replied Heathcliff less vehement-ly. " That's not the plan. The tyrant grinds down his slaves and...refrain from insult as much as you are able. Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for... | |
 | Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 538 pages
...you infernally ? " " I seek no revenge on you," replied Heathcliflf, , less vehemently. ' ' That's not the plan. The tyrant grinds down his slaves and...refrain from insult as much as you are able. Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for... | |
 | Elsie Browning Michie - Authors, English - 1993 - 212 pages
...their own hands, and delighting in mastery almost to the point of torture. As Heathcliff says to Cathy: "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't...allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style" (11.87). For both, the wealth they have accumulated is bound to their own physical persons. In Wuthering... | |
 | Yael Danieli - Medical - 1998 - 752 pages
...many frustrations inflamed internecine violence. As Emily Bronte ( l847l wrote in Wuthering Heiglus: "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them" PARALLELS WITH THE ANGLO-BOER WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA Even at the time of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa... | |
 | Marianne Thormählen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 301 pages
...he intends to take revenge on her. This is HeathclifFs reply: 'I seek no revenge on you . . . That's not the plan The tyrant grinds down his slaves and...allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style . . . ' (1.xi.n2). Having admitted to possessing a 'plan', Heathcliff establishes a hierarchy of suffering:... | |
 | Laura C. Berry - Literary Criticism - 224 pages
...addressed to Cathy, concerning his dalliance with Isabella: "I seek no revenge on you. . . . That's not the plan — The tyrant grinds down his slaves...allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style" (151). In this passage, power, tyranny, and enslavement are entirely personal, enabling Heathcliff... | |
 | Gerry Spence - Family & Relationships - 1999 - 392 pages
...system is carried on the backs of the poor and the powerless. The English novelist Emily Bronte wrote, "The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush, instead, those beneath them." And because the poor and the powerless are, for reasons not yet fully... | |
 | Robert Johanson - Yorkshire (England) - 2000 - 124 pages
...little while! HEATHCLJFF. I seek no revenge on you. You are welcome to torture me to death for your own amusement, only allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style. Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.... | |
 | Joseph Hillis Miller, Julian Wolfreys - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 470 pages
...will not, he says, 'suffer unrevenged' (128). But, says Heathcliff, 'I seek no revenge on you . . . The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn...allow me to amuse myself a little in the same style . . .' (128). HeathclifFs cruelty toward others is a mode of relation to Cathy. Though his appearance... | |
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