Read the passage and answer the question world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is...

Assessment: WAEC SSCE - Literature In English - 2007 (Objective) Subject: Literature In English

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Read the passage and answer the question

world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning.My great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be. And if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would be turned to a mighty stranger _ is should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath _ as source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!. He's always, always in my mind _ not as a pleasure to myself, but as my own being....

The speaker's love for Heathcliff is
Answer Details
The speaker's love for Heathcliff is indestructible. The passage suggests that the speaker's love for Heathcliff is so strong that it would endure even if everything else in the world perished. The speaker states that Heathcliff is always on her mind and that she and Heathcliff are one and the same, indicating a deep, unbreakable bond. The comparison of her love for Linton to foliage in the woods, which will change with time, underscores the fact that her love for Heathcliff is not like that and is, instead, unchanging and constant like the eternal rocks.

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