JAMB - Literature In English (2025 - No. 13)
This question is based on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights.
I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back.
I don't care how long I will wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!
Heathcliff
Edgar
Lockwood
Isabella
Explanation
The speaker is Heathcliff, expressing his lifelong obsession with getting revenge on Hindley Earnshaw. Hindley abused and humiliated Heathcliff throughout their childhood, and Heathcliff vows: "I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I will wait...".
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