Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 139 views

    Wuthering Heights Notes

    Uploaded by

    Hanadi Al-Quraan
    Emily Bronte was born in northern England near the Yorkshire moors in 1818. She published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, in 1846. The novel tells the story of the Earnshaw and Linton families on the Yorkshire moors through the perspectives of multiple narrators. It explores the passionate but destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff against the backdrop of the isolated moors and contrasting houses of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Wuthering Heights Notes

    Uploaded by

    Hanadi Al-Quraan
    139 views15 pages
    Emily Bronte was born in northern England near the Yorkshire moors in 1818. She published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, in 1846. The novel tells the story of the Earnshaw and Linton families on the Yorkshire moors through the perspectives of multiple narrators. It explores the passionate but destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff against the backdrop of the isolated moors and contrasting houses of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Emily Bronte was born in northern England near the Yorkshire moors in 1818. She published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, in 1846. The novel tells the story of the Earnshaw and Linton families on the Yorkshire moors through the perspectives of multiple narrators. It explores the passionate but destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff against the backdrop of the isolated moors and contrasting houses of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as ppt, pdf, or txt
    139 views15 pages

    Wuthering Heights Notes

    Uploaded by

    Hanadi Al-Quraan
    Emily Bronte was born in northern England near the Yorkshire moors in 1818. She published her only novel, Wuthering Heights, in 1846. The novel tells the story of the Earnshaw and Linton families on the Yorkshire moors through the perspectives of multiple narrators. It explores the passionate but destructive love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff against the backdrop of the isolated moors and contrasting houses of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PPT, PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as ppt, pdf, or txt
    of 15

    Wuthering Heights

    Emily Bronte
    1818-1848
    • Born in northern England; grew up near the
    Yorkshire moors
    • Never had a career, never married, never left
    her home (isolated from society)
    • One of six children; sister Charlotte Bronte
    wrote the famous novel Jane Eyre
    • Her mother died when she was only three
    • She was an “intensely private” person
    • Published Wuthering Heights in 1846
    The Victorian Novel
    • The Victorian Period is named after Queen
    Victoria
    • It was a time when women were expected to be
    prim and completely centered on domestic life
    • Romanticism was a popular movement at the
    time (novels characterized by gothic elements
    such as haunted mansions and twisted love
    stories)
    Romanticism
    • Stressed the importance of feeling rather than
    thinking
    • Emphasis on the natural—the darker aspects of
    existence, especially human nature
    • Focus on romantic attraction and strong
    emotions
    • The “dark hero”- the protagonist who embodies
    the passionate, brooding, possibly evil nature
    Yorkshire Moors
    • “Wuthering” means stormy or turbulent/wild
    • The moor is an essentially hostile environment
    but also beautiful.
    • A desolate and isolated part of England
    • The setting in Wuthering Heights reflects the
    area where Emily Bronte grew up
    • Characterized by rugged hills with scattered,
    hard, black stones with little vegetation
    Point of View
    (the perspective from which a story is told)

    • Events in Wuthering Heights are told from several different


    points of view
    • The novel opens and closes from the point of view of Mr.
    Lockwood
    • The next narrator of the story is Mrs. Ellen (Nelly) Dean; her
    point of view is “closer” to the story itself than Lockwood’s
    • Embedded within the narration of Lockwood and Nelly are
    points when characters such as Isabella Linton and Cathy
    Linton speak for themselves.
    • The reader must ultimately decide what he/she thinks about
    each character because of the varying points of view
    Wuthering Heights and
    Thrushcross Grange
    • Bronte emphasizes the relationship of each house to
    the natural world around it.
    • Wuthering Heights is located on top of a hill where it is
    exposed to the harsh weather and is dark and gloomy.
    • Thrushcross Grange is located in a valley where it is
    protected by a stone wall. The Grange is also luxuriously
    decorated.
    • The contrasting houses also directly reflect the
    inhabitants who live inside
    • Thrushcross- Lintons; Wuthering Heights- Earnshaws
    Characters
    • Heathcliff: brought to WH as a young boy by old Mr.
    Earnshaw; has a wild, uncontrollable nature;
    consumed by his love for Catherine Earnshaw
    • Catherine Earnshaw: a wild girl growing up at WH;
    befriends Heathcliff as a child; attracted to the
    refined life at TG; recognizes that she loves Heathcliff
    but is married to Edgar Linton
    • Edgar Linton: a pampered, somewhat spoiled boy
    living at TG; polite and well educated; attempts to
    “civilize” Catherine but does not understand her
    passionate personality
    •
    Characters
    Hareton Earnshaw: son of Hindley and Frances Earnshaw;
    used a pawn by Heathcliff to wreak revenge on Hindley;
    grows up to be big and strong with a bad temper
    • Cathy Linton: daughter of Catherine Earnshaw and Edgar
    Linton; sheltered upbringing at TG; eventually brings
    peace and happiness to WH
    • Hindley Earnshaw: despises Heathcliff for being favored
    by his father Mr. Earnshaw; unkind and self-destructive;
    mistreats and humiliates Heathcliff and Earnshaw’s death
    • Linton Heathcliff: the sickly son of Isabella Linton and
    Heathcliff; self-centered and unable to love anyone
    Characters
    • Isabella Linton: sister of Edgar Linton; raised at TG; shallow
    and weak; later becomes abusive and vengeful after
    marrying Heathcliff
    • Mr. Lockwood: first narrator of the story; rents TG from
    Heathcliff; well-educated but doesn’t life to be around
    people
    • Mrs. Ellen (Nelly) Dean: second narrator of the story; once
    lived at WH then became housekeeper at TG; sensible and
    trusted by most characters in the story
    • Joseph: elderly servant at WH; prone to evangelical
    ravings about sin/religious fanatic; speaks with a thick
    Yorkshire accent (sounds Scottish)
    Literary Elements and Techniques
    • Structure: The first half of the novel tells the
    story of Catherine Earnshaw, Heathcliff, and
    Edgar Linton. The second half mirrors the first
    by describing the actions of the children of the
    characters in the first half (Cathy Linton, Linton
    Heathcliff, and Hareton Earnshaw).
    • Symbols: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross
    Grange
    • Foreshadowing: the use of ghosts

    You might also like