Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

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Wuthering HeightsEmily Bronte
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Emily Bronte
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Section of England that Wuthering Heights is Set
in
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North Yorkshire Moors
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English moors- Heather
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Chapters 1-6

• Ch 1 Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross
  Grange meets his landlord, Heathcliff at
  Wuthering Heights
• Ch 2 Lockwood revisits Wuthering Heights-a
  snowstorm forces him to spend the night
• Ch 3 Lockwood experiences a rather sleepless,
  uncomfortable night, and possibly sees the
  apparition of Catherine Linton

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Chapters 1-6

• Ch 4 At The Grange, Nelly Dean begins her
  narration, telling Lockwood of the first night
  Mr. Earnshaw brought Heathcliff to the house
  (1770- 30 years ago)
• Ch 5 Mr. Earnshaw dies and leaves WH to his sun
  Hindley (about 1776) Heathcliff and Catherine
  become close
• Ch 6 Catherine and Heathcliff eavesdrop on the
  Lintons, make fun of Edgar and Isabella-
  Catherine is attacked by a dog and forced to stay
  the night, Heathcliff is forced to go home

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Chapters 1-6Characters

• Lockwood
• Heathcliff
• Mrs. Heathcliff
• Nelly Dean
• Hindley
• Catherine
• Mr. Earnshaw

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Chapters 1-6

• Use of Imagery
• Descriptions meant to appeal to the senses
• Description of WH
• Description of TG
• Heathcliff How is Heathcliff described?

• Use of Diction
• Kinds or levels of language employed in a work
• What kind of words are used to describe or refer
  to Heathcliff?

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Chapters 7-10

• Ch 7 Catherine returns from 5 wk stay at the
  Grange Heathcliff assaults Edgar Edgar,
  Isabella, and Catherine become friends
• Ch 8 Frances dies from consumption a few months
  after giving birth to Hareton Hindley becomes
  depressed and vile and more cruel to Heathcliff
  Edgar courts Catherine

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Chapters 7-10

• Ch 9 Catherine accepts Edgars proposal
  Heathcliff leaves WH 3 years later, Catherine
  and Edgar marry and live in The Grange
• Ch 10 5 months after the wedding, Heathcliff
  returns to WH a changed man he suprises
  Catherine with a visit to TG Catherine confronts
  him about his flirtations with Isabella

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Chapters 11-12

• Ch 11 Heathcliff and Edgar fight, which causes
  Catherine to have a temper tantrum, lock herself
  in her room, and refuse to eat for two days
• Ch 12 As Edgar worries over Catherines
  deteriorating health, Isabella elopes with
  Heathcliff

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Chapters 13-16

• Ch 13 Isabella writes a letter to Mrs. Dean
  explaining that she has returned to WH with
  Heathcliff and realizes her marriage to him was a
  mistake
• Ch 14 Mrs. Dean visits Isabella at WH and is
  shocked at her condition. She agrees to carry a
  letter from Heathcliff to Catherine
• Ch 15 Heathcliff and Catherine have an emotional
  reunion at TG

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Chapters 13-16

• Ch 16 Soon after Heathcliff leaves, Catherine
  gives birth to a daughter, names her Catherine,
  and dies

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Ch 17-19

• Ch 17 Isabella leaves WH and moves to London,
  where she gives birth to a son, Linton. Hindley
  dies and Heathcliff becomes master of WH (late
  1784)
• Ch 18 Young Cathy visits WH by chance, and is
  puzzled to learn that the uncouth, uneducated
  Hareton Earnshaw is her cousin (1796)

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Chapters 17-19

• Ch 19 Isabella dies in London and Edgar brings
  Linton back to TG (1797)

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Chapters 20-22

• Ch 20 The next day, in response to Heathcliffs
  demand, Linton is sent to live at WH
• Ch 21 Heathcliff reintroduces Linton to Cathy,
  and they correspond until Mrs. Dean intervenes
  (1800)
• Ch 22 Heathcliff convinces Cathy that she must
  visit Linton to ease his broken heart.

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Chapters 23-25

• Ch 23 After an initial quarrel, Cathy and the
  sickly Linton become friends. Cathy secretly
  rides to WH daily
• Ch 24 Mrs. Dean discovers Cathys daily trips to
  WH and ends them
• Ch 25 Linton writes a letter begging Cathy to
  save his life by seeing him again. Edgar, in poor
  health, assures Cathy that he will not try to
  stop her marriage to Linton

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Chapters 26-28

• Ch 26 Cathy and Mrs. Dean meet Linton on the
  moor near WH. His obvious sickness troubles them,
  but he insists, and they agree to visit him the
  following week on the moor.
• Ch 27 With Linton as lure, Heathcliff imprisons
  Cathy and Mrs. Dean at WH. To gain her freedom so
  that she can return to her dying father, Cathy
  agrees to marry Linton
• Ch28 Cathy escapes and is with Edgar as he dies
  without changing the will that leaves his
  property to Cathy, and thus to her new husband
  Linton

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Chapters 29-31

• Ch 29 Heathcliff insists that Cathy must return
  to her wifely duties at WH.
• Ch 30 Mrs. Deans story ends with Lintons death
  and Heathcliffs in heritance of all of the
  Linton property (about 1801)
• Ch 31 Lockwood again visits WH and observes
  Cathy taunting Hareton over his illiteracy

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Chapters 32-34

• Ch 32 Six months later, Lockwood returns to WH.
  He finds that Heathcliff is dead and Cathy and
  Hareton are in love
• Ch 33 Mrs. Dean describes Heathcliffs strange
  behavior- particularly his lack of interest in
  revenge- near the end of his life, and Haretons
  steadfast refusal to disparage Heathcliff, his
  tormentor
• Ch 34 Mrs. Dean relates the mysterious death of
  Heathcliff

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Theme Social Class and Gender

• How does social class motivate Catherines
  actions?
• How does she change her class?
• What role do servants play in the novel?
• Heathcliff gypsy, traits are associated with
  lower classes
• Female (Cathy) ultimately restores balance to the
  two families

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Theme The significance of setting

• The Yorkshire Moors
• Wuthering Heights Chaos, ignorance
• Thrushcross Grange civility, order
• How do the houses reflect their inhabitants?
• How do the settings influence the novels
  characters?
• Wild beauty of the landscape tumultuous weather

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Theme Revenge

• First half of the book establishes Heathcliffs
  motives for seeking revenge
• Second half shows him carrying out his desire for
  revenge
• Bronte shows that revenge (an emotion of hate
  rather than love) is ultimately self-defeating
• Heathcliffs plans are defeated in the union of
  Cathy and Hareton

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Theme Families

• Patriarchal Victorian families
• Effects of child abuse and how children defend
  themselves
• Illness and eating disorders become a tool for
  control
• Addictions as an escape from depression
• Men are powerful women and children are
  economically vulnerable and powerless

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Theme Romantic Love

• Two kinds of romantic love
• One is restrained, respectable devotion-
  represented through Edgars relationship with
  Catherine
• The other is the reckless, passionate union of
  souls like Catherine and Heathcliff
• Which love is more admirable?

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Theme Conflict between good and evil

• Greed, vengefulness, selfishness, failure to
  forgive
• Characters are often both good and bad, though at
  first they may appear one or the other
• Good eventually triumphs over evil
• At the center of the human soul, there is
  darkness and violence a universal condition of
  human nature

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Contrasting Characters

• Edgar and Heathcliff
• Linton and Hareton
• Catherine and Cathy

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Literary Elements

• Point-of-view
• Natural imagery
• Frame tale
• Gothic
• Supernatural elements