The Most Remarkable Novel In English! --Walter Allen Prominent English Critic.

The Most

RemarkableNovel

In English!

--Walter Allen Prominent English Critic

TheOnly Victorian Novel

UNDIMMED,Even partially

By the dust of time!--David Cecil, critic

TIMELESSSUBJECTMATTER

PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER!

A STORY OF

UndyingLOVE!!

A STORY OF

Thesupernatural

A STORY OF

Conflict!

A STORY OF

Revenge!

A STORY OF

Rebellion!

A STORY OF

wildPASSION!!!

May I introduce….• Emily Bronte’s

Wuthering Heights

Introduction

First published in 1847, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights ranks high on the

list of major works of English literature.

Introduction

A brooding tale of passion and revenge set in the Yorkshire moors, the novel has inspired no fewer than four film versions in modern times.

IntroductionEarly critics did not like the work, citing its excess of passion and its coarseness. A second edition was published in 1850, two years after the author’s death. Sympathetically prefaced by her sister Charlotte, it met with greater success, and the novel has continued to grow in stature ever since.

Check out these websites.http://www.wuthering-heights.co.uk/emily-portraits.phphttp://www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/thornton/thornton.asphttp://www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/emily/emily.asphttp://www.haworth-village.org.uk/brontes/parsonage/parsonage.asphttp://www.haworth-village.org.uk/history/church/bronte_church.asp

And for vocabulary Quizlet—

http://quizlet.com/1360468/wuthering-heights-first-25-vocab-words-flash-cards/

WUTHERING HEIGHTS

CHARACTER: HeathcliffBrooding, vengeful,

and tormented!

Passionately, obsessively

drawn to Catherine Earnshaw!

Catherine Earnshaw

High Spirited and independent!

She is Heathcliff’s soul-mate, but marries Edgar

Linton

Hindley EarnshawCatherine’s UngenerousBrother.

He abuses HeathcliffBecomes a drunkard

Loses Wuthering Heights to Heathcliff

Frances EarnshawHindley met/ married her at college and brought her back to Wuthering Heights. WEAK, DELICATEDied soon after giving birth to Hareton.

Hindley EarnshawSon of Hindley and

Frances.After his mother’s

death and his father’s downfall, he is reduced to servant status by cruel Heathcliff.

THRUSHCROSS GRANGE

CHARACTERS: Mr. and Mrs. Linton

Owners of Thrushcross Grange

Parents of Edgar and Isabella

Edgar LintonCatherine’s refined and loving husband

He lacks Heathcliff’s dashing dark looks as well as Heathcliff’svigor and passion.

Isabella Linton• Despite repeated

warnings from her brother Edgar and from Catherine, Isabella marries Heathcliff, who does not love her.

Linton HeathcliffHeathcliff andIsabella’s sickly,selfish son.

Cathy Linton• Proud daughter

of Catherine Earnshaw Linton and Edgar Linton

• Inherits traits of both parents

Nelly DeanOne of twonarrators, sheis a servant whohas lived at bothWuthering Heightsand Thrushcross Grange. She knows both the Lintons and the Earnshaws. She has remarkable common sense, but little imagination.

Joseph

Elderly, self-righteous

servant at

Wuthering Heights

Zillah

Earthy housekeeper

at

Wuthering Heights

Mr. LockwoodAn outsider and a foppish city-dweller who rents Thrushcross Grange and is one of the two narrators.

THEMES

Themes in Bronte’s Wuthering Heights

Love and Passion


REVENGE


Violence and Cruelty


CLASSCONFLICT


NATURE


SUPERNATURAL

The Most Remarkable Novel In English! --Walter Allen Prominent English Critic.

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