Wuthering Heights

• Out on the wiley, windy moors • We’d roll and fall in green.

• You had a temper like my jealousy: • Too hot, too greedy.

• How could you leave me , • When I needed to possess you?

• I hated you. I loved you, too.

• Bad dreams in the night.

• They told me I was going to lose the fight, • Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering, • Wuthering heights

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy, • I’ve come home. I’m so cold!

• Let me in—a—your window.

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy, • I’ve come home. I’m so cold!

• Let me in—a—your window.

• Ooh, it gets dark! It gets lonely, • On the other side from you.

• I pine a lot. I find the lot • Falls through without you.

• I’m coming back, love.

• Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream, • My only master.

• Too long I roam in the night. • I’m coming back to his side, to put it right.

• I’m coming home to Wuthering, wuthering, • Wuthering Heights,

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy, • I’ve come home. I’m so cold!

• Let me in—a—your window.

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy, • I’ve come home. I’m so cold!

• Let me in—a—your window.

• Ooh! Let me have it.

• Let me grab your soul away.

• Ooh! Let me have it.

• Let me grab your soul away.

• You know it’s me, Cathy!

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy, • I’ve come home. I’m so cold!

• Let me in—a—your window.

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy, • I’ve come home. I’m so cold!

• Let me in—a—your window.

• Heathcliff, It’s me, Cathy, • I’ve come home. I’m so cold!

Wuthering Heights

By Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

• Bronte was raised in Haworth, Yorkshire, which is the setting of Wuthering Heights.

• Emily’s two oldest sisters contracted illnesses at their boarding school and died.

• Her sister Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre.

• Bronte rarely left her home town of Haworth.

• Charlotte, Emily and Anne published their poems in a collection under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

• The scenery of Haworth inspired much of Wuthering Heights.

• Bronte wrote many poems and one novel.

• Emily’s brother died and she contracted tuberculosis at his funeral.

• Emily died from this in 1848.

Historical Background

• Age of Romanticism: –Feeling rather than thinking –Nature –Darker aspects of human nature –Goodness does not always triumph over darkness.

Setting

1772-1802 • Windy moors of Haworth, Yorkshire (wild and hostile yet starkly beautiful) • Brown and gray • Rainy, misty, snowy • Low-growing heather • Two houses: – Wuthering Heights (dark) – Thrushcross Grange (light)

• Told from multiple points of view: – Mr. Lockwood (Frame) – Ellen Dean, servant – Several Characters – Told in flashback

Point of View

Narrators

LOCKWOOD ELLEN DEAN (NELLIE) CATHERINE & HEATHCLIFF

Themes

• Conflict between good and evil • The nature of love (Ill-fated/Romantic) • The darkness of the human soul • Civilization versus Nature/primal passion • Revenge • Madness

Symbols

• Natural scenes and objects • Thrushcross Grange • Wuthering Heights •

Motif

Duals or Twos: • 2 houses • • 2 Catherines 2 love interests for both Catherines

• Simple for the time period • Short, balanced sentences • Poetic style • Strong feeling and emotion

Diction

Main Characters

•

Heathcliff

: – Young gypsy orphan who is taken in by the Earnshaws – The Dark Hero

•

Catherine Earnshaw:

– Wild beautiful girl who befriends Heathcliff and later falls in love with him.

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Hindley Earnshaw:

• Catherine’s brother who grows up disliking Heathcliff -

Edgar and Isabella Linton:

Brother and sister who live in Thrushcross Grange

Hareton Earnshaw

: Son of Hindley Earnshaw

Catherine Heathcliff

: Heathcliff’s daughter-in-law

Linton Heathcliff:

Son of Heathcliff

Joseph:

Servant at W.H.

• Mr. Lockwood:

– First narrator of the story who plans to rent Thrushcross Grange

• Mrs. Ellen (Nelly) Dean:

– Second narrator who relates most of the story – Housekeeper/servant