Wuthering Heights

1. 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.

2. Bad dreams in the night. • They told me I was going to lose the fight, • Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering, • Wuthering heights

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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,

6. 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.

7. 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!

8. 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!

9. Wuthering Heights By Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

10. 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.

11. Bronte rarely left her home town of Haworth.

12. 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.

13. Bronte wrote many poems and one novel. • Emily’s brother died and she contracted tuberculosis at his funeral. • Emily died from this in 1848.

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

15. Setting • 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) 1772-1802

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

18. Narrators LOCKWOOD ELLEN DEAN (NELLIE) CATHERINE & HEATHCLIFF

19. 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

20. Symbols • Natural scenes and objects • Thrushcross Grange • Wuthering Heights Motif • Duals or Twos: • 2 houses • 2 Catherines • 2 love interests for both Catherines

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

22. Main Characters • Heathcliff: • Young gypsy orphan who is taken in by the Earnshaws • The Dark Hero

23. Catherine Earnshaw: • Wild beautiful girl who befriends Heathcliff and later falls in love with him.

24. -Hindley Earnshaw: • Catherine’s brother who grows up disliking Heathcliff -Edgar and Isabella Linton: Brother and sister who live in ThrushcrossGrange

25. Hareton Earnshaw: Son of Hindley Earnshaw Catherine Heathcliff: Heathcliff’s daughter-in-law Linton Heathcliff: Son of Heathcliff Joseph: Servant at W.H.

26. 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