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Short Introduction about The Novel

Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights Lectures 3–4 for Third Year Students/ Evening Classes Prepared By Dr Ali Badeen Mohammed. Short Introduction about The Novel.

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Short Introduction about The Novel

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  1. Emily Bronte’s Wuthering HeightsLectures 3–4 for Third Year Students/ Evening Classes Prepared By Dr Ali Badeen Mohammed

  2. Short Introduction about The Novel Wuthering Heights is published for the first time in 1847. It is a lasting gothic romance full of intrigue and terror. Main actions in it are located in the countryside of northern England, where the climate wavers in sudden extremes and where the marshes are open for adventurers. Under this atmosphere which is unpredictable, Bronte searches the violent and unpredictable elements of human passion.

  3. Important Tips about the Novel The story narrates the stormy romance between Heathcliff, an orphan who is taken to Wuthering Heights on impulse, and Catherine Earnshaw, a strong-willed girl and an intimate partner. The stage is fundamental for the novel. Both the action and the characters can be understood in terms of two households. Wuthering Heights, overtaken by the violent usurper, Heathcliff, which becomes a dark and wintry world of acts that lead to brutality, revenge and social alienation. What Wuthering Heights lacks in history, education and sociability is provided by Thrushcross Grange. Bronte uses the element of unpredictability to stimulate actions in Wuthering Heights, which adds emotion and the suspense at each step and animates the characters infusing them with the characteristic tempest of the climate of WH. Apparently, casual events gather like clouds to create the passionate story of Heathcliff and Catherine. The main characters meet by chance and let themselves wander through the wasteland together, away from the world of refuge and discipline, when Catherine’s father dies, leaving her tyrannical brother, Hindley, in charge. The accident also explains Catherine's introduction to the more refined world of Thrushcross Grange, when she is bitten by a dog while she spies on her cousins. Even Heathcliff's angry anger and vengeance is the result of overhearing, listening only to what might be confusing rejection, and not Catherine’s true feelings for him.

  4. Lectures 3–4 Questions 1. Who owns the diary that Lockwood reads? 2. Why does Lockwood reach out the window? 3. What happens to Lockwood’s hand? 4. After he leaves the room, what does Lockwood see Heathcliff do? 5. Why does Nelly Dean know so much about Wuthering Heights? 6. How did Heathcliff come to Wuthering Heights? 7. How did Mr. Earnshaw treat Heathcliff? 8. What was Cathy’s relationship with Heathcliff like? 9. What was Hindley’s relationship with Heathcliff like? 10. How did Joseph influence Mr. Earnshaw?

  5. Lectures 3–4 Answers The diary belongs to Catherine Earnshaw. Lockwood keeps being awoken by the beating sound of a tree branch on the window and finally gets irritated enough to try to grip the branch. Lockwood tries to take hold of the branch but instead he makes contact with the cold hand of Catherine’s ghost. Lockwood sees Heathcliff fling open the window and call out greatly to Catherine’s ghost, begging her to return. Nelly Dean knows a lot about the residents of Wuthering Heights as she grew up as a servant there along with Heathcliff and the Earnshaw children. Heathcliff was brought to Wuthering Heights as a child after Mr. Earnshaw saw him living on the streets of Liverpool and took pity on him. Mr. Earnshaw showed great bias toward Heathcliff and clearly loved him more than his own children. Though Cathy was firstly mean to Heathcliff, they quickly grew to be best friends. Hindley was very jealous of Heathcliff’s relationship with Mr. Earnshaw and grew to hate Heathcliff, often physically hurting him. Joseph uses his impact over Mr. Earnshaw to convince him that Catherine and Hindley are impressive children.

  6. References Allot, Miriam. The Brontës: The Critical Heritage. Routledge, 1974. A collection of criticism on the works of the Brontë sisters, including reprints of early reviews of Wuthering Heights and Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell and Charlotte Brontë’s observations on her sister’s novel. Eagleton, Terry. “Myths of Power: A Marxist Study on Wuthering Heights.” In Case Studies In Contemporary Criticism: Wuthering Heights. St. Martin’s, 1992, pp. 399-414. Eagleton analyzes the novel in terms of class differences in nineteenth-century England. Gerin, Winifred. Emily Brontë: A Biography. Clarendon, 1971. Gérin discusses Emily Brontë’s life and the effect of her environment on her work. Wion, Philip K. “The Absent Mother in Wuthering Heights.” In American Imago, Vol. 42, No. 2, 1985. Wion suggests that the early death of Emily Brontë’s mother accounts for Brontë’s portrayal of orphaned charactersin search of mother figures.

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