Wuthering Heights and The Haunting of hill house

1. Wuthering Heights and The Haunting of hill house Taylor Guthrie Presentation Adam Colton December 9, 2013

2. Thesis • Although these two books share many differences, their similarities with a creepy house, complex relationships between characters and eerie settings show many similarities and how the authors both had a similar theme.

3. Wuthering heights:Introduction • Story begins in 1801 • Main character, Lockword, visits his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, at a manor called Wuthering Heights • Decides to visit Mr. Heathcliff again not long after and when he arrives the weather becomes to bad for him to walk home • During his stay there, he half awakes to a ghostly hand sobbing the name “Catherine Linton” • He runs home full of fear

4. Wuthering heights:Introduction Continued • Thinking about the night before, the next day Lockword asks his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him the strange history of Wuthering Heights and what happened there • Nelly used to be a housekeeper at Wuthering Heights so she begins to tell Lockword everything she knew

5. Wuthering Heights:Plot • Mr. Heathcliff was adopted as a child and falls in love with his step sister, Catherine • Hindley, his step brother, hated him and at Christmas he locked Heathcliff in the attack upstairs • Years later, Hindley gets married to a girl named Frances but she dies shortly after while giving birth to a baby boy, Hareton • Catherine beings to fall in love with her neighbor Edgar, Mr. Linton’s son • Heathcliff is very upset and humiliated

6. Wuthering Heights:Plot Continued • Edgar asks Catherine to marry him and she says yes • Heathcliff runs away after hearing the news and Catherine almost dies while searching for him in the cold • Catherine recovers from being sick but kills Mr. and Mrs. Linton with her disease • Edgar and Catherine get married three years later

7. Wuthering Heights:Plot Continued • Heathcliff returns home six months after their marriage • Heathcliff has grown into a polished, handsome and wealthy man • Catherine is more than happy to see him • Edgar’s sister, Isabella, falls in love with Heathcliff • Edgar can see Catherine still loves Heathcliff and tells her to choose between them so she locks herself in a room but becomes very sick

8. Wuthering Heights:Plot Continued • The same night Catherine recovers, Isabella and Heathcliff elope • Months later, Isabella runs to Nelly and tells her that Wuthering Heights is terrible, Healthcliff treats her horribly and Hindley is obsessed with killing Heathcliff • Heathcliff demands to see Catherine when she gets sick again and near death • Catherine admits to Heathcliff she cannot live without him

9. Wuthering Heights:Plot Continued • Catherine dies that night giving birth two months prematurely to baby Catherine • Soon after, Isabella leaves Wuthering Heights for London and gives birth to Linton • Isabella dies when Linton is twelve so he goes to Wuthering Heights to live with his father where he treats him like property • Six months after Catherine’s death, Hindley dies and Heathcliff takes over Wuthering Heights

10. Wuthering Heights:Plot Continued • Catherine grows up with no knowledge of Wuthering Heights until she escapes to find out • Heathcliff wants Catherine and Linton to get married and makes her visit Linton when he is very sick • Heathcliff locks Catherine and Nelly in the house until Catherin and Linton are married

11. Wuthering Heights:Ending • The story Nelly tells Lockwood about Wuthering Heights is reaching to present day • Edgar passes away soon after they are married • Heathcliff removes half of the original Catherine’s coffin so that a side of her can be with Edgar and the other side will be by Heathcliff when he dies • Nelly has not seen Catherine since Nelly left Wuthering Heights

12. Wuthering Heights:Ending Continued • Nelly wants Catherine to come live with her and thinks the only thing that can save her is another marriage • After hearing this story, Lockwood plans to tell Heathcliff he is moving to London for six months to find another tenant • He does not want to spend another winter in such strange company • Lockwood goes to end his tenancy at Wuthering Heights and takes Catherine a note from Nelly

13. Wuthering Heights:Ending Continued • Lockwood returns six months later to find that Nelly had moved back into Wuthering Heights • Heathcliff is dying and when he does, Catherine and Hareton will get married

14. The Haunting of Hill HouseIntroduction • Story begins in the 1950s • Dr. John Montague is a doctor of philosophy that has been searching his entire life for a real haunted house • He discovers a house called Hill House • He needs assistants to join him so he writes to twelve while only two agreed to come with him • The two assistants are Eleanor Vance and Theodora

15. The Haunting of Hill HouseIntroduction Continued • Dr. Montague tells the girls not to stop anywhere on the way to Hill House due to people being unfriendly when mentioned • Eleanor stops anyway to find out as much as possible • When Eleanor arrives at the house, Mr. Dudley, the care taker, warns her about the dangers • She says the house is vile and shivers at the sight of it • She wishes she had turned back at the gate

16. The Haunting of Hill HouseIntroduction Continued • Mrs. Dudley shows her to her room and says dinner is ready at six o’clock sharp because she leaves directly after to avoid the night • Theodora teases Eleanor about being scared and comforts her greatly • Luke also joins them in the house. He is a member of the family who owns the house • Dr. Montague plans to write a book about their experience • Theodora and Eleanor beg Dr. Montague to tell them what is going to happen to them

17. The Haunting of Hill HousePlot • Dr. Montague says he discovered a tale of a suicide, madness and lawsuits connected to Hill House • He chooses Theodora and Eleanor as assistants because Theodora has documented telepathic ability and Eleanor has been involved with poltergeist phenomena when she was younger • Dr. Montague goes on with the story

18. The Haunting of Hill HousePlot Continued • Hugh Crain built the house. Before his wife saw the house, her carriage overturned in the driveway and killed her instantly • The second woman he married died unexpectedly in a fall • His third wife died of tuberculosis • He had two daughters, his youngest committed suicide • Huge Crain designed every angle of the house to be slightly off and that is why they always got lost

19. The Haunting of Hill HousePlot Continued • In the nursery is a big cold spot, it seemed to be the most haunted room in the house • The first night they all slept well but the second night the girls awoke to a crashing sound outside the door • The boys did not hear the crash at all • The next day, written on the wall in huge chalk letters said “HELP ELEANOR COME HOME” but Theodora was the one who did it to scare Eleanor

20. The Haunting of Hill HousePlot Continued • Then, in Theodora’s room written on the wall in red paint it said “HELP ELEANOR COME HOME ELEANOR” • Eleanor was not frightened at all this time and they believe she might have been the one to do it • That night, the girls stayed in Eleanor’s room. Eleanor hears crazy laughter and babbling in Theodora's room. She hears a child’s voice and screams, Theo wakes up and Eleanor wonders who hands she was holding

21. The Haunting of Hill HousePlot Continued • Eleanor starts to like Luke, Theo mocks Eleanor about it • Dr. Montague’s wife comes to the house to see if she can feel or hear anything • That night, Eleanor hears the crashing sound and tiny laughter again. Mrs. Montague claims she heard nothing at all • Eleanor constantly says “Journeys ending in lovers meeting” throughout the book. She wants to live with Theodora after summer because for once she is finally happy

22. The Haunting of Hill HousePlot Continued • Late that night, Eleanor can not sleep so she goes by the library and hears her mothers voice so she follows it • Everyone in the house begins looking for Eleanor and she prances through the house hiding from them • She begins to climb the iron staircase to the tower and Luke risks his life with the unstable staircase and goes up to get her and bring her down

23. The Haunting of Hill HouseEnding • The next morning, Dr. Montague says she has to pack her things and leave. He thinks it is unsafe for her to be in the house • Eleanor laughs and says she can’t leave and that the house wants her to stay • They will not let her back in and make her get in her car to go home • She says they cannot make her leave again as she goes to her car • As she goes to leave she drives her car right into the looming tree and crashes

24. The Haunting of Hill HouseEnding continued • They all leave the house after that and go back to their original lives • The house had very strong feelings for Eleanor and would not let her go • The evil in the house acted through negative emotions and possessed her • The same tree that took two other lives took Eleanor's

25. The Haunting of Hill HouseEnding Continued • She shakes off the possession just in time to witness her own death, she had no idea what she was doing the last second before she died • Throughout Eleanor and Theodor’s time there, they acted like the two sisters who used to live there

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