Wuthering Heights

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Wuthering Heights

Marloes Bongaarts, Sanne Dekker, Fleur Dijkhuizen 

en Wiam El Mokadmi

Table of Contents

• Author’s life
  
• Summary
  
• The spirit of life
  
• Film and book
  
• The importance of the author/genre

In which century do you think this book is written?

1. 18th century
2. 17th century
3. 16th century
4. 19th century

Author's life

• Born in 1818
• One of 6 children 
• Clergy daughters school

Anna, Emily and Charlotte Bronte

Bleak moorland factory

Author's life

• Studied in Brussel
  
• Different pseudonyms
  
• Critical reviews 

What name did Emily Brönte use as alias?

1. Emile Bell
2. Ellis Brönte
3. Ellis Bell
4. Ethan Bell

• Lockwood rents the estate thrushcross grange
• He visits his landlord Heathcliff
• He writes down the story Nelly tells him

Summary

Lockwood

Heathcliff

Nelly

• Mister Earnshaw lives on Wuthering Heights with two children, Catherine and Hindley
• He brings back an orhpan named Heathcliff
• Hindley despises the new child
• Earnshaw sends Hindley away to college

Mister Earnshaw

Young Heathcliff

Catherine and Hindley

• Catherine and Heathcliff fall in love
• Mister Earnshaw dies and Hindley inherits Wuthering Heights
• Heathcliff is treated as a servant
• Hareton is born
• Catherine gets hurt and stays in Thruscross Grange
• Catherine can't marry Heathcliff
• Heathcliff flees Wuthering Heights

• Catherine and Edgar Linton marry
• Heathcliff returns a rich man
• Hindley dies and Heathcliff inherits Wuthering Heights
• Heathcliff marries Isabella Linton

Edgar Linton

Hindley

Isabella Linton

• Catherine falls ill 
• Cathy is born
• Heathcliff and Catherine declare their love for eachother
• Catherine dies
• Heathcliffs son Linton is born

Cathy

• Cathy meets Hareton
• Linton returns to Wuthering Heights
• Heathcliff imprisons Cathy and Nelly
• Edgar and Linton die

• Cathy and Hareton mary
• Heathcliff dies

Present

Linton, Heathcliff and Cathy

Hareton and Cathy

Why did Hindley despise Heathcliff?

1. Heathcliff was rude to Hindley.
2. Because his sister fell in love with Heathcliff
3. Because of his heritage
4. Because of his higher social standing

Who didn't have a relationship in this book?

1. Cathy/Linton
2. Catherine/Edgar
3. Earnshaw/Isabella
4. Cathy/Hareton

How did Heathcliff take revenge on Edgar?

1. By setting his horses free
2. By sabotaging his marriage with Catherine
3. By stealing Wuthering Heights
4. By marrying Isabella

Who did NOT die in this story?

1. Lockwood
2. Mister Earnshaw
3. Catherine
4. Linton

19th century?

The spirit of life

• 19th century 
• Relationships, morality and morals of "civilized higher circles". 

The spirit of life

• Gothic Novel 
• ''Their connection is so powerful that even death can't stop it''
• Byronic Hero

The spirit of life

• Nature against civilization
• Class in the 19th century vs class in the wuthering heights

This takes place after Edgar's

funeral

Book and film

• It shows the fearless side of Cathy
• It shows the Gothic side of the story

          

Why is this passage important?

The importance of the author/genre

• Writung under a male name
  
• The 'Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell'

The importance of the author/genre

• Masculinity and femininity
• Contrasting gender and their stereotypes
• An honest and rough description of live
• Gondal
• Masculinity > femininity
  

The importance of the author/genre

• An important contemporary novel
• Feelings and emotions
  
• Still relatable to this day
  

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