This is a PDF file we created last year to give our colloquium in Literature I.

1. Wuthering Heights
B Y E M I L Y B R O N T Ë
Authors:
Olié Clara, Bailo Ailén, Depetris Marianela

2. Emily Brontë
She was born in England in 1818
She lived in Thornton, Yorkshire
isolated and surrounded by moors
Her environment influenced her writing
She began writing Wuthering Heights in 1845
In 1847 the novel was published under
the pseudonym "Ellis Bell"
She died of tuberculosis when she was 30 years
old (1948)

3. Plot Overview

4. Romanticism
Europe, near the end of 18th century.
Strong emotion Aesthetic experience.
Influenced by: theory of evolution and
uniformitarianism.
Reaction against Industrial Revolution,
Enlightenment, scientific rationalization of nature.
Interested in: uniqueness of the individual.
Art and narrative: to escape population growth,
urban spread and industrialism.

5. Romanticism
Individual imagination: freedom.
Romanticism persuit for value of beauty.
Reason is emphasized and will stressed = Reaction
with Emotion

6. Romanticism in Wuthering Heights
Ruin, decay, chaoes, and priviliged irrationality and passion
over rationality and reason.
Lockwood's nightmare: "... my fingers closed on the
fingers of a little, ice-cold hand! The intense of horror of
nightmare came over me". (Chapter 3, page 23)
The moor: desolate, wide and infertile place.

7. Romanticism in Wuthering Heights
Death occurs in abundance.
Characters: act and react irrationally.
Characters' actions: inexplicable.

8. N a t u r e a n d L a n d s c a p e
Setting of isolation, grandeaur and fear.
The sublime.
''Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at
all times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north
wind blowing over the edge, by the excessive slant of a
few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range
of gaunt thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as
if craving alms of the sun.'' (Chapter 1, page 2)

9. C o m p l e x
C h a r a c t e r s
Difficult to understand.
Changing Characters.

10. D e a t h a n d
S u p e r n a t u r a l
Supernatural elements depicted in Romantic
novels
''So much the worse for me that I am strong. Do I want
to live? What kind of living will it be when you--oh,
God! would you like to live with your soul in the
grave?'' (Chapter 15, page 155)

11. C u l t u r e a n d N a t u r e
Thrushcross Grange
Wuthering Heights

12. C u l t u r e a n d N a t u r e
Hareton Earnshaw vs. Linton Earnshaw
Catherine Earnshaw vs. Isabella Linton
Hareton Earnshaw vs. Cathy Linton

13. C u l t u r e a n d N a t u r e
Many characters features from both sides.
Hareton Earnshaw
Nature and Civilization
Catherine Earnshaw

14. C u l t u r e a n d N a t u r e
Wuthering Heights
wild, windy moors
stormy, coldness, dark scene
They do activities outside
in the moors
Linked to aggression and violence
Thrushcross Grange
calm, orderly
refined inhabitants
Characters perform quiet
and solitary activities
Linked to comfort and
civilization

15. T h e B y r o n i c h e r o
Developed in 19th century by Lord Byron.
Byronic Hero compared with Romantic Hero.
Heathcliff as Byronic Hero:
rejected by society
emotionally traumatized
violent

16. T h e B y r o n i c h e r o
Heathcliff as Byronic Hero:
weak and submissive
stigmatized
self-destructive
Catherine as Byronic Heroine:
manipulative
passionate

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