Wuthering Heights

Published in 1847

Wuthering Heights Published in 1847 Elements of Romanticism / Victorian / Realism

Wuthering Heights Published in 1847 Elements of Romanticism / Victorian / Realism Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)

Wuthering Heights Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)  emotion and reason

Wuthering Heights Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)  emotion and reason  wild excess and dignified restraint

Wuthering Heights Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)  emotion and reason  wild excess and dignified restraint  physical and spiritual

Wuthering Heights Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)  emotion and reason  wild excess and dignified restraint  physical and metaphysical  Dionysian and Apollonian

Wuthering Heights Novel is built upon dichotomies (oppositions, contradictions, extremities)  emotion and reason  wild excess and dignified restraint  physical and metaphysical  Dionysian and Apollonian  innocence and experience

Wuthering Heights Thus, story is fraught with instability, tension, turbulence, conflict

Wuthering Heights Thus, story is fraught with instability, tension, turbulence, conflict A study of love, grief, revenge, social class, abuse, identity

Wuthering Heights Structured as Frame Story

Wuthering Heights Structured as Frame Story (story within story)

Wuthering Heights Structured as Frame Story (story within story)  External Narrator - Lockwood

Wuthering Heights Structured as Frame Story (story within story)  External Narrator – Lockwood  Internal Narrator – Ellen Dean (Nelly)

Wuthering Heights Structured as Frame Story (story within story)  External Narrator – Lockwood  Internal Narrator – Ellen Dean (Nelly) Unorthodox, distorted chronology

Wuthering Heights Unorthodox, distorted chronology  in medias res

Wuthering Heights Unorthodox, distorted chronology  in medias res  retrospective narration

Wuthering Heights Unorthodox, distorted chronology  in medias res  retrospective narration Two movements – two generations

Wuthering Heights Unorthodox, distorted chronology  in medias res  retrospective narration Two movements – two generations Gothic

Wuthering Heights Unorthodox, distorted chronology  in medias res  retrospective narration Two movements – two generations Gothic - story that features elements of horror, supernatural, pervasive gloom, violence, and a preoccupation with death.

Wuthering Heights Geography and location are critical

Wuthering Heights Geography and location are critical houses

Wuthering Heights Geography and location are critical houses moors

Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights is “a romance that brilliantly challenges the basic presumptions of the ‘romantic’; a gothic that evolves—with absolutely inevitable grace—into its temperamental opposite; a parable of innocence and loss, and childhood’s necessary defeat.”