Wuthering Heights Techniques focus Characterization: the act of creating and developing a character

Wuthering Heights Techniques focus Direct characterization: the writer tells / states what a character’s traits are.

Indirect characterization: the writer reveals indirectly what a character’s traits are: * through what a character says, thinks, or does * through a description of the character’s appearance * through a character’s statements, thoughts, or actions * through other others’ statements, thoughts, or actions relating to the character

Imagery: descriptive language used in literature to create sensory experiences (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch). Imagery enriches writing by making it more vivid, setting a tone, suggesting emotions, and guiding readers’ reactions.  

Symbolism and motifs in Wuthering Heights

The moors play an important part in establishing the mood of Wuthering Heights. .

wet, wild, and relatively Moors are open areas, wet, wild, and relatively infertile. The Moors

As the novel opens, Lockwood fears walking through the moors at night.

Catherine and Heathcliff spend much of their childhood escaping to and rambling on the moors, symbolizing their wild inclinations.

Catherine and Heathcliff are buried on the moors because 0f their fondness for the wildness they represent.

The Moors also represent danger.

Nelly and Catherine are feared to have drowned in the moors. Just as the moors represent danger and are difficult to navigate, the love between Catherine and Heathcliff endangers everyone associated with them through their recklessness and becomes difficult to figure out.

G H O S T

Lockwood is awakened by Catherine’s ghost as he slumbers at Wuthering Heights.

Heathc Heathcliff yearns for the past and longs for the ghost of Catherine to haunt him. Heathcliff craves the past And longs for the ghost Of Catherine to haunt him.

At the end of the novel, rumors persist that Catherine and Heathcliff roam the moors at night.

WEATHER

The extreme wind prevalent at Wuthering Heights symbolizes the hardness of its inhabitants

Wind and rain or sleet are present when old Mr. Earnshaw dies, when Heathcliff leaves, when Catherine is buried, and when Heathcliff dies.

Windows and Doors Wuthering Heights characters are often impeded by locked windows and doors.

LoLLoc Lockwood finds Wuthering Heights locked as he arrives.

Nelly and Catherine are locked in rooms at Wuthering Heights with windows too small to escape through.

Heathcliff is locked outside Wuthering Heights and can’t get in through the locked door or narrow window.

At other times windows are intentionally left open

Heathcliff opens a window to let Catherine’s ghost enter. He

Nelly opens a window to let Heathcliff enter Catherine’s room at Thrushcross Grange.

Catherine’s Locket Catherine’s Locket Catherine has on her neck a locket containing a lock of Edgar's hair. After seeing the dead Catherine, Heathcliff removes it, throws it on the ground, and replaces it with his own hair. His act symbolizes his desire to supplant Edgar and his belief that Catherine is rightfully his. Nelly takes Edgar's lock of hair, intertwines it with Heathcliff's lock of hair, and puts it into the locket, symbolizing how the two nemesis' lives intertwine.

Books and Education

Works Cited Lorcher, Trent. "Symbolism in Wuthering Heights." Bright Hub. Web. 12 Mar. 2010. “The Reader’s Guide to Emily Jane Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights.’” Web. 30 Mar. 2010.