Gothic Unit: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Emily Bronte Lesson 2: Chapters 2 and 3 Lockwood’s expectations of setting and Yorkshire conventions The supernatural Psycho analytical interpretations

Quiz Memory test for first three chapters

Chapter Two Lockwood repeats his visit to Wuthering Heights and meets Hareton and Catherine Heathcliff. Lockwood is obliged to spend the night due to adverse weather conditions.

Yorkshire conventions Structural and social differences Lockwood’s expectations Yorkshire conventions Desire to dine at 5pm.

‘Yorkshire’ glossary Whet are ye for? What do you want? I’ t’ fowld In the field Ut’ laithe In the barn Flaysome Fearful Discussed Ate Un war And worse A nowt A nothing, useless Agait afoot Nobbut Strictly; nothing but, no one but Shoo She Wisht! Hush!

Point of view and reliability How reliable is Lockwood as a narrator? 10 minute response. Unreliable observer (dead rabbits/cushion of cats) Antagonistic behaviour towards Hareton.

Chapter 3 Lockwood sleeps in a forbidden, secret room, and encounters the ghost of Catherine, much to Heathcliff’s distress.

Text within a text/ bed within a library WH provides much intertextuality including biblical quotations, Catherine’s diary and letters. Palimpsest= a text that is overwritten with other narrative and messages.

Critical approach: J. Hillis Miller (deconstructivist) Palimpsestic nature of the texts= each text is a commentary on the previous one. Catherine’s diary described by Lockwood Diary written in margin of Branderham’s sermon Sermon is commentary of New Testament (Jesus asking followers for forgiveness, parable form)

Dreams Write a summary of both dreams.

Psychoanalytical reading Dreams= thinking through the forbidden. In her childhood, Bronte was told supernatural stories from the Northern servants. Novel itself is a dream, a fiction of the mind? Boundaries between the self and world are broken down.

Homework How has Bronte presented the supernatural within chapters 1-3 of Wuthering Heights?