WUTHERING HEIGHTS EMILY BRONTE

EXTENDED ESSAY TEXT 2 Wuthering Heights  Lesson 3  LQ: Am I able to identify the themes of Wuthering Heights?

THE BIG PICTURE

Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore and evaluate through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning. Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, and comment on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted. B4 B3 B2 LQ: Am I able to identify the themes of Wuthering Heights? Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights

STARTER: WHO IS TALKING ABOUT WHOM? Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18 th /early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif, Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights LQ : Am I able to identify the themes of Wuthering Heights? “mischievous and wayward” “He’d crush you like a sparrow’s egg/if he found you a troublesome charge” “You’re type is not a lamb, it’s a sucking leveret” “he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man” EXT: How are these quotations linked?

IT’S ONLY WORDS  Read through the quotation cards; how many different ways can they be grouped? Think about:  Repeated words or phrases  Images that have similar connotations  Strong contrasts Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18 th /early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif, Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights LQ: Am I able to identify the themes of Wuthering Heights? EXT: Are there any other ways that seem to be interesting or revealing?

Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18 th /early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif, Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights LQ: Am I able to identify the themes of Wuthering Heights?  The clash of elemental forces  Striving for transcendence  Childhood and family  Confinement and escape  Communication  Revenge  Abusive patriarchs (father figures)  Suffering  Displacement, dispossession and exile  Love and hate  The tension between economic interests and social class THEMES Listed opposite are some of the key aspects and themes of Wuthering Heights. Colour code your quotes to show how Bronte’s imagery presents these themes.

PLENARY  As groups feed back their findings, add to your own notes. Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18 th /early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif, Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights LQ: Can I understand the lives of the Brontes and Victorian England