1. Wuthering Heights
Chapters 6-8

2. Chapter 6
Read together How does Bronte use comparative settings within Chapter 6 to convey power?

3. How does Bronte use comparative settings within Chapter 6 to convey power?
Ruth Robins: Literary Feminisms (2000)
“Thrushcross Grange, across the moor, home of the Linton family, represents the standards of patriarchal culture which will be triumphant at the end of the story, but which the novel itself, through its sympathies for Cathy and Heathcliff, implicitly attacks.”

4. Heaven and Hell
Grange= splendid, cultivated and civilised atmosphere, children petted, chandelier
Heights= rough indiscipline, anarchic, children beaten
Metaphysical opposition between storm and calm?
DOGS? CAPTURED BY THE GRANGE?

5. Gilbert and Gubar: ‘Madwoman in the Attic’
The violence that one associates with the Heights is no less present at The Grange. Catherine is ‘seized’ by the Grange.
Terry Eagleton: the more property one has, the more ferociously one needs to protect it.

6. Chapter 7:
Catherine returns from her five week stay at Thrushcross Grange as a lady. Heathcliff has been debased by Hindley during her absence.
“A very dignified person.”
“Nelly, make me decent, I’m going to be good.”
“I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!”
“Were I in your place, I would frame high notions of my birth.”

7. Chapter 7: Catherine returns from her five-week stay at Thrushcross Grange, transformed into a lady. Heathcliff has been further debased by Hindley.

8. Comparison of setting
Create an Estate Agents details for either Wuthering Heights or Thrushcross Grange.
Use quotes from the novel within your details to add authenticity.

9. Chapter 8:
Hindley’s son Hareton is born. Frances dies of consumption. The relationship between Catherine and Edgar is developed.
“For himself, he grew desperate: his sorrow was of that kind that will not lament.”
“She did turn out a haughty, headstrong creature! I own I did not like her.”
“The crosses are for the evenings you have spent with the Lintons, the dots for those spent with me.”
“…greatly shocked at the double fault of falsehood and violence which his idol had committed.”

10. Transgression Catherine’s unruly behaviour
Transgresses the boundaries of good behaviour
Nelly’s slap?