1. Gothic Unit: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Emily Bronte
19th January
Recap/analyse chapters as a class.
Analyse Catherine and her life at The Grange.
Illness within the novel (metaphor)
Homework: Essay question

2. Chapter 12
Catherine is truly ill, Isabella leaves to secretly marry Heathcliff and Edgar disowns her.
How does Nelly Dean think Catherine is using her illness?
Find key quotes

3. AO3: Critical viewpoint
Marxist: Madness is ideologically determined and puts Catherine in conflict between superstition and Christianity (Nelly) Feminist: Madness as a condition of ‘being feminine’ and weak minded. She is not a ‘proper woman’ due to her lack of domestication. (trap of femininity)

4. Gothic Unit: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Emily Bronte
21st January
Illness within the novel (metaphor)
Homework: Essay question

5. Chapters
What is the role of Isabella within these chapters? How is she treated? Discuss: Position of women within marriage and problems of women suffering from mental illness.

6. AO3/4: Interpretations and context
John Stuart Mill, 1869: “The position of women in marriage was worse than that of slaves.”
Incarcerating women as mentally ill was common. Isolated at Wuthering Heights?

7. Question:
“Entrapped, imprisoned and disempowered.” To what extent do you agree with this view of the position of women in Wuthering Heights? (40 marks)

8. Homework
Read and summarise up to Chapter 20 (Chapter 6 of volume 2)