1. WUTHERING HEIGHTS EMILY BRONTE

2. EXTENDED ESSAY TEXT 2 Wuthering Heights  Lesson 8  LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship?

3. THE BIG PICTURE

4. 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 analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel? Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights

5. STARTER 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 analyse Bronte’s presentation of Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship? There are many different types of love in WH, which of these would you assign to Catherine and Heathcliff: Transcendent Constructed about a lost object of desire Domestic Maternal Social Romantic Religious Self-destructive Violent

6. TRUE LOVE?  Read through the quotations on the sheet and select the ones which match the words from the starter that you chose to describe Catherine and Heathcliff’s love.  How do your findings compare to the relationship between Othello and Desdemona?  What links can you find between both sets of characters? Look at language, form and structure – can you draw comparisons between any of these aspects? 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 analyse Bronte’s presentation of Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship?

7. YOUR FINDINGS… 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 analyse Bronte’s presentation of Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship? EXT: how does form affect your interpretations of these characters?

8. PLENARY – HOW FAR DO YOU AGREE? 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 analyse Bronte’s presentation of Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship? “Catherine’s declaration of love attempts to recover a lost state of being even as it claims that this lost unity will endure forever… Catherine and Heathcliff’s tragic tale depends on their being separated” Jay Clayton, Romantic Vision and the Novel.