1. WUTHERING HEIGHTS
EMILY BRONTE

2. LQ: Am I able to analyse the role of Lockwood as narrator?
Extended Essay Text 2
Wuthering Heights
Lesson 12
LQ: Am I able to analyse the role of Lockwood as narrator?

3. The big picture

4. Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
LQ: Am I able to explore the relationship between Catherine and Hareton and makes links to Catherine and Heathcliff?
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
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights

5. Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif,
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
starter
Read the first paragraph of the novel ‘1801 … as I announced my name’.
What does this tell us about Lockwood as a narrator?
Teacher note:
He is unable to read signs = unreliable.
He is an outsider, does not understand the world of the Heights.
Bases his impressions on ideology (his understanding of civility) = misunderstands Heathcliff but adds a degree of sophistication to the environment.
Has a limited vision.
LQ: Am I able to analyse the role of Lockwood as narrator?

6. Task 1: Exploring Subtext.
Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif,
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
Task 1: Exploring Subtext.
Your group should focus one of the following critical ideas (next slider).
Discuss what this quote means and how it relates to the novel. KEY QUESTION: What information is ‘not-said’ in that first paragraph?
LQ: Am I able to analyse the role of Lockwood as narrator?

7. Task 1: Exploring Subtext.
Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif,
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
Task 1: Exploring Subtext.
The use of two narrators who are unreliable or not impartial allows the reader to read the ‘not-said’ as post-structuralist critic Pierre Macherey calls it. In other words, we are able to extract information from the text which is not given explicitly.
“In Wuthering Heights the inadequacies of the perception of Lockwood/do not prevent the reader from seeming to apprehend the real nature of the relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff.” (Catherine Belsey, Critical Practice (1980) page 78)
LQ: Am I able to analyse the relationship between Catherine and Edgar?

8. Task 2 – Exploring Narrative Voice
Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif,
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
Task 2 – Exploring Narrative Voice
In pairs look over your extracts - annotate each of them with the ‘not-said’.
LQ: Am I able to analyse the role of Lockwood as narrator?

9. Task 3: Analytical paragraph.
Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif,
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
Task 3: Analytical paragraph.
How far do you agree that Lockwood is an unreliable narrator? Be ready to share wotht he rest of the class!
LQ: Am I able to analyse the role of Lockwood as narrator?

10. Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif,
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
Plenary
What kind of narrator is Lockwood?
Why has Bronte chosen to create an unreliable/unperceptive narrator?
What if the novel had been ‘written’ entirely by Lockwood?
LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship?