• Out on the wiley, windy moors
• We’d roll and fall in green.
• You had a temper like my jealousy:
• Too hot, too greedy.
• How could you leave me ,
• When I needed to possess you?
• I hated you. I loved you, too.

• Bad dreams in the night.
• They told me I was going to lose the fight,
• Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering,
• Wuthering heights

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy,
• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!
• Let me in—a—your window.
• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy,
• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!
• Let me in—a—your window.

• Ooh, it gets dark! It gets lonely,
• On the other side from you.
• I pine a lot. I find the lot
• Falls through without you.
• I’m coming back, love.
• Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream,
• My only master.

• Too long I roam in the night.
• I’m coming back to his side, to put it right.
• I’m coming home to Wuthering, wuthering,
• Wuthering Heights,

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy,
• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!
• Let me in—a—your window.
• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy,
• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!
• Let me in—a—your window.

• Ooh! Let me have it.
• Let me grab your soul away.
• Ooh! Let me have it.
• Let me grab your soul away.
• You know it’s me, Cathy!

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy,
• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!
• Let me in—a—your window.
• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy,
• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!
• Let me in—a—your window.
• Heathcliff, It’s me, Cathy,
• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!

•
Emily grew up in a parsonage in the town of
Haworth.
•
Her mother died of cancer when Emily was only three.
•
Emily was home schooled until she attended the
Clergy Daughters’ School at Cowan Bridge for one year. The conditions were so horrendous there that her two older sisters who had already been attending the school, Elizabeth and Maria, died of tuberculosis as a result. Fortunately though, Emily was taken home to be homeschooled once again, but this time by her father’s sister, Elizabeth Branwell.

• Emily’s relationship with her father was far from close-knit. Her father dined alone and his physical presence often remained absent from her life.
• Although he wasn’t always there for them, Emily’s father did encourage creativity and artistic goals to his children. On her spare time when she was not being homeschooled by her aunt Elizabeth, Emily and her remaining siblings created a world of imagination.

• Bronte rarely left her home town of
Haworth.

• Charlotte, Emily and Anne published their poems in a collection under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.
• The scenery of
Haworth inspired much of Wuthering
Heights.

• Bronte wrote many poems and one novel, Wuthering
Heights.

• Unsanitary conditions in Emily’s home and contaminated drinking water contributed to the Tuberculosis she was diagnosed with, ironically on the day of her only brother’s funeral.
•
Emily was offered medical assistance plenty of times during her sickness, but refused help every single time. The disease took it’s toll on her on and she passed away
December 19, 1848.

• Age of Romanticism:
–Feeling rather than thinking
–Nature
–Darker aspects of human nature
–Goodness does not always triumph over darkness.

• Characteristics:
– A castle, sometimes ruined or haunted
– Other sinister, ruined buildings
– Extreme landscapes and weather
– Death and madness
– Omens

– Ancestral curses
– Terrifying events
– Taboo or sensational topics
– Suggestion of the supernatural
– A villain or villain-hero driven by passion
– A hero whose true identity is not known until the end
– A curious or persecuted heroine
– A heroine wooed by both a good and dangerous suitor
– Revenge

1772-1802
• Windy moors of Haworth,
Yorkshire (wild and hostile yet starkly beautiful)
• Brown and gray
• Rainy, misty, snowy
• Low-growing heather
• Two houses:
– Wuthering Heights
(dark)
– Thrushcross Grange
(light)

• Told from multiple points of view:
– Mr. Lockwood
(Frame)
– Ellen Dean, servant
– Several
Characters
– Told in flashback

LOCKWOOD
ELLEN DEAN (NELLIE)
CATHERINE &
HEATHCLIFF

• Catherine and Heathcliff’s passion for one another seems to be the center of
Wuthering Heights.
• It is stronger and more lasting than any other emotion displayed in the novel, and that it is the source of most of the major conflicts that structure the novel’s plot.

Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based on their shared perception that they are identical.
Catherine declares, famously,
“I am Heathcliff,”
Given that Catherine and Heathcliff’s love is based upon their refusal to change over time.

• Conflict between good and evil
• The nature of love (Ill-fated/Romantic)
• The darkness of the human soul
• Civilization versus Nature/primal passion
• Revenge
• Madness

• Natural scenes and objects
• Thrushcross Grange
• Wuthering Heights
• Duals or Twos:
•
2 houses
•
2 Catherines
•
2 love interests for both Catherines

• Wide, wild expanses, high but somewhat soggy, and thus infertile.
• Moorland cannot be cultivated, and its uniformity makes navigation difficult.
• The moors serve very well as symbols of the wild threat posed by nature. As the setting for the beginnings of Catherine and Heathcliff’s bond (the two play on the moors during childhood),
• the moorland transfers its symbolic associations onto the love affair

• Ghosts appear throughout Wuthering Heights, as they do in most other works of Gothic fiction.
• Brontë always presents them in such a way that whether they really exist remains ambiguous.
• Whether or not the ghosts are “real,” they symbolize the manifestation of the past within the present, and the way memory stays with people, permeating their day-to-day lives.

The Conflict between
Nature and Culture
• In
Wuthering Heights,
Brontë constantly plays nature and culture against each other.
• Nature is represented by the Earnshaw family, and by Catherine and Heathcliff in particular.
• These characters are governed by their passions, not by reflection or ideals of civility.

• Correspondingly, the house where they live
Wuthering Heights comes to symbolize a similar wildness.
• On the other hand, Thrushcross Grange and the Linton family represent culture, refinement, convention, and cultivation.

• The gentry held a very fragile social position even if they had servants and often large estates.
• They didn’t have TITLES like the aristocrats.
• A man might see himself as a gentleman but find, that his neighbours did not share this view

• A discussion of whether or not a man was really a gentleman would consider such questions as:
• how much land he owned,
• how many tenants and servants he had,
• how he spoke,
• whether he kept horses and a carriage, and whether his money came from land or “trade”.

• The Lintons are relatively firm in their gentry status but nonetheless take great pains to prove this status through their behaviors.

• The Earnshaws, on the other hand, rest on much shakier ground socially.
• They do not have a carriage,
• they have less land,
• and their house resembles that of a
“homely, northern farmer” and not that of a gentleman.

•
:
– Young gypsy orphan who is taken in by the
Earnshaws
– The Dark Hero

• He is mysterious
• Dark skin, curly hair – almost like a foreigner.
• He’s the classic outsider
• Wild manners
• Earthy sensibility

• In contact with elements
• He’s passionate
• He has sexual power of attraction.
• He’s devilish but
• He has an enormous capacity to love and be loved

•
– Wild beautiful girl who befriends
Heathcliff and later falls in love with him.

Hindley
Earnshaw:
• Catherine’s brother who grows up disliking
Heathcliff
Edgar and
Isabella Linton:
Brother and sister who live in Thrushcross
Grange

Hareton Earnshaw : Son of Hindley Earnshaw
Catherine Heathcliff :
Heathcliff’s daughter-in-law
Linton Heathcliff: Son of Heathcliff
Joseph: Servant at W.H.

– First narrator of the story who plans to rent Thrushcross
Grange
– Second narrator who relates most of the story
– Housekeeper/servant