Senior Project Review
Wuthering Heights Focus
Final results Tuesday
Self Reflection/ Peer Reflection
Discussion
Character Patterns and Theme
Final judging sheets are coming in,
Results Tuesday
• What comments did you receive?
• Self grade and Peer grade
• Overall comments: those who watched presentations did
better overall
• Judges want to see more focus on the paper, process –
how you are affected by the Senior Project
• Judges were impressed by how much you have grown
• Final comments:
• Make sure you focus on each part of the project, do not
put all of your eggs in one basket
• CONGRATULATIONS!!!
Patterns in literature
• When characters develop readers notice
patterns in their behavior, triggers set of
similar responses and reactions.
• To recognize the patterns of characters
you must look at the patterns found in the
genre.
• Gothic Literature: elements associated
with the Gothic novel
Elements of the Gothic Novel
What did you find? Connect the patterns of genre
to the novel
• Mysterious/exotic
• Complex characters,
complex plot
• Contrasting elements
• Details
• Morbid setting of main
plot/ pleasant setting of
sub-plot
• Villains/ angels
• foils
• Rolling moors, limited
vision, What is beyond
the hills?
• Heathcliff: love for
Catherine, hate for
Linton, despise
Catherine: death scene
• Wuthering Heights/
Thrushcross Grange
• Hareton/Linton
• Joseph/Nelly Dean
Patterns of genre cont.
• Emphasis on character
reaction, not realistic
nature
• Perverse and unnatural
• Pleasure within pain
• Relies on reader’s
interpretation to create
meaning, meaning is not
inherent
• Dark- rejection of reason
• Grotesque elements as
seen in character, setting,
and plot
• Heathcliff: death of
Catherine promotes
further revenge seeking
actions Linton death of
Catherine promotes
rejection of quality of life,
distance from family,
depression
• Catherine: why reject the
man she loves to marry
another to help the
original? Is Cathy
following the same
pattern as her mother?
Narrator
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Who are the narrators?
Who is the principle narrator?
What bias does this add to the novel?
Why choose this narrator?
Critical Themes
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Death, dying
Love (What type/ how displayed?)
Revenge: Reaction over reason
Duality: Wuthering Heights/Thrushcross
Grange Lintons/Heathcliff, Isabelle/
Heathcliff, Cathy/Catherine,
Hareton/Linton
• Evil overrides good
• Pleasure with pain
Patterns in opposition
• Chapter 17, close to 18 reactions of fathers towards
offspring (179)
• Chapter 9 Catherine’s reasons for marrying: focus on
irony and contradiction
• Chapter 10: Arrival of Heathcliff at Thrushcross Grange
• Nelly cares for Hareton (8), Nelly cares for Linton (19)
• Two sides of Catherine (8) (11)
• Reflection of Heathcliff’s change, development in the
end: control in and out, similarities to Catherine, (14) (3334 )
• Cathy similarities to Catherine (18)