Wuthering Heights
 Lesson 7
 LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel?

LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel?
Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore and evaluate through detailed and sophisticated critical
analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning.
Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted.
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

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,
Throughout the novel Cathy goes through changes.
Separate the descriptions on your sheet that relate to each stage in her life:
1) as a child
2) after she has been to Thrushcross Grange
3) later when she is older and married to Edgar, and
4) just before she dies.
EXT: do you notice any lexical patterns?
LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel?

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,
Use the grids completed in lesson to answer the following question:
How does Bronte present the changing character of
Catherine in the novel?
Spend no more than 45 minutes maximum in writing this.
LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel?

Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes).
Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18 th /early 19th century.
Look over your quotations grid…
Add your quotations to the grid, and fill in all other sections to build your analysis.
LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel?

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
How does Bronte present Cathy through:
 Description
 Dialogue
 reaction to other characters
 Reactions of other characters
EXT: how does she compare/contrast to the characters in Othello?
LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel?