Walk around the classroom, and
read the prose analysis essays.
List the pros and cons on each
sheet.
A
literary movement is a trend in writing that
holds similar characteristics/themes
Postmodernism (1960-?)
Modernism (1900-1960)
Realism & Naturalism (1850-1900)
Romanticism (1800-1870)
MODERNISM

Master Narrative & Grand
POST MODERNISM

Theories of Life

Faith in social and cultural

unity, hierarchies of socialclass and ethnic/national
values

Belief in technology

Local/contingent Narratives
& Theories
Social and cultural
pluralism, disunity, unclear
bases for social/national
/ethnic unity.
Questioning technology
MODERNISM



Sense of unified self;
"individualism“
Idea of "the family" as
central unit of social
order: model of the
middle-class, nuclear
family.
POSTMODERNISM


Order

Sense of fragmentation
and decentered self;
multiple, conflicting
identities.
Alternative family units,
alternatives to middleclass marriage model,
multiple identities for
couplings and
childraising
Fragmentation
MODERNISM

Rise of Automation= Man
conquering God!
POSTMODERNISM

Civil Rights Movement =
New Voices Heard
• Cars!
• Phones!
• Flight!

World Wars = Good v. Evil
• Man was ultimate evil, not a
devil
• So….Man could be Good

Rise of Globalization = New
Understanding of the
“other”
ROMANTICISM


the idea of nature as a
powerful spiritual force
REALISM/NATURALISM

the descriptions of the
countryside



Reality closely detailed, even
at the expense of a well-made
plot
a constant, elevated emotional
level and passion
a desire to rise above the
limitations of ordinary human
existence

Character is more important
than action with complex
ethical choices as subject.
Class is important
ROMANTICISM




REALISM/NATURALISM
a strong interest in death

a portrayal of opposites,
including escape and pursuit,
calmness and turbulence,
upper and lower classes, and
suffering and peace.

isolation, both emotional and
geographical
elements of the supernatural

Diction is natural vernacular,
not romanticized.
Objective POV preferred
Realistic novels avoid the
sensational, fantastic, and
dramatic elements
ROMANTICIM



Industrial Revolution in
Europe = fear of
machines/change
Rise of cities = renewed
focus on the sublimity of
nature
Reaction “Rationalism” =
stress strong emotion as the
source of beauty, art, and
knowledge.
REALISM/NATURALISM


After the Civil War =
Southern “Romantic”
Aristocracy was NOT cool
Establishment of
Urbanization and
Industrialization =
awareness of class and
poverty
 “A
& P”
 “Interpreter
 Modernism
of
 Post-
Modernism
Maladies”
 “Hills
Like White
Elephants”
 Realism
 “The
 Realism
Story of an
Hour”
 “The Destructors”
 Post-Modernism
 “Young
Goodman
 Romanticim
Brown”
 “Miss
Brill”
 “Welding
with
 Realism
 PostModernism
Children”
 “Everyday
Use”
 “Civil War”
 Postmodernism
 Postmodernism
 “Gilded
Six-Bits”
(1933)
 “A
Jury of Her Peers”
(1918)
 Not
modernism….
but Harlem
Renaissance
 Not
modernism…
but after the
suffragist movement
 Sentences
that are extraordinarily complex
and involved. Often difficult for a reader to
follow.
“He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and
previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the
unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with
peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And
we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another,
with the same wind to twist it!‘”
Read Chpts 1-2
Homework: Read Chpts 3-4
Review the first two pages of the novel, and then answer:
A. Who is speaking, and to whom does he speak?
B. What do we know about the relationship between the two men?
C. When the narrator says “I have just returned from a visit to my
landlord,” to where has he returned? And from where?
 Who’s Who?
 Who’s Where?
 Who’s
in Charge?”
GROUP 1

GROUP 2-6
Examine the two locations

Lockwood
• Thrushcross Grange

Heathcliff

Joseph

Mrs. Heathcliff

Hareton Earnshaw
• Wuthering Heights
THRUSHCROSS GRANGE
WUTHERING HEIGHTS
As you read, identify how characters move & change power, and
what social restraints affect them.
Chpt 5-6
 circa
1847.
 during
a time when capitalism and the
Industrial Revolution were the dominant
forces in the British economy and society.
 led
to violence –
Groups opposed to the growing
industrialization of England, such as the
Luddites, engaged in violent riots,
destroying wool and cotton mills.
 affected
concepts of “wealth” –
While wealth had traditionally been
measured by land ownership, the
eighteenth century had begun a trend
toward a cash-based economy.
 created
a middle class –
The Industrial Revolution created a middle
class that was in many ways more
economically powerful than its landowning
superiors (gentry).
 caused
roles of social classes to waver –
The power of yeomen, or the respectable
farming class, as well as the traditional
power-holding gentry was challenged by
the newly wealthy capitalists.
Each of these classes is represented in the
novel by various characters.
 Hareton
is a member of the respectable
farming class
 the
Lintons are members of the gentry
 Heathcliff
makes his fortune (somewhat
mysteriously) as a capitalist
 The
changing notion of a gentleman and the
shifting relationship between the classes are
found in Wuthering Heights when a gentry
member marries a new capitalist, a union
that would never have occurred if not for the
changing status of the capitalists.
 As
the economic power of the new capitalists
grew, so did their demand for political power.
With the increase in political power came the
movement for social acceptance.
 Wealthy
industrialists challenged the
traditional definition of a gentleman and
claimed the right to be called gentleman by
right of birth, but he also needed to possess an
upstanding moral character.
 1757:
the year of Hindley’s Birth
• Early start of the Seven Years War involving
France and England, fought in the colonies and
Europe
 1803: the
year of Heathcliff’s Death
• The Colonies have become a free nation…
• England declares war on France again…
• Ireland is rebelling…
 Mark
the events and dates for each
character
• Ex. 1801—Lockwood meets with Heathcliff
 If
you see a date, research what was
going on in England/the World at that
date
• 1801—United Kingdom is formed with Ireland
Anticipation Guide


FAMILY HISTORY AND
SIBLING RIVALRY
 REVENGE
ROMANTIC OR ILLFATED LOVE
 NATURE VERSUS
CIVILIZATION
Read Chpts 7-8
Begin tracking themes in the novel
After Author’s Presentation:
What elements from Bronte’s life
are apparent in the novel?
On the board, write who narrates
each chapter so far
Mr. Lockwood
Ellen (Nelly) Dean
Lockwood
 Renter of Thrushcross
Grange
 Male
 Formally educated
 city man; affluent
 an “outsider”
Nelly
 Longtime servant of the
Earnshaws
 Female
 Self-educated
 a local (never traveled)
 a participant
What is the most interesting part of the story so far?
1.
You may choose any character in the
story.
2.
You may choose any event up to the end
of chapter 14.
3.
Ghost Chapter is due next Monday—
along with reading chpts 9-14.