WUTHERING
HEIGHTS
EMILY BRONTE
EXTENDED ESSAY TEXT 2
Wuthering Heights
Lesson 12
LQ: Am I able to analyse the role of
Lockwood as narrator?
THE BIG PICTURE
LQ: Am I able to explore the relationship between Catherine and Hareton and
makes links to Catherine and Heathcliff?
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
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore and
evaluate through detailed and sophisticated critical
analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning.
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,
STARTER
What does this tell us about Lockwood as a
narrator?
LQ: Am I able to analyse the role of Lockwood as narrator?
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
Read the first paragraph of the novel ‘1801
… as I announced my name’.
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,
TASK 1: EXPLORING SUBTEXT.
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?
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
Your group should focus one of the following
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,
TASK 1: EXPLORING SUBTEXT.
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
The use of two
“In Wuthering Heights
narrators who are
the inadequacies of the
unreliable or not
perception of
impartial allows the
Lockwood/do not
reader to read the ‘notprevent the reader from
said’ as postseeming to apprehend
structuralist critic Pierre
the real nature of the
Macherey calls it. In
relationship between
other words, we are
Catherine and
able to extract
Heathcliff.” (Catherine
information from the
Belsey, Critical Practice
text which is not given
(1980)
78) the relationship
explicitly.
LQ: Am
I able page
to analyse
between Catherine and Edgar?
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,
TASK 2 – EXPLORING NARRATIVE
VOICE
annotate each of them with the ‘notsaid’.
LQ: Am I able to analyse the role of Lockwood as narrator?
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
In pairs look over your extracts -
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,
TASK 3: ANALYTICAL
PARAGRAPH.
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?
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
How far do you agree that Lockwood is
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,
PLENARY
Why has Bronte chosen to create an
unreliable/unperceptive narrator?
What if the novel had been ‘written’ entirely by
Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights
What kind of narrator is Lockwood?
Lockwood?
LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Cathy and Heathcliff’s
relationship?