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Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte a book of love and hatred,terror and violence

Wuthering Heights a book of love and hatred, terror and violence Emily Bronte

Emily Bronte (1818-1848) Emily Bronte is known for her unsociability and extremely shy nature. Therefore,she remains a mysterious figure and a challenge to biographers because there are little information about her. "My sister's disposition was not naturally gregarious;circumstances favored and fostered her tendency to seclusion...Though her feeling for the people round was benevolent,intercourse with them she never sought;nor,with very few exceptions,ever experienced.And yet she knew them...she could hear of them with interest,and talk Anne,Emily and Charlotte Bronte of them with detail,minute,graphic,and accurate;but WITH them, she rarely exchanged a word."(Charlotte Bronte)

Emily Bronte （1818-1848） Anne, Emily and Charlotte Bronte • Emily Bronte is known for her unsociability and extremely shy nature. Therefore, she remains a mysterious figure and a challenge to biographers because there are little information about her. • “My sister's disposition was not naturally gregarious; circumstances favored and fostered her tendency to seclusion… Though her feeling for the people round was benevolent, intercourse with them she never sought; nor, with very few exceptions, ever experienced. And yet she knew them… she could hear of them with interest, and talk of them with detail, minute, graphic, and accurate; but WITH them, she rarely exchanged a word.” (Charlotte Bronte)

Emily Bronte How did such a shy,reclusive person write a novel full of passion and power? The fictional world was the product of fertile imagination fed by reading,discussion,and a passion for literature. Her quiet personality allowed her to ponder on the thoughts and formed very incisive understanding of love. ■ ■

Emily Bronte How did such a shy, reclusive person write a novel full of passion and power? • The fictional world was the product of fertile imagination fed by reading, discussion, and a passion for literature. • Her quiet personality allowed her to ponder on the thoughts and formed very incisive understanding of love

What makes the novel unique is its extraordinary fusion of realism and fantasy,imaginative extravagance and the everyday world. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte It is the uneven,heterogeneous nature of her fiction which catches the eye,the way it mixes Gothic,romance,fairy tale,picaresque,ghost story,melodrama and social realism. The novel contains a degree of emotional force and sophisticated narrative structure not seen previously in the history of the English novel

• What makes the novel unique is its extraordinary fusion of realism and fantasy, imaginative extravagance and the everyday world. • It is the uneven, heterogeneous nature of her fiction which catches the eye, the way it mixes Gothic, romance, fairy tale, picaresque, ghost story, melodrama and social realism. • The novel contains a degree of emotional force and sophisticated narrative structure not seen previously in the history of the English novel

1.Narrative features In Wuthering Heights Introduction Narrative Perspectives Wuthering Heights is Emily Bronte's Two major perspectives mini narratives: only novel.Written between ·Mr.Lockwood October 1845 and June 1846 Nelly Dean the housekeeper Narrative Features No authoritative narrator A series of narratorial frames both reinforce and undercut one another unreliable Narrative Time The time of the story spans 31 years.The author arranges the starting point near the end of the 1801 winter,making the story happen in flashback and sequence

Introduction Wuthering Heights is Emily Brontë's only novel. Written between October 1845 and June 1846 Narrative Perspectives Narrative Features Narrative Time Two major perspectives + mini narratives: • Mr. Lockwood • Nelly Dean the housekeeper • No authoritative narrator • A series of narratorial frames both reinforce and undercut one another • unreliable The time of the story spans 31 years. The author arranges the starting point near the end of the 1801 winter, making the story happen in flashback and sequence. 1. Narrative features In Wuthering Heights

Story Heathcliff brought into the Farnshaw family revenge Hareton and Cathy Chronological order Union of Heathcliff and Catherine

Story Chronological order Hareton and Cathy revenge Heathcliff brought into the Earnshaw family Union of Heathcliff and Catherine

Narrators Mr.Lockwood:an urban modern gentleman,a tourist who uses pompous,academic language.He is an indecisive misanthrope,a stand-in for readers. o Mrs.Dean:character at periphery;self-righteous.Her oral narrative is retold in Lockwood's writing

Narrators • Mr. Lockwood: an urban modern gentleman, a tourist who uses pompous, academic language. He is an indecisive misanthrope, a stand-in for readers. • Mrs. Dean: character at periphery; self-righteous. Her oral narrative is retold in Lockwood’s writing

Box-within-box Narrative Mr.Lockwood tells a Mr.Lockwood story told by Nelly Dean. Nelly Dean Characters' mini narration p.21 Catherine's narration p.50 Heathcliff's narration

Box-within-box Narrative Mr. Lockwood Nelly Dean Characters’ mini narration Mr. Lockwood tells a story told by Nelly Dean. p.21 Catherine’s narration p.50 Heathcliff’s narration

The complex,Chinese-boxes narrative structure:one potentially unreliable narrative is embedded within another not entirely trustworthy one,and that perhaps within another,places any such assured assessment beyond our reach. Nelly Dean:unreliable narrator who blackens him from the outset. Lockwood is one of the good liberals,a narrator as biased and befuddled as he is reliable and perceptive. Emily's work interweaves various mini-narratives to reveal a more convoluted relation between past and present,progress and regression, the time-scheme of a narrator and the time-schemes of which he or she speaks

• The complex, Chinese-boxes narrative structure: one potentially unreliable narrative is embedded within another not entirely trustworthy one, and that perhaps within another, places any such assured assessment beyond our reach. • Nelly Dean: unreliable narrator who blackens him from the outset. Lockwood is one of the good liberals, a narrator as biased and befuddled as he is reliable and perceptive. • Emily’s work interweaves various mini-narratives to reveal a more convoluted relation between past and present, progress and regression, the time-scheme of a narrator and the time-schemes of which he or she speaks

2.Gothic Elements In Wuthering Heights Gothic Style The gothic style consists on a kind of literature which features supernatural elements encounters,crumbling ruins,moonless nights,and grotesque imagery,seeking to create effects of mystery and fear. Ambiguity,chaos,darkness,irrationality and secrecy are usually present in the gothic novels.They generally show a life of pain,destruction and fear that shadow feelings of love,reason and morality among others. 01 02 03 Environment Figures Plot

Gothic Style The gothic style consists on a kind of literature which features supernatural elements encounters, crumbling ruins, moonless nights, and grotesque imagery, seeking to create effects of mystery and fear. Ambiguity, chaos, darkness, irrationality and secrecy are usually present in the gothic novels. They generally show a life of pain, destruction and fear that shadow feelings of love, reason and morality among others. 01 Environment 02 Figures 03 Plot 2. Gothic Elements In Wuthering Heights