Wuthering Heights• Out on the wiley, windy moors• We’d roll and fall in green.• You had a temper like my jealousy:• Too hot, too greedy.• How could you leave me ,• When I needed to possess you?• I hated you. I loved you, too.

• Bad dreams in the night.• They told me I was going to lose the fight,• Leave behind my wuthering, wuthering,• Wuthering heights

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy, • I’ve come home. I’m so cold!• Let me in—a—your window.• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy,• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!• Let me in—a—your window.

• Ooh, it gets dark! It gets lonely,• On the other side from you.• I pine a lot. I find the lot• Falls through without you.• I’m coming back, love.• Cruel Heathcliff, my one dream,• My only master.

• Too long I roam in the night. • I’m coming back to his side, to put it right.• I’m coming home to Wuthering, wuthering,• Wuthering Heights,

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy, • I’ve come home. I’m so cold!• Let me in—a—your window.• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy,• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!• Let me in—a—your window.

• Ooh! Let me have it.• Let me grab your soul away.• Ooh! Let me have it.• Let me grab your soul away.• You know it’s me, Cathy!

• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy, • I’ve come home. I’m so cold!• Let me in—a—your window.• Heathcliff, it’s me, Cathy,• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!• Let me in—a—your window.

• Heathcliff, It’s me, Cathy,• I’ve come home. I’m so cold!

By Emily Bronte(1818-1848)

Wuthering

Heights

• Bronte was raised in Haworth, Yorkshire, which is the setting of Wuthering Heights.

• Emily’s two oldest sisters contracted illnesses at their boarding school and died.

• Her sister Charlotte wrote Jane Eyre.

• Bronte rarely left her home town of Haworth.

• Charlotte, Emily and Anne published their poems in a collection under the names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell.

• The scenery of Haworth inspired much of Wuthering Heights.

• Bronte wrote many poems and one novel.

• Emily’s brother died and she contracted tuberculosis at his funeral.

• Emily died from this in 1848.

Historical Background• Age of Romanticism:

–Feeling rather than thinking

–Nature–Darker aspects of

human nature–Goodness does not

always triumph over darkness.

Setting• Windy moors of Haworth,

Yorkshire (wild and hostile yet starkly beautiful)

• Brown and gray• Rainy, misty, snowy• Low-growing heather• Two houses:

–Wuthering Heights (dark)

–Thrushcross Grange (light)

1772-1802

• Told from multiple points of view:– Mr. Lockwood

(Frame)– Ellen Dean,

servant– Several

Characters– Told in flashback

Point of View

Narrators

LOCKWOOD

ELLEN DEAN (NELLIE)

CATHERINE & HEATHCLIFF

Themes

• Conflict between good and evil• The nature of love (Ill-fated/Romantic)• The darkness of the human soul• Civilization versus Nature/primal passion• Revenge• Madness

Symbols• Natural scenes and

objects• Thrushcross Grange• Wuthering Heights

• Duals or Twos:

• 2 houses

• 2 Catherines• 2 love interests for

both Catherines

Motif

Diction

• Simple for the time period• Short, balanced sentences• Poetic style• Strong feeling and emotion

Main Characters

• Heathcliff:– Young gypsy

orphan who is taken in by the Earnshaws

– The Dark Hero

• Catherine Earnshaw:–Wild beautiful girl

who befriends Heathcliff and later falls in love with him.

-Hindley Earnshaw:• Catherine’s

brother who grows up disliking Heathcliff

-Edgar and Isabella Linton:Brother and sister who live in Thrushcross

Grange

Hareton Earnshaw: Son

of Hindley Earnshaw

Catherine Heathcliff:

Heathcliff’s

daughter-in-law

Linton Heathcliff: Son of Heathcliff

Joseph: Servant at W.H.

• Mr. Lockwood:– First narrator of the

story who plans to rent Thrushcross Grange

• Mrs. Ellen (Nelly) Dean:– Second narrator who

relates most of the story

– Housekeeper/servant