Movie Trailers

Quick Write!
In your notebooks, write about how you would adapt Wuthering Heights to film:

❏ What elements of the different movie trailers we watched would you

keep?
❏ Who would you cast in the lead roles?
❏ What scenes must be included and why? Are there parts of the book the
movie could function without?
❏ What is the setting? Is it set during a different time period? Explain why
your chosen setting is important.
 Emily Jane Brontë
❏ (1818-1848): Born and died in Yorkshire, England
❏ Wuthering Heights published in 1847
❏ Wuthering Heights not well-received
❏ 1900’s Gender Discrimination
❏ Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell published in 1846
❏ Only two copies sold
❏ Influenced by contemporaries like Mary Shelley
❏ Mask of Anarchy
❏ Gondal
❏ Cause of death: TB

Hewish, J. Emily Brontë: A Critical and Biographical Study. Macmillan and Co.,
London: 1969. Emily Brontë, circa 1833
“Remembrance”-Emily
Brontë
● What is the tone of the poem?
● What is the central theme?
● Who is the audience?