ILY BRONTE

EM

WUTHERING
HEIGHTS

PREPARED BY KUANYSHKYZY A.
 EMILY JANE
BRONTË
an English novelist and poet

best known for her only novel,

Wuthering Heights - a classic of
English literature.

She published under the pen name Ellis

Bell.
Wuthering Heights, published in
1847, is the best-known novel.

Gothic fiction
lyrical, prose style.
1801 in England
Wuthering Heights and
Thrushcross Grange.
 NARRATORS OF
THE STORY

MR. NELLY DEAN

LOCKWOOD
SERVANT AT
RENTS
THRUSHCROSS
THRUSHCROSS
GRANGE
GRANGE
 BRIEF PLOT OF THE STORY
Heathcliff is adopted by Mr. Earnshaw,
Heathcliff and Catherine are raised together and start to fall in love with
each other.
After the death of Mr. Earnshaw, Heathcliff leaves
Wuthering Heights in order to start working to earn
money.

Catherine marries Edgar Linton in order to be

introduced in theworld of materialism,

After an absence of 3 years, Heathcliff returns with

the desire of destroying Edgar, blaming him on
losing Catherine.
 MAIN CHARACTERS

N
O
TI
AC
G
Heathcliff Edgar Linton

N
Catherine Earnshaw

SI
brought to WH as a a pampered,

RI
a wild girl growing up
young boy by old Mr. somewhat spoiled boy
at WH; befriends
Earnshaw; has a wild, living at TG; polite and
Heathcliff as a child
uncontrollable nature well educated
 Main idea
Clash of elemental forces

-storm -calm
Wuthering Heights and the Earnshaws Thrushcross Grange and the Lintons

Relationships: dark, stormy, twisted

Elements of the Gothic novel
a castle, (ruined or haunted)

death and madness

terrifying events

taboo and sensational topics

a villain or villain-hero (Byronic hero)

a heroine wooed by both a good and a

dangerous suitor

revenge
 Stylistic devices
Similes
1. "We all kept as mute as mice a full half-hour…"
(V chapter).

2. "And her eyes sparkled as bright as diamonds"

(VI chapter).

3. "My love for Linton is like the foliage in the

woods. Time will change it, I am well aware, as
winter changes the trees, my love for Heathcliff
resembles the eternal rocks beneath a source of
little visible delight, but necessary." (IX chapter)
 Stylistic devices
Metaphors
1. "Joseph and I joined at an unsociable
meal, seasoned with reproofs..."(VII
chapter).

2. "The stab of a knife could not inflict a

worse pang than he suffered at seeing his
lady vexed"(X chapter).
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