Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights

Marloes Bongaarts, Sanne Dekker, Fleur Dijkhuizen 
en Wiam El Mokadmi
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Wuthering Heights

Marloes Bongaarts, Sanne Dekker, Fleur Dijkhuizen 
en Wiam El Mokadmi

Slide 1 - Slide

Table of Contents
  • Author’s life
  • Summary
  • The spirit of life
  • Film and book
  • The importance of the author/genre

Slide 2 - Slide

In which century do you think this book is written?
A
18th century
B
17th century
C
16th century
D
19th century

Slide 3 - Quiz

Author's life
  • Born in 1818
  • One of 6 children 
  • Clergy daughters school
Anna, Emily and Charlotte Bronte
Bleak moorland factory

Slide 4 - Slide

Author's life
  • Studied in Brussel
  • Different pseudonyms
  • Critical reviews 

Slide 5 - Slide

What name did Emily Brönte use as alias?
A
Emile Bell
B
Ellis Brönte
C
Ellis Bell
D
Ethan Bell

Slide 6 - Quiz

  • Lockwood rents the estate thrushcross grange
  • He visits his landlord Heathcliff
  • He writes down the story Nelly tells him
Summary

Lockwood
Heathcliff
Nelly

Slide 7 - Slide

  • Mister Earnshaw lives on Wuthering Heights with two children, Catherine and Hindley
  • He brings back an orhpan named Heathcliff
  • Hindley despises the new child
  • Earnshaw sends Hindley away to college
Mister Earnshaw
Young Heathcliff
Catherine and Hindley

Slide 8 - Slide

  • Catherine and Heathcliff fall in love
  • Mister Earnshaw dies and Hindley inherits Wuthering Heights
  • Heathcliff is treated as a servant
  • Hareton is born
  • Catherine gets hurt and stays in Thruscross Grange
  • Catherine can't marry Heathcliff
  • Heathcliff flees Wuthering Heights

Slide 9 - Slide

  • Catherine and Edgar Linton marry
  • Heathcliff returns a rich man
  • Hindley dies and Heathcliff inherits Wuthering Heights
  • Heathcliff marries Isabella Linton
Edgar Linton
Hindley
Isabella Linton

Slide 10 - Slide

  • Catherine falls ill 
  • Cathy is born
  • Heathcliff and Catherine declare their love for eachother
  • Catherine dies
  • Heathcliffs son Linton is born
Cathy

Slide 11 - Slide

  • Cathy meets Hareton
  • Linton returns to Wuthering Heights
  • Heathcliff imprisons Cathy and Nelly
  • Edgar and Linton die


  • Cathy and Hareton mary
  • Heathcliff dies
Present
Linton, Heathcliff and Cathy
Hareton and Cathy

Slide 12 - Slide

Why did Hindley despise Heathcliff?
A
Heathcliff was rude to Hindley.
B
Because his sister fell in love with Heathcliff
C
Because of his heritage
D
Because of his higher social standing

Slide 13 - Quiz

Who didn't have a relationship in this book?
A
Cathy/Linton
B
Catherine/Edgar
C
Earnshaw/Isabella
D
Cathy/Hareton

Slide 14 - Quiz

How did Heathcliff take revenge on Edgar?
A
By setting his horses free
B
By sabotaging his marriage with Catherine
C
By stealing Wuthering Heights
D
By marrying Isabella

Slide 15 - Quiz

Who did NOT die in this story?
A
Lockwood
B
Mister Earnshaw
C
Catherine
D
Linton

Slide 16 - Quiz

19th century?

Slide 17 - Mind map

The spirit of life
  • 19th century 
  • Relationships, morality and morals of "civilized higher circles". 

Slide 18 - Slide

The spirit of life
  • Gothic Novel 
  • ''Their connection is so powerful that even death can't stop it''
  • Byronic Hero

Slide 19 - Slide

The spirit of life
  • Nature against civilization
  • Class in the 19th century vs class in the wuthering heights

Slide 20 - Slide

This takes place after Edgar's
funeral
Book and film

Slide 21 - Slide

Slide 22 - Video

  • It shows the fearless side of Cathy
  • It shows the Gothic side of the story
          
Why is this passage important?

Slide 23 - Slide

The importance of the author/genre
  • Writung under a male name
  • The 'Biographical Notice of Ellis and Acton Bell'

Slide 24 - Slide

The importance of the author/genre
  • Masculinity and femininity
  • Contrasting gender and their stereotypes
  • An honest and rough description of live
  • Gondal
  • Masculinity > femininity

Slide 25 - Slide

The importance of the author/genre
  • An important contemporary novel
  • Feelings and emotions
  • Still relatable to this day

Slide 26 - Slide

Any questions?

Slide 27 - Slide

Slide 28 - Link