Y13 TEXTS AND GENRES LITB3 - 'WUTHERING HEIGHTS'

 I know that you've all got plenty of work to do, but I don't want any of you to lose track of the work we've already done on 'Wuthering Heights'- so try to re-read the first three chapters, make notes of some of the most Gothic quotations, and also make an attempt to read the introduction to the novel. We'll discuss both in either the 1-2-1s on Monday or in the revision class on Wednesday afternoon - we really need to keep up the momentum!

Don't forget Joyce Carol Oates' essay on 'Wuthering Heights' just follow the link: http://jco.usfca.edu/wuthering.html

As Lockwood  informs us, the readers, the name of Wuthering Heights is in itself portentous: '"Wuthering" being a significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed in stormy weather.'   The location of the house places upon those who live there, a symbolic weight of disturbance, disharmony and harshness.  'A perfect misanthropist's Heaven.'