Wuthering Heights Emily Bront

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Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
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Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

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Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë
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Wuthering Heights Introduction
Is true love stronger than death?
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Wuthering Heights Introduction
In the late 1700s, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up
together at Wuthering Heights, Cathys family
home on the northern English moors.
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Wuthering Heights Introduction
Heathcliff arrives as a gypsy foundling. Cathys
father, Mr. Earnshaw, raises him as a son.
Cathy is a strong-willed beauty who shares
Heathcliffs wild nature.
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Wuthering Heights Introduction
Alone together on the moors, Cathy and Heathcliff
feel as if they are soul mates.
But to Heathcliffs despair, outside forces begin
to pull them apart.
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Wuthering Heights Introduction
Edgar Linton, the Earnshaws neighbor, draws
Cathy into the genteel world of Thrushcross
Grange.
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Wuthering Heights Introduction
We learn Cathy and Heathcliffs story in
flashbacks.
As the novel begins, Cathy is long dead.
Yet even in death, she has an unbreakable hold on
Heathcliff.
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Wuthering Heights Introduction
Heathcliff is now master of Wuthering Heights
and also of Thrushcross Grange.
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Wuthering Heights Introduction
The wild gypsy boy has become a rich man,
and also a cold, cruel, tormented one. How? Why?
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Wuthering Heights Introduction
Wuthering Heights is a romantic tale of intense,
tragic love
the kind of love that leads to madness and
destruction.
Does Heathcliff and Cathys love also bring hope
for redemption?
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Wuthering Heights Background
The landscape of this novel is a raw, powerful
forcealmost a character in itself.
The novel takes place on the moors of Yorkshire
in northern England.
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Wuthering Heights Background
A moor is a large, open area of marshy land.
It often has a top layer of peat, or decayed
plant matter.
Peat may be dried and used for fuel.
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Wuthering Heights Background
The Yorkshire moors are covered with wild heath,
or heather.
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Wuthering Heights Background
Dark sandstone crags, or cliffs, help create an
atmosphere of desolation.
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Wuthering Heights Background
Emily Brontë lived most of her life in Yorkshire.
As children, she and her sisters and brother
played on the moors much as Cathy and Heathcliff
do in Brontës novel.
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Wuthering Heights Background
Not surprisingly, this landscape helped inspire
the dark romanticism of Wuthering Heights.
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Wuthering Heights Discussion Starters

• Discuss (1)
• Is love a decision, or is it more like a force of
  nature?
• When is love a positive, creative force?
• When is it a destructive one?

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Wuthering Heights Discussion Starters

• Discuss (2)
• In what ways do our surroundingsthe places where
  we livehelp shape our personalities?
• Can people change significantly?
• Or do their basic natures always stay the same?