Scarica Cime Tempestose, analisi libro e più Schemi e mappe concettuali in PDF di Letteratura Inglese solo su Docsity! Emily Brontë (1818-1848) Wuthering Heights Selected Poems: I’m Happiest when Most Away. The Night-Wind. Remembrance. Stars. The Prisoner. A Fragment. No Coward Soul Is Mine. The Brontë’s Parsonage Home Home of the Brontës in Haworth, Yorkshire. ‘Top Withens’ at Wuthering Heights è On Wuthering Heights (Title, Q2) “Wuther” (Old Norman dialect): “to move swiftly with force”; “to make a strong roaring as the wind”; “to throw or beat violently”. INSTINCTIVE LIFE, STRENGTH, POWER. “Weather”: “to survive after a problem”. Positive connotations (LIFE); but also as a noun: “physical desintegration and chemical decomposition of rocks and minerals”. “Wither”: to lose vitality or sensibility. If your arm withers you feel nothing at all. Negative connotations (DEATH) NATURE is the soul of human life at the Heights On Wuthering Heights (Names) HEATHCLIFF: compound of two natural elements. ‘Heath’: high wild grass that can be found in the moors. ‘Cliff ’: savage, strong, stiff. EDGAR: Christian and pious name. Natural law versus Human & Christian law. LOCKWOOD: ‘lock’ + ‘wood’. HARETON: ‘hare’ On Wuthering Heights Description of the Grange as a “splendid place.” Civilization and comfort. Q3. Hybrid genre novel containing elements of the Domestic, the Gothic and the Romantic. Description of the Heights: inadequacy to a domestic scene, absence of “glitter of saucepans” and presence of “guns and horse pistols”. Q4. Introduction of Gothic elements into the Domestic. Q5. Functional Landscape and Weather: Q6, Q7. Equals in Nature, in terms of gender and social class. Q8. On Heathcliff On Healthcliff ’s origins. Q12. Heathcliff ’s transformation: embodiment of Victorian middle-class that emphasized individual hard work and prosperity. Q13. New representative of the middle-class: Reform Act 1832. Heathcliff “is like a bleak, hilly coal-country and Edgar, a beautiful, fertile valley”. Rebellion = Death (See also “Naming Heathcliff ” on the complementary materials) On Wuthering Heights Romantic Love versus Domestic Love: Q14. Romantic quality of the novel. Emily’s a d v o c a c y o f a n i d e a l i s e d a n d transcendental vocation of romantic love in that “there is or should be, an existence of yours beyond you”. Q15. WH literalizes the Romantic idea of union in death. Q16, Q17. On Wuthering Heights Catherine’s joy, blocked by modern socials, becomes a source of horror. She returns in forms of terror and despair. Catherine’s “Let me in – let me in” as an appeal that Heathcliff should find room for her in a heart obsessed with hatred. Heathcliff ’s passage from ‘hell to heaven’ is marked by both “pleasure and pain, in exquisite extremes.”
