Scarica Emily brontË e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! EMILY BRONTË LIFE Emily Bronte was born in 1818 in Yorkshire. The Bronte’s family was made up of six children (five daughters and a son) and their father, Reverend Patrick Bronte, who was a man of remarkable intelligence although very eccentric. Emily, like two of her sisters, Charlotte and Anne, was extremely precocious and started writing poems and stories at a very early age. The three sisters published a collection of poems in 1846 under the male pseudonyms of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell. Emily wrote only one novel, Wuthering Heights, published in 1847. She died the year after at the age of 30. WORKS • Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell • Wuthering Heights WUTHERING HEIGHTS Wuthering Heights is a novel published in 1847. GENRE: Victorian novel containing Romantic and Gothic elements. SETTING: the harsh and isolated Yorkshire moors in Northern England, roughly in 1750-1802 NARRATOR: Wuthering Heights has two main narrators: Lockwood and Ellen "Nelly" Dean. The primary narrator is Lockwood, who begins and ends the narrative and is recording the story that he hears from Nelly. MAIN CHARACTERS Heathcliff: the protagonist Catherine: the woman loved by Heathcliff Hindley: the villain, Catherine’s brother Edgar: a gentleman, later Catherine’s husband The second generation: Hareton (France’s + Hindey’s son); Cathy (Catherine + Edgar’s daughter); Linton (Isabella + Heathcliff’s son) PLOT Mr and Mrs Earnshaw Mr and Mrs Linton Frances + Hindley Heathcliff (adopted) Catherine + Edgar Isabella + Heathcliff Hareton Cathy Linton The central hero is Heathcliff. An orphan adopted by Mr. Earnshaw, the Master of Wuthering Heights. Here, Heathcliff is brought up together with Mr. Earnshaw’s children, Catherine and Hindley. Later, Heathcliff and Catherine fall in love, but one day Heathcliff hears Catherine say that she considers a possible marriage between them degrading for her. Thus, he leaves the place, only to return 3 years later in order to take revenge. He is now rich and still in love with Catherine, but Catherine is now married to Edgar Linton, the Master of Thrushross Grange. Shortly after, she dies giving birth to a daughter, Cathy. Heathcliff marries Isabella Linton and they have a son, Linton. Now Heathcliff has the whole family in his power, and has taken possession of Wuthering Heights after Hindley had wasted all his money in drinking and gambling. Heathcliff forces his son to marry Cathy, but Linton will die after the marriage. When Heathcliff dies, Cathy is finally free to marry her beloved Hareton. THEMES
