Le sorelle Brontë e Cime tempestose, Appunti di Inglese

Scarica Le sorelle Brontë e Cime tempestose e più Appunti in PDF di Inglese solo su Docsity! BRONTË SISTERS The Brontë Sisters are 3: Charlotte, Emily and Anne. These three women’s lives were totally different from Dickens’. These women lived a secluded life. They were born in Yorkshire, their father was a vicar and they lived on the moor (brughiera) full of heather and bushes. They didn’t go to school, they were educated at home and read the books of their dad’s library. They had a brother, Bronwell, who died because of alcohol. Anne was the youngest, Charlotte was a couple of years older than Emily. Women belonging to lower middle class usually wanted to become governesses, both Charlotte and Emily studied as governesses. Charlotte was able to finish her studies, while Emily decided to quit and go back home because she was homesick. Jane Eyre is written by Charlotte, Jane was a governess because Charlotte was able to write about it, being a governess herself. She also wrote Shirley and Villette, both based on governess. Charlotte was the only one to get married and died giving birth. The other two died before that, they all died pretty young. The three of them stated with a collection of poems with the pen name Currer, Ellis, Acton Bell. After that, they wrote separately. The one considered to be the masterpiece of Victorian Age was Emily’s Wuthering Heights. WUTHERING HEIGHTS Wuthering Heights was considered unconventional because the characters were cruel and the love story was too passionate so the Victorian Age didn’t appreciate it. The plot is a little bit complicated as she had lots of free time and dedicated herself to this novel; it is focused on 2 houses, Wuthering Heights – which is on the moorse – and Trushcross Grange – which is in a valley. All along in the novel we’ll see the contrasts between the two houses and the families who lived there. The story starts at Wuthering Heights which is inhabited by a family, the Earnshaws, family made of mother, father and 2 children – Catherine and Hindley. Mr. Earnshaws is a business man and he often goes to Liverpool – Emily wasn’t good ad describing it because she has never been there – and every time he comes back brings a gift for his children. One day he comes back with a foundling – a child you don’t know anything about, usually the ones left in church – and they decided to call him Heathcliff (this name is made of 2 different words, it’s really meaningful because it describes his behaviour). The children grow up together but while there is a very close relationship between Catherine and Heathcliff, Heathcliff and Hindley can’t stand each other. Catherine and Heathcliff are always together, they wander on the moorse together and one day they decided to explore the area around Trushcross Grange. A family lives there, the Lintons, made of four people – mother, father and 2 children – Edgar and Isabella who are brother and sister. But while they’re near the house, one of Linton’s dog bites Catherine who can’t move or can’t go back home. While Heathcliff is sent back home, she stays with Linton’s family for 5 weeks and she gets to know Edgar and Isabella. After a few years, Edgar proposes to Catherine – he wants to marry her – she accepts and during a discussion with her housekeeper Nelly Dean, Catherine tells that she can’t marry Heathcliff because of his social position (he is a foundling, he has nothing – no money at all). While she’s saying that Heathcliff hears what she says and decided to leave Wuthering Heights, disappears for 3 years and during those years Catherine and Edgar got married. When he comes back home, he’s completely different: he’s handsome, rich but cruel – he wants to take revenge for what Catherine has done to him. First he gambles with Hindley – who became a drunkard – and they play, Hindley loses Wuthering Heights so now Heathcliff is the new owner of that place; then, he pretends to fall in love with Isabella (Edgar’s sister) – while she really is in love. They get married, as soon as they get married he teats her as a servant. They have a son whose name is Linton Heathcliff – this is his revenge, now he also owns the Linton’s family, not just the house. Meanwhile Catherine is pregnant and she delivers a daughter whose name is Cathy; so, some weeks after giving birth to her Catherine dies. Cathy grows up with her father Edgar. She meets Linton and when she grows up Heathcliff kidnaps her and forces Cathy to marry Linton. As Edgar is dead, Linton – who is a very weak man, frail – with his father Heathcliff become the owners of Trushcross Grange too. Now his revenge is complete, he has everything (Trushcross Grange, Wuthering Heights and Cathy). The story is not told in this simple way. Emily Brontë uses a new technique, the story begins from the end. At the beginning there is a man, Mr. Lockwood who is the tenant of Trushcross Grange and decides to go to Wuthering Heights to meet the owner, Heathcliff; but when is there, there’s a terrible snow storm so he can’t go back and he’s compelled to spend the night there. While he’s almost sleeping, he has a sort of nightmare – he hears someone tapping at the window and when he opens it, he hears a woman voice which says ‘’please let me in, I’m Catherine’’. He’s scared, he screams loudly and when he hears him, he crushes in his room and tells the voice to come in. The next day when Mr. Lockwood goes back to Trushcross Grange, he asks to the housekeeper tell him the story of the family and then Nelly Dean starts telling him everything. The story starts in 1801 and goes back when the protagonists were children and the main narrator is Nelly Dean. After few months Mr. Lockwood leaves Trushcross Grange where only Heathcliff, Linton and Cathy live. In the meantime, Hindley is dead and his son – Hareton, Linton’s cousin who lived with Heathcliff who always treated him like a servant. One year later, Mr. Lockwood goes back to that area, he decides to say hello – he was passing by - and goes to Trushcross Grange. He sees Nelly Dean and asks her some news about the family but the situation is completely different: Heathcliff is dead, Linton is dead, Cathy and Hareton are in love and they’re going to get married. Nelly Dean tells him that some people say that at night can see two ghosts wandering on the moors and they believe they’re Catherine and Heathcliff’s ghosts. So finally they are together after death, love triumph at the end. Emily Brontë’ technique of narration is different from Dicken’s technique, because he’s an omniscient narrator while Emily lets her characters speak so through what they say we understand