• narrative voice

wuthering heights

hard times - intrusive narrator, mostly omniscient. didactice purpose - preaching. controls readers response. irony, satire, sparsit - staircase. caricature.

  • work

wuthering heights

hard times - factories, "hands", unionisation - negative portrayl of slackbridge - proletariat. bank, bounderby, bourgeoisie, heartless capitalists. oppressive and exploitative nature of work. Parliament, mps, Gradgrind, Harthouse. leisure, balance of work and play - sissy.

  • education

wuthering heights

hard times - utalitarianism, fact vs fancy, "m'choakumchild". Bounderby, liar. Gra...

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  • dichotomy

a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.

  • idiolect

the speech habits peculiar to a particular person

  • omniscient third person

story is told in the third person, and the narrator is aware of all information there is to know about the story's events, characters, setting

  • intrusive first person

the author reports on the setting, the characters and the plot of the story, in third-person, making comments and conclusions throughout

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Prologue

  • Chapter 1:(I) A Visit to Wuthering Heights
  • Mr Lockwood visits Heathcliff at Wuthering Heights who is leasing him Thrushcross Grange. He describes Heathcliff and the sitting room of the Heights, and briefly has an altercation with the dogs before returning to the Grange.
  • Chapter 2:(II) A Singular Family

Lockwood returns to Wuthering Heights the next day. He encounters the rest of Heathcliff's family ― sullen Cathy and rough Hareton. The weather turns bad and, after being injured by the dogs, Lockwood is forced to remain at the Heights overnight.

  • Chapter 3:(III) The Ghost at the Window

Lockwood is shown to a room to sleep which used to belong to Cathy's mother, Cathe...

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