“I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!”
Heathcliff
Chapter 7 (Vol 1) is a key scene in the text. It is one of four scenes we will look at in [...]
Entries from June 2007
Chapter 7 – Discussion – Christmas Scene
June 6th, 2007 · 2 Comments
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“Illustrating Wuthering Heights” a lecture by John Vernon Lord
June 6th, 2007 · No Comments
Introduction
Wuthering Heights is the only novel written by Emily Brontë, first published in 1847. It is a wild, violent and tempestuous story about love and vengeance and it is set among the wind-blasted moors of Yorkshire. The novel is dominated by Heathcliff, a passionate and embittered soul whose vindictive spirit finally burns itself out at [...]
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Love and relationships in Wuthering Heights
June 3rd, 2007 · 7 Comments
1. Generate a list of the marriages and love relationships in Wuthering Heights.
Ask yourself what makes a good relationship, and generate a set of criteria for evaluating the marriages/relationships in the novel. Rank the relationships in order, from most to least passionate, then from most to least loving. Provide textual evidence [...]
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