Wuthering Heights context
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- Created on: 07-05-13 00:41
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- Emily Bronte/ Wuthering Heights CONTEXT
- Constantly faced with prospect of death/mortality; graveyard outside house
- Mother died when Emily was a young girl
- Emily 'willed' her death shortly after Branwell's
- She was weak and lived vicariously through her characters
- Who represents Bronte in her novel?
- Nelly Dean ---- she is a passive 'gossip' - not in with the action or committing the actions but instead reporting on it and speculating
- Cathy -- Self-inflicted decline into death/insanity.Cathy is liminal; Bronte's liminal?
- Who represents Bronte in her novel?
- Branwell - Hindley
- Emily 'willed' her death shortly after Branwell's
- Cathy - Charlotte?
- Regarding Branwell: 'Reason with him and when he won't listen to reason, whip him.'
- Unable to function outside of her home; numerous attempts to teach which resulted in her returning to the moors due to home sickness
- Radical open end not expected from Victoria literature
- Thrushcross Grange = Victorian Ideal whereas Wuthering Heights is the representation of freedom (an anarchist reflection)
- Religious inflections in her childhood/life
- Graveyard = constant reminder of heaven and hell - death
- Who represents Bronte in her novel?
- Nelly Dean ---- she is a passive 'gossip' - not in with the action or committing the actions but instead reporting on it and speculating
- Cathy -- Self-inflicted decline into death/insanity.Cathy is liminal; Bronte's liminal?
- Constantly faced with prospect of death/mortality; graveyard outside house
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