Wuthering Heights Structure
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- Created on: 26-04-16 20:55
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- Wuthering Heights structure
- Chinese box structure
- Dual narrative
- Nelly
- More bias
- Retells the majority of the story
- Feminist reading: Nelly as a female has power over the reader giving us only her perspective
- Rely on her for the main narrative
- Feminist reading: Nelly as a female has power over the reader giving us only her perspective
- Retells the majority of the story
- Past tense
- Anachrony
- More bias
- Nelly
- Dual narrative
- Original Volume structure
- Bronte initially wrote WH in 2 volumes
- Vol 1 chapters 1-14
- Focus on Hc's rise to power
- Social mobility
- Focus on Hc's rise to power
- Vol 2 chapters 15-34
- Focus on Hc vengeance & consequences of his actions
- Begins with Cathy's death
- Loses all his love & compassion only motive of revenge remains
- Begins with Cathy's death
- Focus on Hc vengeance & consequences of his actions
- Vol 1 chapters 1-14
- Bronte initially wrote WH in 2 volumes
- Place
- allows for structural transition - turning points
- Example: Heathcliff gains wealth once he leaves the heights
- Cathy & Heathcliff's relationship grows on the moors as it aids their escape from society
- Chapter 7: Cathy comes back from the Grange
- Being away from the heights & at the grange has changed her female identity
- Fits victorian ideals
- Restricting her true personality
- Heathcliff changes his identity to be accepted by Cathy (chapt 10)
- Both are unhappy and die without each other
- Marxist reading: acts as a warning against Victorian society
- Heathcliff changes his identity to be accepted by Cathy (chapt 10)
- Restricting her true personality
- Fits victorian ideals
- Being away from the heights & at the grange has changed her female identity
- allows for structural transition - turning points
- Anachrony
- Chronology
- Time interrupted by narrators
- Time interrupted by narrators
- Symmetry
- Hc & Cathy
- Edgar & Isabella
- Edgar jealous of Hc relationship/ bond with Cathy
- Isabella jealous of Cathy's relationship/ bond with Hc
- Hc & Cathy
- Chinese box structure
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