Wuthering Heights Form & Structure
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- Wuthering Heights Form & Structure
- Anachrony- a deliberate shuffling of time sequences in a narrative.
- A common feature of novels, for example, is that the order in which the plot develops is quite different from the chronological sequence of events in the original story.
- The narrative moves forward through a developing story line; simultaneously explaining a large span of events.
- The novel begins when the story is almost finished, but Lockwood's curiosity triggers the narration. We have to re-live the past imaginatively.
- Past and present are bound up in a way that does not divide the time frame awkwardly.
- The novel begins when the story is almost finished, but Lockwood's curiosity triggers the narration. We have to re-live the past imaginatively.
- The narrative moves forward through a developing story line; simultaneously explaining a large span of events.
- A common feature of novels, for example, is that the order in which the plot develops is quite different from the chronological sequence of events in the original story.
- Nelly's narration is heavily dramatised: she records conversations as well as events etc.), which strongly affects the reader's perceptions and opinions.
- The novelist was not able to use her own voice (Emily Bronte wrote under the ambiguous pseudonym of Ellis Bell) so the story must speak for itself.
- We are thrust into the story (in the same way Lockwood is), a stranger to the characters, relationships and setting of the story.
- Lockwood and Nelly provide the necessary objectivity. Smaller narratives such as Cathy's diary give us glimpses into the lives of the protagonists.
- Lockwood is an outsider, intrigued by the mystery of Wuthering Heights, who presents the situation as he sees it.
- He provides an insight into the 19th century world
- His format of storytelling is intimate and personal (diary form), establishing a partly subjective tone.
- His style is factual, full of comment, educated and literary. He provides a perspective less coloured by bias than Nelly's. Long, complex sentences allude to his sophistication which we as the reader find amusing.
- We are thrust into the story (in the same way Lockwood is), a stranger to the characters, relationships and setting of the story.
- Bronte steers our response through the the abrupt reactions of her narrators. Even the setting has a life and mind of its own, and contributes to our heart-and-mind experience.
- The novel begins when the story is almost finished, but Lockwood's curiosity triggers the narration. We have to re-live the past imaginatively.
- Past and present are bound up in a way that does not divide the time frame awkwardly.
- The novel begins when the story is almost finished, but Lockwood's curiosity triggers the narration. We have to re-live the past imaginatively.
- Nelly has an energy and urgency with her style of narration. She gives us a detailed account of the story; the use of verbatim-dialogue accounting for the conversations: which enhances her credibility as a narrator.
- Her sentences are brief and rapid compared to Lockwood's, they convey her depth of engagement in the story.
- She provides an inner frame within the benefit of hindsight, and unlike Lockwood she is a character in her own narrative- which increases her subjectivity and sometimes compromises her reliability,
- Her moral stance is difficult to read at times- she is perhaps inconsistent in some ways.
- She is perhaps limited by her social standing, and as the reader we might at times assume that we can read the situation better ourselves.
- Nelly is telling the story to Lockwood, so we have to judge what she says based on this- considering: does she elaborate, exaggerate or edit what happens for his benefit?
- Her moral stance is difficult to read at times- she is perhaps inconsistent in some ways.
- She provides an inner frame within the benefit of hindsight, and unlike Lockwood she is a character in her own narrative- which increases her subjectivity and sometimes compromises her reliability,
- Her sentences are brief and rapid compared to Lockwood's, they convey her depth of engagement in the story.
- The multiple layers of narrative allow us immediacy when seeing characters, and inevitably we find ourselves closer to the action as a direct result of the narrative style.
- Anachrony- a deliberate shuffling of time sequences in a narrative.
- Her sentences are brief and rapid compared to Lockwood's, they convey her depth of engagement in the story.
- She provides an inner frame within the benefit of hindsight, and unlike Lockwood she is a character in her own narrative- which increases her subjectivity and sometimes compromises her reliability,
- Her moral stance is difficult to read at times- she is perhaps inconsistent in some ways.
- She is perhaps limited by her social standing, and as the reader we might at times assume that we can read the situation better ourselves.
- Nelly is telling the story to Lockwood, so we have to judge what she says based on this- considering: does she elaborate, exaggerate or edit what happens for his benefit?
- Her moral stance is difficult to read at times- she is perhaps inconsistent in some ways.
- She provides an inner frame within the benefit of hindsight, and unlike Lockwood she is a character in her own narrative- which increases her subjectivity and sometimes compromises her reliability,
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