WUTHERING HEIGHTS

EMILY BRONTE

EXTENDED ESSAY TEXT 2

Wuthering Heights

Lesson 3

LQ: Am I able to identify the themes of Wuthering Heights?

THE BIG PICTURE

Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore and evaluate through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning.

Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, and comment on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted

Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted.

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LQ: Am I able to identify the themes of Wuthering Heights? Extended Essay Text 2: W

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STARTER: WH O IS TA LK I NG ABO U T WH OM?

 

Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif,

Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering

Heights

LQ: Am I able to identify the themes of Wuthering Heights?

“mischievous and wayward”

“He’d crush you like a sparrow’s egg/if he

found you a troublesome charge”

“You’re type is not a lamb, it’s a sucking

leveret”

“he’s a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man”

EXT: How are these quotations

linked?

IT’S ONLY WORDSRead through the quotation cards; how many different ways can they be grouped? Think about:Repeated words or phrasesImages that have similar connotationsStrong contrasts

Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif,

Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering

Heights

LQ: Am I able to identify the themes of Wuthering Heights?

EXT: Are there any other ways that seem to be

interesting or revealing?

Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif,

Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering

Heights

LQ: Am I able to identify the themes of Wuthering Heights?

The clash of elemental forcesStriving for transcendenceChildhood and familyConfinement and escapeCommunicationRevengeAbusive patriarchs (father figures)SufferingDisplacement, dispossession and exileLove and hateThe tension between economic interests and social class

THEMESListed opposite are some of the key aspects and themes of Wuthering Heights. Colour code your quotes to show how Bronte’s imagery presents these themes.

PLENARY

As groups feed back their findings, add to your own notes.

Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th/early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif,

Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering

Heights

LQ: Can I understand the lives of the Brontes and Victorian England