Context & Writer's Techniques (AQA A-Level English Literature A): Flashcards
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Pseudonym Emily Brontë used
Pseudonym Emily Brontë used
Ellis Bell
Year Wuthering Heights published
Year Wuthering Heights published
1847
Why novel shocked Victorian readers
Why novel shocked Victorian readers
Violent passion, ambiguous morality, no didactic closure
Gothic elements in Wuthering Heights
Gothic elements in Wuthering Heights
Storms, ghosts, confinement, tyrannical characters
Type of hero Heathcliff represents
Type of hero Heathcliff represents
Byronic hero
Primary narrator of Wuthering Heights
Primary narrator of Wuthering Heights
Mr Lockwood
Main internal narrator
Main internal narrator
Nelly Dean
What Wuthering Heights house symbolises
What Wuthering Heights house symbolises
Wild, passionate, uncontrolled emotion
What Thrushcross Grange symbolises
What Thrushcross Grange symbolises
Civilised, refined, respectability & restraint
Catherine's famous declaration about Heathcliff
Catherine's famous declaration about Heathcliff
I am Heathcliff