Revision of

Wuthering
Heights
by
Emily Bronte
 EMILY BRONTE
 Emily Bronte was born in1818.

 Her family lived in Yorkshire.

 Her sisters Charlotte and Anne were also writers.

 Charlotte is most famous for being the author of the

novel Jane Eyre.

 Emily only lived to be thirty years old. She died in

1848 of consumption.
 Wuthering Heights
 Wuthering Heights was published for the first time
in the year 1847.
 When the book was first released, it was assumed
to be written by a man due to the fact that the name
of the author was Ellis Bell. However, when the
real author died her sister revealed her true
identity.
 Wuthering Heights is a gothic romance novel
narrated by two people, Nelly Dean and Mr.
Lockwood.
 Because of the fact this book has two narrators, it
is written in present tense and past tense.
 Mood & Tone of Wuthering Heights
 The mood of this book

 The mood of this book is dark and romantic.

 Although the foundations of this book are built on

romance, most of it ends in a very dark and

depressing way.

 The tone of this book

 The tone of this book is sympathetic and bitter.

 The author makes you feel sympathetic for

Catherine and bitter towards Heathcliff.

 Characters

HEATHCLIFF
 An orphan that Mr. Earnshaw brought to Wuthering

Heights to live at. He ended up falling madly in love

with Catherine, Mr. Earnshaw’s daughter. Hindley ends
up abusing him, and treating him as his own servant,
forcing Heathcliff to stay away from Catherine. He later
left Wuthering Heights and later came back seeking
revenge on Hindley. He married Isabella Edgars sister.
 Characters

Catherine
 The daughter of Mr. Earnshaw. She later fell in
love with Heathcliff yet, ended up marrying
Edgar Linton so she could become "the
greatest lady in the neighboorhood." She later
brings misery to both men. She was a beautiful,
care-free, passionate, and stubborn women.
She died giving birth to her daughter Cathy.
 Characters
EDGAR LINTON
 Edgar is a handsome, and spoiled
gentlemen. He lived at Thrushcross Grange.
When Catherine got bite by a dog and came
to his house for care, he fell in love with
her. They got married although she didn't
love him and had one daughter before she
died.
 Characters

YOUNG CATHERINE
 Young Catherine also known as Cathy,is
Catherine Linton's daughter. She is later
forced by Heathcliff to marry her cousin
Linton. After Linton's death she marries
Hareton.
 Characters

NELLY DEAN
 Nelly Dean is also known as Ellen. She was
the chief at Wuthering Heights. Hindley
and Catherine grew up in front of her. She
is a really caring person especially for her
masters. Nelly ends up telling their story to
Lockwood, a visitor.
 Characters

HARETON 
 Hareton is the son of Hindley and
Frances Earnshaw. After his father dies,
he is given to Heathcliff to take care of.
Heathcliff keeps Hareton from learning,
which results in Hareton being iliterate.
At the end of the novel, he marries
Cathy.
 Characters

LINTON
 Linton is the son of Isabella and
Heathcliff. He is very sick and weak. He
doesn't meet his father till after his
mother dies when he is 13. He later
marries Cathy, but later dies.
 Characters

HINDLEY
 Hindley is Catherine’s brother. He hated
Heathcliff and treated him very bad
when he was a child. Hindley was the
owner of Wuthering Heights before he
died. He was married to Frances and had
a son named Hareton.
 Characters

ISABELLA
Isabella is Hindley’s sister. She fell in love with
Heathcliff which made her brother very upset.
Once Heathcliff and her relationship ended she
ran away to London pregnant. Heathcliff did not
know at the time, yet later found out and did
nothing about it. She later died, which resulted
in Heathcliff taking Linton.
PLOT AND LITERARY ELEMENTS
 PLOT LINE:
A. Exposition

B. Lockwood's arrival at Wuthering

heights, his finding of the diary and
Nelly's explanations of each
character
 PLOT LINE

Rising action
Hindley hates & banishes Heathcliff after
he and Catherine have fallen in love.
Turning Point
Catherine marries Edgar. This leads to
Heathcliff wanting revenge, and
marrying Isabella.
 PLOT LINE

Falling Action:
 Children are born (Hareton, Cathy, and Linton.)

people die (Hindley, Catherine, Isabella)

 Second Exposition:

 Cathy's growing up at Thrushcross Grange, the

meeting of the new generation.
 PLOT LINE

Second Rising Action

 Heathcliff's basic stalking of Cathy, Cathy finally

meets her two cousins, Linton's and Cathy's

relationship becoming more complicated, and
Linton's confession about being forced to court
her.
 PLOT LINE

Second Turning Point

 Heathcliff's kidnapping of Cathy and Nelly Dean
and forcing Cathy and Linton to get married.

Second Falling Action

 Linton's eventual death, Nelly's escape and cry for
help, Cathy and Hareton falling in love and getting
married, Heathcliff's slow madness leading to death.
 PLOT LINE

Resolution
 Cathy and Hareton move to Thrushcross Grange

together, Lockwood once more departs for London,

feeling satisfied with the happy ending, and
Heathcliff is burried (as he wished) next to Catherine
with open coffins so they may rest in peace together.
 Theme

 The theme of importance of upholding certain

social classes is evident throughout the novel:
 Hindley, Catherine’s brother made it almost impossible
for Catherine and Healthcliff to fall in love and marry,
because of how he thought others would think about
their family due to Heathcliff’s lack of high social status.
The Earnshaws’ and Lintons’ were both a part of the
gentry in the British hierarchy at the time yet, the
Lintons held a firmer hold on their social status then the
Earnshaws. This would be why Catherine decided to
marry Edgar, so she could be “the greatest woman of the
neighborhood”.
 Theme

 The Destructiveness of a Love That Never Changes

 Catherine and Heathcliff’s passion for one another seems to be
the center of Wuthering Heights, given that it is stronger and
more lasting than any other emotion displayed in the novel, and
that it is the source of most of the major conflicts that structure
the novel’s plot. As she tells Catherine and Heathcliff’s story,
Nelly criticizes both of them harshly, condemning their passion
as immoral, but this passion is obviously one of the most
compelling and memorable aspects of the book.
 Theme
 It is not easy to decide whether Brontë intends the reader to condemn
these lovers as blameworthy or to idealize them as romantic heroes
whose love transcends social norms and conventional morality. The
book is actually structured around two parallel love stories, the first
half of the novel centering on the love between Catherine and
Heathcliff, while the less dramatic second half features the developing
love between young Catherine and Hareton. In contrast to the first, the
latter tale ends happily, restoring peace and order to Wuthering Heights
and Thrushcross Grange. The differences between the two love stories
contribute to the reader’s understanding of why each ends the way it
does. The most important feature of young Catherine and Hareton’s
love story is that it involves growth and change.
 Theme

Self-knowledge
 Brontë frequently dissociates the self from the consciousness––that is,
characters have to get to know themselves just as they would another
person. This becomes a major concern when Catherine Earnshaw decides
against her better judgment to marry Edgar Linton; she is self-aware
enough to acknowledge that she has a 'double character' and that Heathcliff
may be a better match for her, but she lacks the confidence to act on this
intuition. Self-knowledge also affects how characters get to know others;
Isabella knows how violent Heathcliff is, but is unable to acknowledge this
because she believes herself capable of controlling him.
 Theme

Doubles
 Given the symmetrical structure of Wuthering Heights, it follows naturally that
Brontë should thematize doubles and doubleness. Catherine Earnshaw notes
her own "double character" (66) when she tries to explain her attraction to both
Edgar and Heathcliff, and their shared name suggests that Cathy Linton is, in
some ways, a double for her mother. There are also many parallel pairings
throughout the novel that suggests that certain characters are doubles of each
other: Heathcliff and Catherine, Edgar and Isabella, Hareton and Cathy, and
even Hindley and Ellen (consider the latter's deep grief when Hindley dies, and
that they are 'milk siblings'). Catherine's famous insistence that "I am
Heathcliff" (82) reinforces the concept that individuals can share an identity.
 Theme

Literacy
 Throughout the novel, reading and literacy are shown to be sources of both
power and pleasure. Heathcliff purposely keeps Hareton uneducated as a way
to control the young man and to get revenge on Hareton's father, Hindley.
Likewise, Cathy gives books to her servant, Michael, to convince him to
deliver her love letters to Linton. The graffiti at Wuthering Heights at the
beginning of the novel also serves as a kind of dominion; by carving their
names into the wall, Catherine Earnshaw and her daughter ensure that their
spirits will always preside over the crumbling house. However, the characters
also derive significant pleasure from reading; it is one of Cathy's few solaces
during her miserable first months at Wuthering Heights, and it eventually
serves as a pretext for her to bond with Hareton.