Context

Question 1

Potential explanation for the reason behind Heathcliff’s transformation into a gentleman

Answer 1

Emily Bronte worked at school
Jack Sharp attended, adopted by the Walker family - illeagle at the time
He inherited their business and property
Made money off his cousin Sam who was down the path of destruction through gambling

Question 2

Phrenology

Answer 2

Science placing races on lower evolutionary scale, shape of scull determines whether you were benevolent. Disadvantaged Heathcliff

Question 3

Imperialist racism

Answer 3

Despite mass immigration, class divide

Question 4

Physiognomy

Answer 4

A persons facial features or expressions, especially regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin

Question 5

Joseph inspiration

Answer 5

After Emily’s mother died her aunt and father looked after her she didn’t take to their devout Christianity, potential reason for the mocking of Joseph’s betrayal

Question 6

Inspiration behind Hindley

Answer 6

Emily’s brother Branwell was an alcoholic

Question 7

Where did the brontes live

Answer 7

West Yorkshire, in the midst of the moors, desolate expanses of land became setting of wuthering heights

Question 8

Romantic period of literature

Answer 8

Flourished through the late 18-19th centuries, movement celebrated emotion, wildness, nature above reason and science

Question 9

What type of novel was it categorised as

Answer 9

Gothic novel because of the reference to the supernatural, themes of madness and passion

Question 10

What was gothic literature

Answer 10

The dark side of romantic fiction, constrictions of genre linking to the contrast between Edgar and Heathcliff

Question 11

What was the 19th century a time of

Answer 11

Strict social morals, well known for promoting prudish behaviour, running wild on the moors would have been considered unacceptable

Question 12

What did Victorian readers think of the the novel

Answer 12

Shocking and inappropriate in its depiction of passionate, ungoverned lice and cruelty. The work was virtually ignored

Question 13

Industrial revolution

Answer 13

Transition to new manufacturing processes in Europe and the us, new money

Question 14

Property law

Answer 14

In the 19th century English law, females were bound by the laws of coverture, under coverture, the husband and wife were one person and that one person was the husband in the eyes of common law

Question 15

Dogs

Answer 15

Associated with violence and cruelty, relation to something other world and evil, associations with dark and ghostly imagery, fits with gothic tone

Question 16

Queen Victoria

Answer 16

Woman’s place was in the home, domesticity and motherhood considered to be sufficient emotional fulfilment

Question 17

Emily Bronte as an author

Answer 17

One of two writers in the pre- feminist era, refused to bow to social conventions.

Question 18

Why would Emily bronte fear censorship

Answer 18

She was young, female and unmarried

Question 19

What was Emily Brontes pseudonym

Answer 19

Ellis Bell

Question 20

Household hysterics

Answer 20

So bored and powerless women became over emotional and depressed

Question 21

Supernatural

Answer 21

Golden age of belief in supernatural forces and energies, ghost stories, weird transmissions and spooky phenomena

Question 22

What do supernatural events convey

Answer 22

The psychological suffering that Heathcliff experiences through the loss of Catherine

Question 23

Charles Darwin

Answer 23

Held off publishing his theory of evolution for fear of the religious and social disturbance it might produce

Question 24

Wealth

Answer 24

Associated with weakness, desireable, but weak

Question 25

Religion

Answer 25

Largest denominations were Congregationalists, Angelicans. Christian belief still popular. Religion pervaded social and political life