Women In Wuthering Heights Flashcards
How does heights challenge the typical perceptions of women in Gothic?
They are far from silent and passive, are active competitors in a violent domestic world
What does Tess conform to
Passive gothic role
What would happen is Catherine was more passive and good to her husband Edgar
Would she have suffered as much as she did
Catherine’s unnatural masculinity and harshness
‘It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn’
How is Catherine presented in comparison to the Linton
She’s presented as a ‘thorn’ whilst they represent sweet flowers who bend to embrace her
Comparison to Tess with Catherine as a ‘thorn’
‘It was impossible for even an enemy to feel that Tess was unattractive on looking at Tess as she set there, with her flower like mouth’
How do both authors fail to show the treatment of women?
Bronte uses the pseudonym of Ellis Bell and when it was discovered that she was a female she was vilified for not only her work but writing as a woman
How does Charlotte Bronte present Emily and herself?
Naive virginal and uneducated similar to Tess’s character
