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What are letters used for?

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Moving the action along and establishing power

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What is illness used for?

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A strategy for women e.g., Catherine and Isabella to influence the actions of men

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Why narrates in chapter 16?

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Zillah (housekeeper)

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What is the reality gap?

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The reality gap suggests that Bronte only depicts what is lost, rather than what is present

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What is the significance of the little shepherd boy seeing Catherine and Heathcliff’s ghost?

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It shows a neutral outsider commenting on ghosts and due to him being an innocent child, he provides credibility for the readers to believe in the supernatural

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What does the names of Catherine inscribed upon the window represent (‘Catherine Earnshaw, Catherine Linton, Catherine Heathcliff’)?

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It represents her fragmented social identity and the fact that she struggled to deal with conflicting ideas of herself

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What’s a key theme related to Catherine’s internal conflict in terms of marrying Edgar or Heathcliff?

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Culture vs nature

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Why does Heathcliff only have a single name that serves as his Christian name and surname?

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It represents how he is radically outside social patterns and conventions & doesn’t exist within the family

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What type of hero can Heathcliff be described as?

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  • Byronic as he is powerful and rebels against conventional morality
  • Romantic as he transforms
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What are both Heathcliff and Catherine troubled by?

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Internal contradiction

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What does the feminist critics perception of Edgar contradict?

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The feminist view contradicts the idea that Edgar represents femininity and Heathcliff, masculinity.

This is because he inherits TCG, books and is also referred to as ‘the master’ throughout

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What quote shows Edgar’s weakness?

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“Your type is not a lamb, it’s a sucking leveret (young hare in first year)”

Shows that his wife believes that he is weaker than a lamb

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Who influenced the animal imagery in the novel?

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Charles Darwin and his survival of the fittest.

Animal imagery may have been used to show that the bestial qualities are in characters nature

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What does Linton Heathcliff’s name suggests?

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It suggests that unnatural union of the Linton’s and Heathcliff showing that this union is impossible

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Who does Hareton’s physically resemble?

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Catherine (annoys Heathcliff as he has a constant reminder of his lover)

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What is the symbolism of Hareton’s character?

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Combining of both houses, resolving conflicts between other relationships

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What does Cathy and Hareton’s relationship restore the novel back to?

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A novel of domestic bliss

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What is Nelly’s dual role?

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Narrator and character (as a servant who can effortlessly move between both houses)

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What does Joseph’s Yorkshire dialect respresent?

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That he’s intransient and will not change

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What characterises the relationship of Heathcliff and Catherine?

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Narcissism

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What characterises the relationship between Isabella and Heathcliff?

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Fantasy

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What do both Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights represent?

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Enclosure and exposure

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In terms of psychodynamic theory, what do both houses represent?

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Thrushcross Grange represents the Ego (rational) and Wuthering Heights represents the ID (urges and desires)

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How is nature presented as female in the novel?

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  • Storm as a female witch-child
  • Catherine in Lockwood’s dream
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What can’t Lockwood read?

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The signs of nature (lives in the cultural house of TCG)

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Who is conventional, institutionalised morality represented by?

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Joseph

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Who is morality of authenticity (true to one’s self) represented by?

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Catherine

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Who represents self-interest over altruism (concern about others wellbeing)?

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Nelly Dean

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What does education enable?

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Status, power,

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What is meant by ‘the uncanny’?

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Strange and mysterious

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What is antifeminism?

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Disrespect to women and feminine freedom

)Shown through the control of men over women in the novel)

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What is social class inequality?

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Disrespect to others due to their social class or social status

(Hindley and Nelly abuse Heathcliff due to him being an orphan)

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What are Marxist ideals?

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The criticism that accumulation of wealth leads to the wealthy oppressing the poor, leading to stratified social classes

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How would a Marxist critic view Heathcliff and Catherine’s relationship?

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A Marxist would suggest that the turmoil was due to the social class distinction between Heathcliff and Catherine, meaning that she couldn’t marry who she loved, but rather someone of a similar class

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Does a Marxist critic believe Catherine’s death was her fault?

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Yes, because she chose to marry on class and wealth rather than who she loves, meaning that she deserved her misfortune and death

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What’s a Marxist’s explanation of Heathcliff’s abuse to Hareton?

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Due to the abuse Heathcliff faced as a child from Hindley, he uses his new power to exhibit the same abuse onto Hareton as an act of revenge on Hindley

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Marxist view on Heathcliff gaining revenge

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A Marxist would suggest that Heathcliff can only gain revenge by joining the system which abused him

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What do feminist critics suggest that Cathy and Hareton provide at the end of the novel?

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A modern nuclear family (where basic family values such as love, tolerance and coexistence)

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How would feminist critics view the relationship of Isabella and Heathcliff?

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They identify the female gothic and the idea that women are trapped and isolated by men’s domination and domestic arrangements during the 19th C

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What are a feminist critics views on inheritance laws?

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They focus on the fact that a married woman couldn’t own her own property at the time

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What does the ill-treatment of Heathcliff reflect?

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General racism in society

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How could a post-colonial critic explain Heathcliff’s behaviour?

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They would suggest that Heathcliff has an inability to control his savagery since he is perceived as a lesser person compared to the ‘civilised’ white characters

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What does the psychoanalytic critic say about the loss of a mother?

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The loss of a mother can ruin the human condition and can also cause our innate desires

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What would a psychoanalytic critic say that Heathcliff represents?

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The ID as he expresses primitive desires and seeks pleasure to avoid pain

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What would a psychoanalytic critic say that Catherine represents?

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EGO - controls the impulses of the ID and levels with the Superego to create rational behaviours

Catherine is torn between a relationship with Edgar (superego = good for her due to status) or Heathcliff (id = bad for her due to social class)

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What would a psychoanalytic critic say that Edgar represents?

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SUPEREGO - represents the rules and morality of proper society as he’s civilised and cultured

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What would a psychoanalytic critic diagnose Heathcliff with?

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Antisocial personality disorder as he displays many abnormal behaviours e.g., isolation, abusive, however, this may have been influenced by his neglect as a child

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What’s the symbolism of Catherine’s dream?

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The dream provides a warning (cautionary tale) and shows that she belongs in hell (which is what WH is)

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What are examples of mirrors/ doubles?

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  • Two narrators to form a Chinese box structure
  • Two opposing houses of TCG and WH
  • 2nd generation characters mirror 1st gen
  • Two sides of Catherine - her conflict between Edgar and Heathcliff
  • The Linton’s and the Earnshaw’s
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What does the shifting narratorial voices do?

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Urges readers to question the ideas about the truth of the novel

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How is Nelly’s narrative presented as credible and what may this cause?

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It’s presented as credible through her humour and confidential tone however, this may cause readers to form misjudgements

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What is Chartism and how does it relate to Wuthering Heights?

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Chartism was a large working-class movement for political reform in Britain

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How do feminist critics see heathcliff?

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As feminine because he lacks social power

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