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Wuthering Heights Context
- Emily Bronte
- Published novel under the pseudonym Ellis Bell
- Prejudice society
- Reviews written by men who
will have expected writer to be
male
- Prejudice society
- Complex structural layering reflects her higher
intelligence, superior to that of the male critics
who could not accept her different techniques
- Use of authorial technique - uses one character
to tell the reader about another e.g. we never
meet Cathy but hear about her through Nelly
- Published novel under the pseudonym Ellis Bell
- Background
- Published in 1847 - Victorian readers
found it hard to accept the violent
characters and harsh realities presented
by Bronte
- 'such shocking
pictures of the worst
forms of humanity'
- 'such shocking
pictures of the worst
forms of humanity'
- Audience found it impossible to
accept that it could have been
written by a woman
- However, readers at the time could relate to the central
relationship of Heathcliff and
Cathy
- Harder for us to relate as social class is less judgemental regarding love
- Harder for us to relate as social class is less judgemental regarding love
- Written from 1801 and goes
backwards - use of flashbacks
and flash forwards
- Heathcliff only has one name -
reflection on his social position
- Published in 1847 - Victorian readers
found it hard to accept the violent
characters and harsh realities presented
by Bronte
- Victorian Families
- Potato famine in Ireland along with
industrialisation led to an increased number
of children on the streets of Liverpool e.g.
Heathcliff
- Middle class families often had servants
and many children spent most of their
childhood with their nanny
- Children would be expected to call their Father 'sir'
- Father considered to be head of household
- Children would be expected to call their Father 'sir'
- Linton = more upper class
- Cathy = more upper class
- Married up a class
- Married up a class
- Cathy = more upper class
- Family provided retreat from
stress and turmoil of industrial
world
- Moors are considered
gloomy and grim
- Idealised as centre of stability
- Moors are considered
gloomy and grim
- Family more isolated from its
larger kinship network, although
unmarried women often lived with
married siblings
- "spinsters"
- Family structure primarily nuclear
- Aristocratic families had closer kinship ties beyond nuclear core
- Aristocratic families had closer kinship ties beyond nuclear core
- "spinsters"
- 'There can be no security to society, no honour, no prosperity, no dignity at home, no
nobleness of attitude towards foreign nations, unless the strength of the people rests
upon the purity and firmness of the domestic system'
- Potato famine in Ireland along with
industrialisation led to an increased number
of children on the streets of Liverpool e.g.
Heathcliff
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