Portrait Chapter 1 Reading.
(Chapter 1 Notes)
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
Due 3/4
Chapters 1-8 of Wuthering Heights. If you did not purchase your book, the library has them available for checkout. Also, if you're desperate, there is an annotated online copy available here.
Some hopefully useful background:
Wuthering Heights is told non-linearly, which means that it will make extensive use of flashbacks. The story is first narrated in the first person by a wealthy man named Lockwood, who is renting a house, Thrushcross Grange, from a man named Heathcliff, who also owns and lives at a house called Wuthering Heights (hereafter WH). We meet two younger people living at WH when Lockwood makes a journey there, who are children of people who have died—during your reading you should be able to figure out who they are related to. After a second visit to WH, Lockwood falls ill and must spend time convalescing, at which point he asks his housekeeper, Ellen (also called Nelly or Mrs. Dean) about the people currently living at WH since she used to work as a servant there. Nelly then begins a flashback towards the beginning of chapter 4 with her as the first person narrator which tells us the back story that resulted in odd set of circumstances that Lockwood witnesses at WH.
As you do your reading, make analytical note of:
-The use of symbolic environments—descriptions of houses and the outdoors
- Issues of class—manners, clothing, speak, appearance,
- Character identity—sense of self, characterization, etc.
Some hopefully useful background:
Wuthering Heights is told non-linearly, which means that it will make extensive use of flashbacks. The story is first narrated in the first person by a wealthy man named Lockwood, who is renting a house, Thrushcross Grange, from a man named Heathcliff, who also owns and lives at a house called Wuthering Heights (hereafter WH). We meet two younger people living at WH when Lockwood makes a journey there, who are children of people who have died—during your reading you should be able to figure out who they are related to. After a second visit to WH, Lockwood falls ill and must spend time convalescing, at which point he asks his housekeeper, Ellen (also called Nelly or Mrs. Dean) about the people currently living at WH since she used to work as a servant there. Nelly then begins a flashback towards the beginning of chapter 4 with her as the first person narrator which tells us the back story that resulted in odd set of circumstances that Lockwood witnesses at WH.
As you do your reading, make analytical note of:
-The use of symbolic environments—descriptions of houses and the outdoors
- Issues of class—manners, clothing, speak, appearance,
- Character identity—sense of self, characterization, etc.
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