Before you read: How to Teach Wuthering Heights

Your students will love:

• The realism of the novel
• Vivid descriptions of nature

Students may be challenged by:

• Difficult vocabulary
• Understanding the characters' storylines and how they change through the text -Nelly's unreliable narration

Objectives for Teaching Wuthering Heights:

• Define Romanticism and discuss the ways in which this story fits the definition.
• Trace the connections between the family at Wuthering Heights and that of Thrushcross Grange and discuss the impact one generation has on the next. -Point out the ways in which the character of Heathcliff is a Byronic hero. -Comment on the role of women in nineteenth-century England in regard to their social and legal rights and responsibilities. -Discuss the use of metaphor, sarcasm, and foils in the novel. -Examine the shifting point of view in this story and discuss how this manner of narration has both advantages and disadvantages.

Key Elements and Techniques

1. Dialect
2. Foreshadowing
3. Frame Story
4. Local Color
5. Romanticism
6. Unreliable Narrator

Themes and Motifs

Revenge

If you like stories with themes of revenge, you should also check out:

• The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexander Dumas.
  
• Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
• The Iliad, by Homer

Social Class

If you like novels with themes about social class, you should also check out:

• Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen
• The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë

Nature vs. Civilization

If you like when there are themes nature and civilization at war against each other, you should check out:

• Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
• The Scarlet Letter, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
• Lord of the Flies, by William Golding

The climb to ruined farmhouse Top Withens, thought to have inspired the Earnshaws' home in Wuthering Heights*

*Wikipedia.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS BY EMILY BRONTE // ANIMATED BOOK SUMMARY

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