Wuthering Heights and The Haunting of hill house
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WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE
TAYLOR GUTHRIEPRESENTATIONADAM COLTON
DECEMBER 9, 2013
THESIS Although these two books share many
differences, their similarities with a creepy house, complex relationships between characters and eerie settings show many similarities and how the authors both had a similar theme.
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:INTRODUCTION Story begins in 1801 Main character, Lockword, visits his
landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, at a manor called Wuthering Heights
Decides to visit Mr. Heathcliff again not long after and when he arrives the weather becomes to bad for him to walk home
During his stay there, he half awakes to a ghostly hand sobbing the name “Catherine Linton”
He runs home full of fear
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:INTRODUCTION CONTINUED Thinking about the night before, the
next day Lockword asks his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him the strange history of Wuthering Heights and what happened there
Nelly used to be a housekeeper at Wuthering Heights so she begins to tell Lockword everything she knew
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT Mr. Heathcliff was adopted as a child
and falls in love with his step sister, Catherine
Hindley, his step brother, hated him and at Christmas he locked Heathcliff in the attack upstairs
Years later, Hindley gets married to a girl named Frances but she dies shortly after while giving birth to a baby boy, Hareton
Catherine beings to fall in love with her neighbor Edgar, Mr. Linton’s son
Heathcliff is very upset and humiliated
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT CONTINUED Edgar asks Catherine to marry him and
she says yes Heathcliff runs away after hearing the
news and Catherine almost dies while searching for him in the cold
Catherine recovers from being sick but kills Mr. and Mrs. Linton with her disease
Edgar and Catherine get married three years later
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT CONTINUED Heathcliff returns home six months after
their marriage Heathcliff has grown into a polished,
handsome and wealthy man Catherine is more than happy to see
him Edgar’s sister, Isabella, falls in love with
Heathcliff Edgar can see Catherine still loves
Heathcliff and tells her to choose between them so she locks herself in a room but becomes very sick
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT CONTINUED The same night Catherine recovers,
Isabella and Heathcliff elope Months later, Isabella runs to Nelly and
tells her that Wuthering Heights is terrible, Healthcliff treats her horribly and Hindley is obsessed with killing Heathcliff
Heathcliff demands to see Catherine when she gets sick again and near death
Catherine admits to Heathcliff she cannot live without him
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT CONTINUED Catherine dies that night giving birth
two months prematurely to baby Catherine
Soon after, Isabella leaves Wuthering Heights for London and gives birth to Linton
Isabella dies when Linton is twelve so he goes to Wuthering Heights to live with his father where he treats him like property
Six months after Catherine’s death, Hindley dies and Heathcliff takes over Wuthering Heights
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT CONTINUED Catherine grows up with no knowledge
of Wuthering Heights until she escapes to find out
Heathcliff wants Catherine and Linton to get married and makes her visit Linton when he is very sick
Heathcliff locks Catherine and Nelly in the house until Catherin and Linton are married
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:ENDING The story Nelly tells Lockwood about
Wuthering Heights is reaching to present day
Edgar passes away soon after they are married
Heathcliff removes half of the original Catherine’s coffin so that a side of her can be with Edgar and the other side will be by Heathcliff when he dies
Nelly has not seen Catherine since Nelly left Wuthering Heights
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:ENDING CONTINUED Nelly wants Catherine to come live with
her and thinks the only thing that can save her is another marriage
After hearing this story, Lockwood plans to tell Heathcliff he is moving to London for six months to find another tenant
He does not want to spend another winter in such strange company
Lockwood goes to end his tenancy at Wuthering Heights and takes Catherine a note from Nelly
WUTHERING HEIGHTS:ENDING CONTINUED Lockwood returns six months later to
find that Nelly had moved back into Wuthering Heights
Heathcliff is dying and when he does, Catherine and Hareton will get married
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEINTRODUCTION Story begins in the 1950s Dr. John Montague is a doctor of
philosophy that has been searching his entire life for a real haunted house
He discovers a house called Hill House He needs assistants to join him so he
writes to twelve while only two agreed to come with him
The two assistants are Eleanor Vance and Theodora
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEINTRODUCTION CONTINUED Dr. Montague tells the girls not to stop
anywhere on the way to Hill House due to people being unfriendly when mentioned
Eleanor stops anyway to find out as much as possible
When Eleanor arrives at the house, Mr. Dudley, the care taker, warns her about the dangers
She says the house is vile and shivers at the sight of it
She wishes she had turned back at the gate
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEINTRODUCTION CONTINUED Mrs. Dudley shows her to her room and
says dinner is ready at six o’clock sharp because she leaves directly after to avoid the night
Theodora teases Eleanor about being scared and comforts her greatly
Luke also joins them in the house. He is a member of the family who owns the house
Dr. Montague plans to write a book about their experience
Theodora and Eleanor beg Dr. Montague to tell them what is going to happen to them
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT Dr. Montague says he discovered a tale
of a suicide, madness and lawsuits connected to Hill House
He chooses Theodora and Eleanor as assistants because Theodora has documented telepathic ability and Eleanor has been involved with poltergeist phenomena when she was younger
Dr. Montague goes on with the story
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT CONTINUED Hugh Crain built the house. Before his
wife saw the house, her carriage overturned in the driveway and killed her instantly
The second woman he married died unexpectedly in a fall
His third wife died of tuberculosis He had two daughters, his youngest
committed suicide Huge Crain designed every angle of the
house to be slightly off and that is why they always got lost
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT CONTINUED In the nursery is a big cold spot, it
seemed to be the most haunted room in the house
The first night they all slept well but the second night the girls awoke to a crashing sound outside the door
The boys did not hear the crash at all The next day, written on the wall in
huge chalk letters said “HELP ELEANOR COME HOME” but Theodora was the one who did it to scare Eleanor
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT CONTINUED Then, in Theodora’s room written on the
wall in red paint it said “HELP ELEANOR COME HOME ELEANOR”
Eleanor was not frightened at all this time and they believe she might have been the one to do it
That night, the girls stayed in Eleanor’s room. Eleanor hears crazy laughter and babbling in Theodora's room. She hears a child’s voice and screams, Theo wakes up and Eleanor wonders who hands she was holding
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT CONTINUED Eleanor starts to like Luke, Theo mocks
Eleanor about it Dr. Montague’s wife comes to the house
to see if she can feel or hear anything That night, Eleanor hears the crashing
sound and tiny laughter again. Mrs. Montague claims she heard nothing at all
Eleanor constantly says “Journeys ending in lovers meeting” throughout the book. She wants to live with Theodora after summer because for once she is finally happy
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT CONTINUED Late that night, Eleanor can not sleep so
she goes by the library and hears her mothers voice so she follows it
Everyone in the house begins looking for Eleanor and she prances through the house hiding from them
She begins to climb the iron staircase to the tower and Luke risks his life with the unstable staircase and goes up to get her and bring her down
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEENDING The next morning, Dr. Montague says
she has to pack her things and leave. He thinks it is unsafe for her to be in the house
Eleanor laughs and says she can’t leave and that the house wants her to stay
They will not let her back in and make her get in her car to go home
She says they cannot make her leave again as she goes to her car
As she goes to leave she drives her car right into the looming tree and crashes
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEENDING CONTINUED They all leave the house after that and
go back to their original lives The house had very strong feelings for
Eleanor and would not let her go The evil in the house acted through
negative emotions and possessed her The same tree that took two other lives
took Eleanor's
THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEENDING CONTINUED She shakes off the possession just in
time to witness her own death, she had no idea what she was doing the last second before she died
Throughout Eleanor and Theodor’s time there, they acted like the two sisters who used to live there
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