Wuthering HeightsTechniques focus

Characterization: the act of creating and developing a character

Wuthering HeightsTechniques focus

Direct characterization: the writer tells / states what a character’s traits are.

Indirect characterization: the writer reveals indirectly what a character’s traits are:

* through what a character says, thinks, or does

* through a description of the character’s appearance

* through a character’s statements, thoughts, or actions

* through other others’ statements, thoughts, or

actions relating to the character

Imagery: descriptive language used in literature to create sensory experiences (sight, sound, smell, taste, touch). Imagery enriches writing by making it more

vivid, setting a tone, suggesting emotions, and guiding readers’ reactions.

Symbolism and motifs in

Wuthering Heights

The moors play an important part in

establishing the mood of Wuthering Heights.

.

The Moors

Moors are open areas,

wet, wild, and relatively

infertile.

As the novel opens, Lockwood

fears walking through the moors

at night.

Catherine and Heathcliff spend much of their childhood

escaping to and rambling on the moors,

symbolizing their wildinclinations.

Catherine and Heathcliff

are buried on the moors because0f their

fondness for the wildness

they represent.

The Moors also represent danger.

Nelly and Catherine are feared to have drowned in the moors.

GHOSTS

Lockwood is awakened by Catherine’s ghost as he slumbers at Wuthering Heights.

Heathc

Heathcliff craves the pastAnd longs for the ghostOf Catherine to haunt him.

Heathcliff

yearns for

the past

and longs

for the ghost of

Catherine to haunt him.

At the end of the novel, rumors persist that Catherine and Heathcliffroam the moors at night.

WEATHER

The extreme wind

prevalent at

Wuthering Heights

symbolizes the

hardness of its

inhabitants

Wind and rain or sleet are present

when old Mr. Earnshaw dies,

when Heathcliff leaves,

when Catherine is buried, and

when Heathcliff dies.

Windows and Doors

Wuthering Heights

characters are often

impeded by locked

windows and doors.

• LoLLoc Lockwood finds

Wuthering Heights

locked as he arrives.

Nelly and Catherine

are locked in rooms

at Wuthering Heights

with windows too

small to escape through.

Heathcliff is locked outside Wuthering

Heights and can’t get in through the

locked door or narrow window.

At other times windows are intentionally left open

• He Heathcliff opens

a window to let

Catherine’s ghost

enter.

Nelly opens a

window to let

Heathcliff enter

Catherine’s room

at Thrushcross

Grange.

Catherine’s Locket

Catherine’s Locket

Books and Education

Works Cited

Lorcher, Trent. "Symbolism in Wuthering Heights." Bright Hub. Web. 12 Mar. 2010.

“The Reader’s Guide to Emily Jane Bronte’s ‘Wuthering Heights.’” Web. 30 Mar. 2010.