Senior Project ReviewWuthering Heights Focus

Final results TuesdaySelf Reflection/ Peer Reflection

DiscussionCharacter Patterns and Theme

Final judging sheets are coming in, Results Tuesday

• What comments did you receive?• Self grade and Peer grade• Overall comments: those who watched presentations did

better overall• Judges want to see more focus on the paper, process –

how you are affected by the Senior Project• Judges were impressed by how much you have grown• Final comments:• Make sure you focus on each part of the project, do not

put all of your eggs in one basket• CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Patterns in literature

• When characters develop readers notice patterns in their behavior, triggers set of similar responses and reactions.

• To recognize the patterns of characters you must look at the patterns found in the genre.

• Gothic Literature: elements associated with the Gothic novel

Elements of the Gothic NovelWhat did you find? Connect the patterns of genre

to the novel• Mysterious/exotic• Complex characters,

complex plot• Contrasting elements• Details• Morbid setting of main

plot/ pleasant setting of sub-plot

• Villains/ angels• foils

• Rolling moors, limited vision, What is beyond the hills?

• Heathcliff: love for Catherine, hate for Linton, despise Catherine: death scene

• Wuthering Heights/ Thrushcross Grange

• Hareton/Linton• Joseph/Nelly Dean

Patterns of genre cont.

• Emphasis on character reaction, not realistic nature

• Perverse and unnatural• Pleasure within pain• Relies on reader’s

interpretation to create meaning, meaning is not inherent

• Dark- rejection of reason• Grotesque elements as

seen in character, setting, and plot

• Heathcliff: death of Catherine promotes further revenge seeking actions Linton death of Catherine promotes rejection of quality of life, distance from family, depression

• Catherine: why reject the man she loves to marry another to help the original? Is Cathy following the same pattern as her mother?

Narrator

• Who are the narrators?

• Who is the principle narrator?

• What bias does this add to the novel?

• Why choose this narrator?

Critical Themes

• Death, dying• Love (What type/ how displayed?)• Revenge: Reaction over reason• Duality: Wuthering Heights/Thrushcross

Grange Lintons/Heathcliff, Isabelle/ Heathcliff, Cathy/Catherine, Hareton/Linton

• Evil overrides good• Pleasure with pain

Patterns in opposition

• Chapter 17, close to 18 reactions of fathers towards offspring (179)

• Chapter 9 Catherine’s reasons for marrying: focus on irony and contradiction

• Chapter 10: Arrival of Heathcliff at Thrushcross Grange• Nelly cares for Hareton (8), Nelly cares for Linton (19)• Two sides of Catherine (8) (11)• Reflection of Heathcliff’s change, development in the

end: control in and out, similarities to Catherine, (14) (33-34 )

• Cathy similarities to Catherine (18)