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)
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