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The Wuthering HeightsDescriptionThis assignment is about Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights (1847). Norton Critical Edition. New York: WW Norton and Company. 2003.Wuthering Heights 3-187Start with YOUR questions – what do you find confusing? interesting? So far, you’ve asked the following:Notice just how many narrators there are: Lockwood relies on Nelly, who in turn quotes Isabella and Catherine (and there’ll be a couple of others later on too). Contrast Wuthering Heights with other narratives you’ve read with either one third-person narrator (as in Pride and Prejudice) or one first-person narrator. This novel has a lot in common with an EPISTOLARY style–look that up, and see if you agree. What would this narrative be like if there were only one narrative point of view. Are any of these narrators RELIABLE? how can you tell? What’s the advantage for a writer of having so many perspectives?What’s the deal with the relationship between Heathcliff and Catherine? do you think their love i

s passionate and noble; or obsessive, violent, and dysfunctional? (I’ve always thought the latter – I like this novel because of just how much I can’t stand the characters!). Are these characters likable? why or why not?This isn’t a purely GOTHIC novel, but it has a lot of Gothic elements. Investigate this term a bit (see link to the British Library’s pages, under Week 7). What do you think is Gothic about the novel? how does that affect its meaning or interest for you? preview of the answer…The Wuthering Heights is a story about revenge instead of that straightforward and intense love story. The story follows closely the life of Heathcliff who is rather a mysterious gipsy-like person. He rose in his adopted family whereby he later came to the level of a servant. The man decided to run away when another man married the woman he had fallen in love. He came back educated and wealthy with revenge guts on the families that he believed ruined his life.APA 499 words
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