Wuthering Heights and Madame Bovary: Essay Outline
Extended Essay – English Literature
What is the significance of setting within Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” & Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”?
Settings:
* Yorkshire moors: * Wuthering Heights * Thrush cross grange houses – architecture and landscape (wind, geography, atmosphere)
Houses reflect the people that do not live there
Houses symbolize their inhabitants
Does setting influence characters??
Abstract * State research question * Explain how investigation took place * State conclusion of essay
Introduction
* What the EE is about * Significance of setting on novels * What are the two novels talked about: background knowledge & contextual understanding, reference to author’s history (culture, context & target language) * Wuthering heights (Bronte) * Madame Bovary (Flaubert) * Contribution to society of the EE * English literature * True appreciation of setting/ it’s significance to novels & author’s
Investigation
* Own interpretations & engagement to text * Other’s interpretations
*argument on answering the question
Body * Knowledge and understanding of texts: references to text of how setting is significant in each text, the effect it has on the development of the plot * Quotations: exact & precise, to the point to back up the argument * Arguments answering the question: high vocabulary, quotations & solid arguments on how a specific setting is so significant, and may be compare it to culture or background information of each text * Own interpretations backed up with quotations: interpretation, evidence & analysis to it
Conclusion * Consistent with ideas and arguments developed in essay: meaning closure to ending the response to the question * Why are arguments valid? How do I finally interpret the significance of setting in each novel? * Closure, sum up of ideas, no new ideas, concise and precise, to the point
What is the significance of setting within Emily Bronte’s “Wuthering Heights” & Gustave Flaubert’s “Madame Bovary”?
Settings:
* Yorkshire moors: * Wuthering Heights * Thrush cross grange houses – architecture and landscape (wind, geography, atmosphere)
Houses reflect the people that do not live there
Houses symbolize their inhabitants
Does setting influence characters??
Abstract * State research question * Explain how investigation took place * State conclusion of essay
Introduction
* What the EE is about * Significance of setting on novels * What are the two novels talked about: background knowledge & contextual understanding, reference to author’s history (culture, context & target language) * Wuthering heights (Bronte) * Madame Bovary (Flaubert) * Contribution to society of the EE * English literature * True appreciation of setting/ it’s significance to novels & author’s
Investigation
* Own interpretations & engagement to text * Other’s interpretations
*argument on answering the question
Body * Knowledge and understanding of texts: references to text of how setting is significant in each text, the effect it has on the development of the plot * Quotations: exact & precise, to the point to back up the argument * Arguments answering the question: high vocabulary, quotations & solid arguments on how a specific setting is so significant, and may be compare it to culture or background information of each text * Own interpretations backed up with quotations: interpretation, evidence & analysis to it
Conclusion * Consistent with ideas and arguments developed in essay: meaning closure to ending the response to the question * Why are arguments valid? How do I finally interpret the significance of setting in each novel? * Closure, sum up of ideas, no new ideas, concise and precise, to the point