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
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A very complex element of Emily Bronte ’s writing technique is the narrative style she uses when alternating between the two characters of Nelly Dean and Lockwood. Wuthering Heights is a story told through eye witness accounts‚ first through Lockwood‚ followed by Nelly. Lockwood ’s responsibility is shaping the framework of the novel wheras Nelly provides the intricate recount of the personal lives of all the characters having been present first hand. Although‚ each character does have a different
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Wuthering Heights Relation to Emily Bronte’s life Characterization: 1. Hindley- Bronte used the character of Hindley to represent her brother. Emily Bronte’s brother drank himself to death just as Hindley did. 2. Edgar- When Catherine died‚ Edgar became exceedingly private and quiet. Edgar represents Emily Bronte’s own father. When Bronte’s mother died‚ her father followed the same pattern that Edgar did by secluding himself and becoming very quiet. 3. Catherine- Emily Bronte
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We are able to see in the first chapter that‚ Wuthering Heights‚ is a dark and isolated place. This is the area in which the character of Heathcliffe lives along with other members of his household. He is shown to live in a dark dwelling and it is described as being ‘the atmospheric tumult to which its station is exposed to stormy weather’. Due to the name ‘Wuthering’ also meaning stormy we are able to get a clear view that the area is gloomy and murky representing and almost gothic feel. It could
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Heathcliff‚ the main character in Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte‚ has no heart. He is evil to the core - so savage that his lone purpose is to ruin others. Yet at the very moment at which the reader would be expected to feel the most antipathy towards the brute -after he has destroyed his wife‚ after he has degraded the life of a potentially great man‚ and after he has watched the death of his son occur with no care nor concern‚ the reader finds himself feeling strangely sympathetic towards this
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All the tragedy‚ murder‚ and despair in Frankenstein occurs because of a lack of connection to either family or people in general. The true evil in Frankenstein is not Victor or FM‚ but isolation and solitude. When Victor becomes lost in his studies he removes himself from human society‚ and therefore loses sight of his responsibilities and the consequences of his actions. FM becomes vengeful not because he’s evil‚ but because his isolation creates overwhelming hate and anger towards Victor. It becomes
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Frankenstein: The Theme of Abortion Most of us have read the novel Frankenstein. There are many themes that come along with one of the first gothic‚ romantic science fiction novels of the 17th century. Mary Shelly used her background life to create this horror book. She influenced future horror films for decades to come‚ Halloween costume ideas and quote upon quotes. Although this book carried the obvious Halloween-feel themes Shelly had a greater meaning for the book. Shelly believed in the need
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Goal: to evaluate the themes in the novel and apply these themes to a larger truth about life. Directions: Please choose Option One OR Option 2- you do not need to do both. Option One: FRANKENSTEIN: Themes of the novel Remember a theme is a moral or lesson within a story. However‚ authors are not always trying to teach their readers a lesson; sometimes they are just making observations about life and human nature. Some‚ but not all‚ of the themes of Frankenstein are beauty‚ revenge‚
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invention to control nature’s chaos" (Paglia‚ 1990:1). Members of this group rationalize the world by classifying things‚ using manners‚ and analyzing behaviors. Clarity‚ restraint‚ and harmony characterize the Apollonian. In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights the circular plot shows the difficulties and the extremes of Apollonian and daemonic personalities interacting can cause and the changes that need to occur to resolve the conflict. Heathcliff and Edgar inhabit opposing ends of the spectrum and
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The texts that I have studied and prepared for my comparative course are: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte‚ Translations by Brian Friel‚ and I’m not scared directed by Gabriel Salvatores. When I address the cultural context of a text I refer to the worlds of the texts‚ the circumstances which face the plots and the characters of the texts. Some elements of the cultural context of each and every text are the world’s attitudes‚ social rituals‚ and structures. Coming to grips with the general norm
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