WUTHERING HEIGHTS EMILY BRONTE

EXTENDED ESSAY TEXT 2 Wuthering Heights  Lesson 7  LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel?

THE BIG PICTURE

Outstanding Progress: you will confidently explore and evaluate through detailed and sophisticated critical analysis how writers use these aspects to create meaning. Good Progress: you will show awareness of structure, form, language, themes and contexts, and comment on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted Excellent Progress: you will explore structure, form, language, themes and contexts, commenting on specific aspects with reference to how characters could be interpreted. B4 B3 B2 LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel? Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights

STARTER Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18 th /early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif, Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel? Throughout the novel Cathy goes through changes. Separate the descriptions on your sheet that relate to each stage in her life: 1)as a child 2)after she has been to Thrushcross Grange 3)later when she is older and married to Edgar, and 4)just before she dies. EXT: do you notice any lexical patterns?

HOMEWORK Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18 th /early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif, Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel? Use the grids completed in lesson to answer the following question: How does Bronte present the changing character of Catherine in the novel? Spend no more than 45 minutes maximum in writing this.

CATHY Look over your quotations grid… Add your quotations to the grid, and fill in all other sections to build your analysis. Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18 th /early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif, Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel?

CATHY – YOUR FINDINGS How does Bronte present Cathy through:  Description  Dialogue  reaction to other characters  Reactions of other characters Novel, Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (mysterious family relationships, vulnerable heroines, secrets, wild landscapes). Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18 th /early 19th century. Protagonist, Antagonist, Narrative (story-within-a-story), Point of View, Structure, Symbol, Motif, Extended Essay Text 2: Wuthering Heights LQ: Am I able to analyse Bronte’s presentation of Catherine Earnshaw in the novel? EXT: how does she compare/contrast to the characters in Othello?