1. Oppositions in the Gothic Genre
LO: To explore the use of oppositions in Wuthering Heights

2. AO4: Gothic Genre Critic Andrew Green
“Gothic is a genre that resides on the borders and extremes of experience; it thrives on oppositions and division”
“it has at its heart, uncertainty, the unsettling and indefinable”
“Bronte presents her readers with mirror images, doubles and oppositions”

3. Oppositions in Wuthering Heights
What oppositions have we encountered so far?
Good vs evil
Innocence vs guilt
Freedom vs inprisonment
Moral vs immoral
Natural vs supernatural
Living vs dead
Heights vs Grange
A world in which these types of oppositions are fixed is a stable and morally certain world.
Bronte presents a world where these oppositions are constantly changing/shifting/merging into each other.
This creates the unsettling Gothic tone. It also helps create the feelings of terror and horror.

4. Character Oppositions in Wuthering Heights
Cathy and Heathcliff
Lockwood and Heathcliff
Cathy and Catherine
Heathcliff and Hindley
Heathcliff and Hareton
Heathcliff and Linton
Heathcliff and Edgar
Linton and Hareton
Character doubles are another, separate form of Gothic opposition. Names are repeated throughout the family tree creating confusion and disorientation.
Boundaries are crossed and broken by characters and the often pass on inherited traits.