1. DO NOW
Walk around the classroom, and read the prose analysis essays. List the pros and cons on each sheet.

2. Realism & Naturalism (1850-1900)
Literary Movements
A literary movement is a trend in writing that holds similar characteristics/themes
Postmodernism (1960-?)
Modernism ( )
Realism & Naturalism ( )
Romanticism ( )

3. Comparison Modernism Post Modernism
Master Narrative & Grand Theories of Life
Faith in social and cultural unity, hierarchies of social-class and ethnic/national values
Belief in technology
Local/contingent Narratives & Theories
Social and cultural pluralism, disunity, unclear bases for social/national
/ethnic unity.
Questioning technology

4. Sense of unified self; "individualism“
Modernism
Postmodernism
Sense of fragmentation and decentered self;   multiple, conflicting identities.
Alternative family units, alternatives to middle-class marriage model, multiple identities for couplings and childraising
Fragmentation
Sense of unified self;   "individualism“
Idea of "the family" as central unit of social order: model of the middle-class, nuclear family.
Order

5. Why? Modernism Postmodernism Rise of Automation= Man conquering God!
Cars!
Phones!
Flight!
World Wars = Good v. Evil
Man was ultimate evil, not a devil
So….Man could be Good
Civil Rights Movement = New Voices Heard
Rise of Globalization = New Understanding of the “other”

6. What movement does Bluest Eye most fit?

7. Comparison Romanticism Realism/Naturalism
the idea of nature as a powerful spiritual force
the descriptions of the countryside
a constant, elevated emotional level and passion
a desire to rise above the limitations of ordinary human existence
Reality closely detailed, even at the expense of a well-made plot
Character is more important than action with complex ethical choices as subject.
Class is important

8. (Comparison cont.) Romanticism Realism/Naturalism
Diction is natural vernacular, not romanticized.
Objective POV preferred
Realistic novels avoid the sensational, fantastic, and dramatic elements
a strong interest in death
a portrayal of opposites, including escape and pursuit, calmness and turbulence, upper and lower classes, and suffering and peace.
isolation, both emotional and geographical
elements of the supernatural

9. Why? Romanticim Realism/Naturalism
Industrial Revolution in Europe = fear of machines/change
Rise of cities = renewed focus on the sublimity of nature
Reaction “Rationalism” = stress strong emotion as the source of beauty, art, and knowledge.
After the Civil War = Southern “Romantic” Aristocracy was NOT cool
Establishment of Urbanization and Industrialization = awareness of class and poverty

10. Where do our short stories fit?
“A & P”
“Interpreter of Maladies”
“Hills Like White Elephants”
“The Story of an Hour”
“The Destructors”
Modernism
Post- Modernism
Realism
Post-Modernism

11. And… “Young Goodman Brown” “Miss Brill” “Welding with Children”
“Everyday Use”
“Civil War”
Romanticim
Realism
PostModernism
Postmodernism

12. It doesn’t all fit…. Or does it?
Not modernism….
but Harlem Renaissance
Not modernism…
but after the suffragist movement
“Gilded Six-Bits” (1933)
“A Jury of Her Peers” (1918)

13. Wuthering Heights: Romanticism

14. syntactic permutation
Sentences that are extraordinarily complex and involved. Often difficult for a reader to follow.
“He had the hypocrisy to represent a mourner: and previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!‘”

15. Homework
Read Chpts 1-2

16. Do Now: Prose Analysis Essay!
Homework: Read Chpts 3-4

17. Do Now: Quiz Review the first two pages of the novel, and then answer:
A. Who is speaking, and to whom does he speak?
B. What do we know about the relationship between the two men?
C. When the narrator says “I have just returned from a visit to my landlord,” to where has he returned? And from where?

18. Characters
Who’s Who?
Who’s Where?
Who’s in Charge?”

19. Groups Thrushcross Grange Wuthering Heights Group 1 Group 2-6
Examine the two locations
Thrushcross Grange
Wuthering Heights
Lockwood
Heathcliff
Joseph
Mrs. Heathcliff
Hareton Earnshaw

20. Thrushcross Grange
Wuthering Heights

21. Homework
As you read, identify how characters move & change power, and what social restraints affect them.
Chpt 5-6

22. Industrial Revolution & Social Class

23. Emily Brontë wrote Wuthering Heights…
circa 1847.
during a time when capitalism and the Industrial Revolution were the dominant forces in the British economy and society.

24. Social Changes... led to violence –
Groups opposed to the growing industrialization of England, such as the Luddites, engaged in violent riots, destroying wool and cotton mills.

25. Social Changes... affected concepts of “wealth” –
While wealth had traditionally been measured by land ownership, the eighteenth century had begun a trend toward a cash-based economy.

26. Social Changes... created a middle class –
The Industrial Revolution created a middle class that was in many ways more economically powerful than its landowning superiors (gentry).
caused roles of social classes to waver –
The power of yeomen, or the respectable farming class, as well as the traditional power-holding gentry was challenged by the newly wealthy capitalists.

27. Social Changes...
Each of these classes is represented in the novel by various characters.
Hareton is a member of the respectable farming class
the Lintons are members of the gentry
Heathcliff makes his fortune (somewhat mysteriously) as a capitalist

28. Why does this matter?
The changing notion of a gentleman and the shifting relationship between the classes are found in Wuthering Heights when a gentry member marries a new capitalist, a union that would never have occurred if not for the changing status of the capitalists.

29. Why does this matter?
As the economic power of the new capitalists grew, so did their demand for political power. With the increase in political power came the movement for social acceptance.
Wealthy industrialists challenged the traditional definition of a gentleman and claimed the right to be called gentleman by right of birth, but he also needed to possess an upstanding moral character.

30. Are Dates Important? 1757: the year of Hindley’s Birth
Early start of the Seven Years War involving France and England, fought in the colonies and Europe
1803: the year of Heathcliff’s Death
The Colonies have become a free nation…
England declares war on France again…
Ireland is rebelling…

31. Plot Lines Assignment Mark the events and dates for each character
Ex. 1801—Lockwood meets with Heathcliff
If you see a date, research what was going on in England/the World at that date
1801—United Kingdom is formed with Ireland

32. Do Now
Anticipation Guide

33. Themes REVENGE NATURE VERSUS CIVILIZATION
FAMILY HISTORY AND SIBLING RIVALRY
ROMANTIC OR ILL-FATED LOVE
   
REVENGE
NATURE VERSUS CIVILIZATION

34. Moor: a tract of open uncultivated upland; a heath

35. Homework
Read Chpts 7-8
Begin tracking themes in the novel

36. Do Now: Quiz After Author’s Presentation:
What elements from Bronte’s life are apparent in the novel?

37. On the board, write who narrates each chapter so far
Do Now
On the board, write who narrates each chapter so far

38. Wuthering Heights: The Narrators
Mr. Lockwood
Ellen (Nelly) Dean

39. Wuthering Heights: The Narrators
Lockwood
Nelly
Renter of Thrushcross Grange
Male
Formally educated
city man; affluent
an “outsider”
Longtime servant of the Earnshaws
Female
Self-educated
a local (never traveled)
a participant

40. Who else do you wish you heard from?
What is the most interesting part of the story so far?

41. Ghost Chapter Competition
You may choose any character in the story.
You may choose any event up to the end of chapter 14.
Ghost Chapter is due next Monday—along with reading chpts 9-14.