1. Gothic Unit: ‘Wuthering Heights,’ Emily Bronte
Lesson 2: Chapters 2 and 3
Lockwood’s expectations of setting and Yorkshire conventions
The supernatural
Psycho analytical interpretations

2. Quiz
Memory test for first three chapters

3. Chapter Two
Lockwood repeats his visit to Wuthering Heights and meets Hareton and Catherine Heathcliff.
Lockwood is obliged to spend the night due to adverse weather conditions.

4. Yorkshire conventions
Structural and social differences
Lockwood’s expectations
Yorkshire conventions
Desire to dine at 5pm.

5. ‘Yorkshire’ glossary Whet are ye for? What do you want? I’ t’ fowld
In the field
Ut’ laithe
In the barn
Flaysome
Fearful
Discussed
Ate
Un war
And worse
A nowt
A nothing, useless
Agait
afoot
Nobbut
Strictly; nothing but, no one but
Shoo
She
Wisht!
Hush!

6. Point of view and reliability
How reliable is Lockwood as a narrator? 10 minute response.
Unreliable observer (dead rabbits/cushion of cats)
Antagonistic behaviour towards Hareton.

7. Chapter 3
Lockwood sleeps in a forbidden, secret room, and encounters the ghost of Catherine, much to Heathcliff’s distress.

8. Text within a text/ bed within a library
WH provides much intertextuality including biblical quotations, Catherine’s diary and letters.
Palimpsest= a text that is overwritten with other narrative and messages.

9. Critical approach: J. Hillis Miller (deconstructivist)
Palimpsestic nature of the texts= each text is a commentary on the previous one. Catherine’s diary described by Lockwood Diary written in margin of Branderham’s sermon Sermon is commentary of New Testament (Jesus asking followers for forgiveness, parable form)

10. Dreams
Write a summary of both dreams.

11. Psychoanalytical reading
Dreams= thinking through the forbidden. In her childhood, Bronte was told supernatural stories from the Northern servants. Novel itself is a dream, a fiction of the mind? Boundaries between the self and world are broken down.

12. Homework
How has Bronte presented the supernatural within chapters 1-3 of Wuthering Heights?