Wuthering Heights context (social,literary,historical &political)
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- Wuthering Heights Context
- Social
- Industrial revolution
- Historical
- Victorian period
- Strict morals and values
- slow social mobility
- Thrushcross Grange can be viewed as a 'Victorian ideal'
- Wuthering Heights contrasts with this - represents freedom and escape
- Strict morals and values
- American revolution
- More common men prevailing over old power and wealth
- Can be seen with Heathcliff's social mobility
- 'Underdog' character
- Old money vs. new money
- Can be seen with Heathcliff's social mobility
- More common men prevailing over old power and wealth
- Victorian period
- Created many jobs
- abandonment of the countryside
- Ruined the natural landscape
- City vs. rural
- Bronte grew up in the moors
- increasing urbanisation
- more reliance on man and less on the strong beliefs of God
- contrast to what Bronte was used to
- Religious upbringing
- Her father worked in the church
- Religious upbringing
- contrast to what Bronte was used to
- more reliance on man and less on the strong beliefs of God
- City vs. rural
- Historical
- Industrial revolution
- Political
- American revolution
- More common men prevailing over old power and wealth
- Can be seen with Heathcliff's social mobility
- 'Underdog' character
- Old money vs. new money
- Can be seen with Heathcliff's social mobility
- More common men prevailing over old power and wealth
- Female ruler Queen victoria
- Bronte created Cathy to be a powerful female - strong willed
- Made Nelly the dominant narrator - female voice
- Historical
- Victorian period
- Strict morals and values
- slow social mobility
- Thrushcross Grange can be viewed as a 'Victorian ideal'
- Wuthering Heights contrasts with this - represents freedom and escape
- Strict morals and values
- Victorian period
- Bronte created Cathy to be a powerful female - strong willed
- American revolution
- Literary
- Bronte sisters had to publish under male pseudonyms
- Wanted to receive fair criticism as a man would
- Exploration of genres
- Gothic vs. Romantic
- Her mother died when she was young
- reflects the fine line between love and death in the novel
- Her mother died when she was young
- Gothic vs. Romantic
- Chinese box structure
- unconventional of Victorian literature
- Bronte sisters had to publish under male pseudonyms
- Social
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