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Wuthering Heights Emily Bront Introduction Background Discussion Starters Menu Slide 2 Wuthering Heights Emily Bront Images provided by Jupiter Images and Shutterstock. Slide 3 Wuthering Heights Emily Bront Slide 4 Wuthering Heights: Introduction Is true love stronger than death? Slide 5 Wuthering Heights: Introduction In the late 1700s, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up together at Wuthering Heights, Cathys family home on the northern English moors. Slide 6 Wuthering Heights: Introduction Heathcliff arrives as a gypsy foundling. Cathys father, Mr. Earnshaw, raises him as a son. Cathy is a strong-willed beauty who shares Heathcliffs wild nature. Slide 7 Wuthering Heights: Introduction Alone together on the moors, Cathy and Heathcliff feel as if they are soul mates. But to Heathcliffs despair, outside forces begin to pull them apart. Slide 8 Wuthering Heights: Introduction Edgar Linton, the Earnshaws neighbor, draws Cathy into the genteel world of Thrushcross Grange. Slide 9 Wuthering Heights: Introduction We learn Cathy and Heathcliffs story in flashbacks. As the novel begins, Cathy is long dead. Yet even in death, she has an unbreakable hold on Heathcliff. Slide 10 Wuthering Heights: Introduction Heathcliff is now master of Wuthering Heights and also of Thrushcross Grange. Slide 11 Wuthering Heights: Introduction The wild gypsy boy has become a rich man, and also a cold, cruel, tormented one. How? Why? Slide 12 Wuthering Heights: Introduction Wuthering Heights is a romantic tale of intense, tragic love the kind of love that leads to madness and destruction. Does Heathcliff and Cathys love also bring hope for redemption? Slide 13 Wuthering Heights: Background The landscape of this novel is a raw, powerful forcealmost a character in itself. The novel takes place on the moors of Yorkshire in northern England. Slide 14 Wuthering Heights: Background A moor is a large, open area of marshy land. It often has a top layer of peat, or decayed plant matter. Peat may be dried and used for fuel. Slide 15 Wuthering Heights: Background The Yorkshire moors are covered with wild heath, or heather. Slide 16 Wuthering Heights: Background Dark sandstone crags, or cliffs, help create an atmosphere of desolation. Slide 17 Wuthering Heights: Background Emily Bront lived most of her life in Yorkshire. As children, she and her sisters and brother played on the moors much as Cathy and Heathcliff do in Bronts novel. Slide 18 Wuthering Heights: Background Not surprisingly, this landscape helped inspire the dark romanticism of Wuthering Heights. Slide 19 Wuthering Heights: Discussion Starters Discuss (1) Is love a decision, or is it more like a force of nature? When is love a positive, creative force? When is it a destructive one? Slide 20 Wuthering Heights: Discussion Starters Discuss (2) In what ways do our surroundingsthe places where we livehelp shape our personalities? Can people change significantly? Or do their basic natures always stay the same?