The Dark Side of the Moors

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

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Learning Objectives:

        After listening to the presentation, the audience should be able to further understand both Gothic and Victorian literature as well the time period. In addition, they should be able to identify Emily Bronte’s style of writing and recognize her argument that the Victorian time period will never conceal the authentic desires that were accepted in the Gothic Era. Also, the view should be able to identify romantic aspects in literature and in Wuthering Heights.

Helpful Literary Devices:

Gothic Imagery:  elements of fear, horror, death, and gloom, as well as romantic elements, such as nature, individuality, and very high emotion.

Pastel Imagery: dealing with shepherds or rural life in a usually artificial manner and typically drawing a contrast between the innocence and serenity of the simple life and the misery and corruption of city

Pathetic Fallacy: attributing of human emotion and conduct to all aspects within nature.  

“Alone” by Edgar Allan Poe

From childhood’s hour I have not been

As others were—I have not seen

As others saw—I could not bring

My passions from a common spring—

From the same source I have not taken

My sorrow—I could not awaken

My heart to joy at the same tone—

And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone—

Then—in my childhood—in the dawn

Of a most stormy life—was drawn

From ev’ry depth of good and ill

The mystery which binds me still—

From the torrent, or the fountain—

From the red cliff of the mountain—

From the sun that ’round me roll’d

In its autumn tint of gold—

From the lightning in the sky

As it pass’d me flying by—

From the thunder, and the storm—

And the cloud that took the form

(When the rest of Heaven was blue)

Of a demon in my view—

Notes:

Romanticism-

Who was Emily Bronte?

What made up Gothic literature?

Prose Passage from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte