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Wuthering Heights By Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights By Emily Brontë. The Haunting of Hill House By Shirley Jackson. Wuthering Heights. Background. Published in 1847 Based partly on the Gothic tradition of the late eighteenth century Style of literature featured: Supernatural encounters Crumbling ruins Moonless nights

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Wuthering Heights By Emily Brontë

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  1. Wuthering HeightsBy Emily Brontë The Haunting of Hill House By Shirley Jackson

  2. Wuthering Heights Background • Published in 1847 • Based partly on the Gothic tradition of the late eighteenth century • Style of literature featured: • Supernatural encounters • Crumbling ruins • Moonless nights • Grotesque imagery • Mystery • Fear

  3. The Haunting of Hill House Background • Published in 1959 • Apart of the Penguin Horror series • Collection of novels, stories, and poems curated by Guillermo del Toro • Considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the twentieth century • Utilizes complex relationships between: • Mysterious events in the house • The characters’ psyches

  4. Main Characters Wuthering Heights The Haunting of Hill House Eleanor Vance Dr. Montague Mrs. Montague Luke Sanderson Theodora Arthur • Mr. Lockwood • Mrs. Ellen Dean • HindleyEarnshaw • Catherine Earnshaw • Heathcliff • Edgar Linton • Isabella Linton

  5. Main Theme • Supernatural manifestations • Ghosts • Wuthering Heights • Mr. Lockwood comes in contact with Catherine’s spirit • Heathcliff is driven mad by Catherine’s spirit every night eventually leading to his death • The Haunting of Hill House • Dr. Montague is a professional analysis of supernatural manifestations • Wants to study a “haunted” house – Hill House • Assembles a crew to go there based on their accounts of abnormal events • Eleanor hears voices in her head • Thinks Hill House is her home and she can’t leave • Mrs. Montague and Arthur use a planchette • Talk to spirits • Says its “Eleanor Nellie Nell Nell”

  6. Themes Along With Semester • Biggest stand out • Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” • Also in the Penguin Horror series • Haunted by the loss of a loved one • Poe Lenore • Heathcliff Catherine • Voices inside one’s head • The narrator thinks there’s something at his chamber door • Eleanor thinks she hears her mother calling her *Adaptations have been made to all three of these literary works*

  7. Work Cited • http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/wuthering/context.html • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Haunting_of_Hill_House

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