##3 Historical Context
So, I read the Victorian packet thingy that Mrs. T gave us but.... I didn't quite understand it that well. So, I looked up some stuff about that time period and about Emily Bronte's life and it said that she modeled some of the character's after real people in her life, also some of the events too. I think that's pretty cool. She tried to portray Hindley as her own brother Branwell and made the character go through the same torture as her brother did. I love it when writers do that, tie themselves and their surroundings into the books.
Thursday, December 2, 2010
Victorian------Wuthering Heights
##2 Romance
I've noticed that Wuthering Heights has several types of love, romance and relationships. You have the friendship, love and adoration between Mr. Lockwood and Heathcliff but also the irrevocable and unconditional love between Heathcliff and Cathy. I think it is kind of ironic how Heathcliff is in the middle of everything lol. But also all the other kinds of love with the other people, Isabel, Hindley, Mr. Earnshaw, Linton, and all of the others. There's so much love and jealousy that it is making people insane, but I guess that's what love does to you.
I've noticed that Wuthering Heights has several types of love, romance and relationships. You have the friendship, love and adoration between Mr. Lockwood and Heathcliff but also the irrevocable and unconditional love between Heathcliff and Cathy. I think it is kind of ironic how Heathcliff is in the middle of everything lol. But also all the other kinds of love with the other people, Isabel, Hindley, Mr. Earnshaw, Linton, and all of the others. There's so much love and jealousy that it is making people insane, but I guess that's what love does to you.
Victorian---Wuthering Heights
##4--(#1) Metaphors
In chapter 7 when it says "Joseph and I joined at an unsociable meal, seasoned with reproofs" I like the metaphor how he compares reproofs to condiments lol. I don't know why that struck me as funny, and when it says, "the stab of a knife could not inflict a worse pang than he suffered at seeing his lady vexed." in chapter 10, it also uses a metaphor. I like this one better than the first. It compares the effect of vexation to a knife. There's a bunch more, but I liked these two the best.
In chapter 7 when it says "Joseph and I joined at an unsociable meal, seasoned with reproofs" I like the metaphor how he compares reproofs to condiments lol. I don't know why that struck me as funny, and when it says, "the stab of a knife could not inflict a worse pang than he suffered at seeing his lady vexed." in chapter 10, it also uses a metaphor. I like this one better than the first. It compares the effect of vexation to a knife. There's a bunch more, but I liked these two the best.
Victorian---Wuthering Heights
##1----Imagery
The first thing I noticed about this book was how descriptive it was. I liked how it described Heathcliff on page 11, "a dark skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman." Its so true and it slowly reveals that as the story progresses and Lockwood is with Heathcliff. As far as the scenary goes, it does an awesome job at providing the explanation towards Wuthering Heights as wells as everything else. He describes it as, "This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us." I like that, "a perfect...." I could picture everything that Lockwood and the others described.
The first thing I noticed about this book was how descriptive it was. I liked how it described Heathcliff on page 11, "a dark skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentleman." Its so true and it slowly reveals that as the story progresses and Lockwood is with Heathcliff. As far as the scenary goes, it does an awesome job at providing the explanation towards Wuthering Heights as wells as everything else. He describes it as, "This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist's heaven: and Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us." I like that, "a perfect...." I could picture everything that Lockwood and the others described.
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