Dept. of English
Assist. Prof Dr. Marwan Kadhim Mohammed
3rd Year Novel
Facts about Wuthering Heights
Full Title: Wuthering Heights
When Published: 1847
Literary Period: Victorian
Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (e.g., mysterious family
relationships, vulnerable heroines, houses full of secrets, and wild
landscapes)
Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th to early 19th century
Climax: Heathcliff and Catherine's tearful, impassioned reunion just
hours before Catherine gives birth and then dies
Antagonist: Heathcliff (we root both for and against Heathcliff)
Point of View: Nelly Dean, a housekeeper, tells the story of the Lintons
and Earnshaws to Mr. Lockwood, who passes along her story to the
reader.
Wuthering Heights Summary
Mr. Lockwood, an out-of-towner renting an estate called Thrushcross
Grange, twice visits his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, who lives at a nearby
manor called Wuthering Heights. During the first visit, Heathcliff is gruff
but compelling. During the second, Lockwood meets other mysterious
residents of Wuthering Heights, is attacked by dogs when he tries to
leave, and endures a ghostly visitation overnight. Lockwood asks the
housekeeper at the Grange, Ellen Dean (a.k.a. "Nelly"), to tell him about
Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights. She recounts a complicated story of
two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons.
Assist. Prof Dr. Marwan Kadhim Mohammed
3rd Year Novel
Facts about Wuthering Heights
Full Title: Wuthering Heights
When Published: 1847
Literary Period: Victorian
Genre: Romanticism / Realism / Gothic (e.g., mysterious family
relationships, vulnerable heroines, houses full of secrets, and wild
landscapes)
Setting: Yorkshire, England, late 18th to early 19th century
Climax: Heathcliff and Catherine's tearful, impassioned reunion just
hours before Catherine gives birth and then dies
Antagonist: Heathcliff (we root both for and against Heathcliff)
Point of View: Nelly Dean, a housekeeper, tells the story of the Lintons
and Earnshaws to Mr. Lockwood, who passes along her story to the
reader.
Wuthering Heights Summary
Mr. Lockwood, an out-of-towner renting an estate called Thrushcross
Grange, twice visits his landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, who lives at a nearby
manor called Wuthering Heights. During the first visit, Heathcliff is gruff
but compelling. During the second, Lockwood meets other mysterious
residents of Wuthering Heights, is attacked by dogs when he tries to
leave, and endures a ghostly visitation overnight. Lockwood asks the
housekeeper at the Grange, Ellen Dean (a.k.a. "Nelly"), to tell him about
Heathcliff and Wuthering Heights. She recounts a complicated story of
two families, the Earnshaws and the Lintons.
