Wuthering Heights and Pride and Prejudice (Catherine Nevin and Samuel Sproule)

How Wuthering Heights challenges the constructs of the time.

Questions:

1. Why do you think books such as Jane Eyre and Pride and Prejudice have become standard readings while Wuthering Heights has not?
2. What is the significance of Heathcliff being of Gypsy descent?
3. How does the family construct of Pride and Prejudice mirror what the British were doing at the time?
4. How is Emily Brontë’s style different from Jane Austen’s?
5. Is Pride and Prejudice realistic or more of an ideal? And is Wuthering Heights reflective of real people?
6. How does Emily Brontë’s style resemble her sister’s?
7. Why do you think Wuthering Heights was so hated when it first came out?

What does this have to do with Imperialism?

Wuthering Heights:

1. Challenges the structure of a normal family at this time.
1. Catherine and Heathcliff are allowed to roam free over the moors whenever they want, and are not confined to the Heights
2. One of the main characters is not white.
1. Heathcliff is of gypsy descent.
2. Often described as wild.
3. The characters often push back against the society that constricts them

The book challenges many social constructs, and shows a darker side of living at this time, especially when one is not born with money and status, and has to work their own way up from nothing. Heathcliff pushes back against the constructs of society, and wants to marry Catherine. But, Catherine is unwilling to give up her reputation to marry him. It’s doesn’t matter that she says he, “Knows me better than I know myself.” She won’t give up the opportunity of money and status for Heathcliff. Or so he thinks.

Pride and Prejudice:

1. The first line
1. “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.”
2. The family structure:
1. Mr. Bennet spent his time trying to find husbands for all his daughters.
3. Everyone accepts the way things are.
1. Even Lizzie, who was so against marriage, eventually give in.

This book serves as more of an ideal than what really seems to happen in real life. A common theme with Jane Austen is a woman with little money and status managing to snag a man with both. Jane Austen also loves to create characters who seem a little too good to be true. People we can aspire to be, but not fully become. Elizabeth Bennet is a modern woman for this time period, often going against the wishes of her parents to please herself (when she will not marry Mr. Collins  etc.) but, by the end she has given in and does get married.

Media Portrayals of Architectural Elements of the British Empire (1830’s)-Morgan Walsh, Steven Kimball, Ava Myette

Media Portrayals of Architectural Elements of the British Empire (1830’s)

What are the images?

  
View Of The Choir Of St.George's Chapel, Windsor. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Morning. 62nd ed. Vol. 2. London, 1833. Print.

The New Screen In Westminster Abbey. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. 109th ed. Vol. 4. London: n.p., 1834. N. pag. Print.

Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. 109th ed. Vol. 4. London: n.p., 1834. N. pag. Print.South West View Of Lincoln Cathedral. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. 54th ed. Vol. 2. Norton, 1833. Print.

"The Ladye Chapel", St.Saviour's, Southwark. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. London, 1833. Print.

The Saturday Magazine

• A British magazine that was published from July 7th, 1832 to December 28th, 1844
• Published by the Committee of General Literature and Education which was funded by the Society for Promoting
• Very affordable magazine that working men could understand and learn from
• The magazine began with an account of some exoctic place, other subsequent articles were about: nature, science, technology and history
• During the time of publication the British empire was expanding rapidly and people were interested in finding out about British conquest world wide

1830's British History 

• William IV succeeds George IV as monarch in 1830
• George IV dies in 1837 Queen Victoria begins her 63 year reign
• The decade was marked by a great deal of tension and unrest
• 1831: Coal Miners in Wales rally for better working conditions in Merthyr Rising
• 1838: People’s Charter was drawn up in the U.K. demanding universal suffrage
• 1839: Newport Rising , the last large scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain

Gothic Architecture

• “Gothic” originally had a negative connotation
• Evolved from the Romanesque Architecture
• It’s signature features included the pointed arch, flying buttresses and the ribbed vault
• Used often when building cathedrals, abbeys, and churches in Europe during this time

The Artifact in Relation to "The Englishman" 

"The Briton may traverse the pole or the zone,

  And boldly claim his right;

For he call such a vast domain his own,

  That the sun never sets on his might.

Let the haughty stranger seek to know

  The place of his home and birth;

And a flush will pour from cheek to brow;

  While he tells his native earth.

For a glorious charter, deny it who can,

Is breathed in the words “I’m an Englishman.”

(ll. 31-40)

The Artifact in Relation to Jane Eyre

“I looked up; he seemed to me a tall gentleman; but then I was very little; his features were large, and they and all the lines of his frame were equally harsh and prim.” (90)  

“as I was sitting with a slate in my hand, puzzling over a sum in long division, my eyes, raised in abstraction to the window, caught in sight of a figure just passing: I recognized almost instinctively that gaunt outline; … I now glanced sideways at this piece of architecture. Yes, I was right: it was Mr. Brocklehurst, buttoned up in a surtout, and looking longer, narrower, and more rigid than ever.” (124)

Works Cited 

- Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. Ed. Richard Nemesvari. Ontario: Broadview, 2004. Print.

-"Eliza Cook (1818-1889). The Englishman." Www.bartleby.com/293. Ed. Alfred H. Miles. London: -George Routledge & Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1907, Aug. 2011. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.

-Krishnamurthy, Aruna. The Working-class Intellectual in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-century Britain. Farnham, Surrey, England: Ashgate, 2009. Print.

-South West View Of Lincoln Cathedral. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. 54th ed. Vol. 2. Norton, 1833. Print.

-The New Screen In Westnminster Abbey. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. 109th ed. Vol. 4. London: n.p., 1834. N. pag.

-“The Ladye Chapel", St.Saviour's, Southwark. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Magazine. London, 1833. Print.-Bloy, Marjorie. "The Peel Web." Rural Unrest in the 1830s: The "Swing" Riots. 12 Jan. 2016. Web. 13 Feb. 2016.

-View Of The Choir Of St.George's Chapel, Windsor. 2016. Wheaton College Special Collections, Norton. Saturday Morning. 62nd ed. Vol. 2. London, 1833. Print.

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