About Bronte
The disease that took Emily's Bronte's life at the age of 30 and also killed off several members of her family.
What is tuberculosis (or consumption)?
The cause of Hindley's downward spiral into drinking and gambling
What is the death of Frances?
The initial narrator of Wuthering Heights
Who is Lockwood?
These characters can all be seen as outsiders in the novel.
Who is Lockwood, Catherine, Linton, or Heathcliff?
This is the literary and philosophical movement that dominated the time period in which Bronte lived.
What is the Romantic Age (or Period)?
This is the year Wuthering Heights was first published.
What is 1847?
This is a framed tale
What is a story framed within a broader story?
These characters are alive throughout all of the events of the novel so far (the present and the flashback).
Who is Joseph, Nelly, or Heathcliff?
This is the name for spooky, supernatural sub-genre in which Wuthering Heights can be classified.
What is Gothic fiction?
This is the profession of Bronte's father, Patrick Bronte
What is a minister?
Heathcliff becomes master/owner of Wuthering Heights in this way.
What is gaining the property through gambling with Hindley?
This is an element of the supernatural in the novel.
What is the appearance of Catherine's ghost or Nelly's vision/apparition of Hindley as a child.
This person was the reigning monarch of England during Bronte's life.
Who is Queen Victoria?
This is the significance of the fact that Catherine gives birth to a female child rather than a male child.
What is the fact that a female heir would probably not inherit Thrushcross Grange?
This is an explanation of an epistolary story.
What is a story told through letters?
This describes what Heathcliff does to Isabella's dog.
What is hangs him up from the fence?
*Daily Double*
This "age" was the primary philosophical movement BEFORE Bronte's time.
What is the "Age of Englightenment?"
This is the region of England where Emily Bronte grew up.
What is the moors of Yorkshire, England?
**The Daily Double ** Catherine compares her love for Edgar to this in Ch. 9?
What is "foliage in the wood"?
This is the year in which the novel begins.
What is 1801?
The theme/motif that ties multiple characters like Linton, Frances, and Catherine Earnshaw together.
What is the theme of illness/sickness/death?
This is one major societal, cultural change that occurred in England during the Victorian Age.
What is the Industrial Revolution, the appearance of a middle class, an increase in literacy, the movement from a largely agricultural economy to an industrial one, a movement of people from the country to the city, an increase in pollution, an emphasis on moral conduct and propriety, a time when women's roles were still limited and traditional despite otherwise broad social changes, etc.