wuthering heights
Originally belonging to the Linton family, this is the “other” house featured in the novel.
What is Thrushcross Grange?
Much of the action in the novella revolves around a search for this man, a particularly adept ivory procurer.
Who is Kurtz?
This 19th-century literary movement is characterized by the use of ominous settings, supernatural elements, and threatening circumstances.
What is Gothic literature?
Eliza Doolittle does this for a living before she asks Higgins for language lessons.
What is sell flowers?
This person wrote NW.
Who is Zadie Smith?
Nelly, a longtime employee, provides much of the narrative background within the novel to this new tenant who has rented a house near Wuthering Heights.
Who is Lockwood?
Joseph Conrad, the author of Heart of Darkness, is a celebrated British writer, but he was born in this country.
What is Poland?
This literary genre/tool is used to critique a common social situation by using a biting humor. George Bernard Shaw used it often to criticize the British aristocracy.
What is satire?
At the end of the play, Higgins suggests that Eliza could get married to this man in order to secure her position in society.
Who is Pickering?
This author that we read was born and lived in the Yorkshire Moors, which is also the setting of their most famous literary work
Who is Emily Brontë?
The description of Heathcliff as "swarthy" most likely indicates that he is from this ethnic group of people.
Who are the Romanis/Gypsies?
The novella begins here, where a storyteller then transports reader to Africa.
What is London/the Thames River?
Both Heart of Darkness and Wuthering Heights use this narrative device that uses a peripheral character as the narrator and a major character as the conveyer of the story itself.
What is a frame or frame story?
George Bernard Shaw, the author of Pygmallion, was a controversial figure for many reasons, including for his political affiliations with this movement.
What is Marxisism/socialism?
Britain participated in this colonial project, an effort by European nations to take advantage of natural resources found in Africa.
What is the Scramble for Africa?
Wuthering Heights was published during this era of British history.
What is the Victorian period?
Heart of Darkness is a critique of this movement, which saw countries seeking economic and cultural dominance outside of their own borders.
What is imperialism?
Exploring the impossibility of metaphysical truths is a main concern within this litertary movement?
What is modernism?
Arthur Doolittle becomes well off by the end of the play because he has been recruited as a sought after speaker due to his "groundbreaking" (according to Higgins) view on this.
What is middle-class morality?
The titular “NW” of the novel refers to this.
What is the postcode for Northwest London, where the novel takes place?
Catherine dies of complications from childbirth and this condition that could be caused partially by grief and/or madness.
What is brain fever?
These are the last words spoken by Kurz before he dies.
What is "the horror, the horror"?
Heart of Darkness can be characterized as this kind of literature, an arm of modernism that thrived in the early 20th century and focused on the inner life of a singular character rather than plot and action.
What is impressionist literature?
Pygmallion is an example of modernist drama that emphasizes realistic situations and acting styles, a sharp contrast to Victorian drama that used acting and writing styles characterized by this.
What is melodrama?
Wuthering Heights was originally published under this pseudonym.
What is Ellis Bell?