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SUBJECT: English Literature

L1 WS8

 Spend 20 minutes highlighting the key words of the question and the words and
phrases in the extract that you might write about in your answer.
 Then annotate the extract, making concise comments about the effects of the
words and phrases you highlighted. Next write a brief paragraph plan.
 Mark the different sections of the extract– and consider how the writer uses
structure to communicate their ideas. Are there any obvious turning-points?
 Make concise note about the writer’s use of description, narration and direct
speech – and how these elements contribute to the impact of the whole extract.
 Spend 50 minutes writing your answer. Begin with a brief introduction to the
essay that provides an overview of the extract at the same time as addressing
the question.
 Spend 5 minutes checking your answer.

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Read the given extract from ‘Wuthering Heights’ and attempt the
question that follows

1801.—
I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be
troubled with. 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. A capital fellow! He little imagined how my heart warmed
towards him when I beheld his black eyes withdraw so suspiciously under their brows,
as I rode up, and when his fingers sheltered themselves, with a jealous resolution, still
further in his waistcoat, as I announced my name.
‘Mr. Heathcliff?’ I said.
A nod was the answer.
‘Mr. Lockwood, your new tenant, sir. I do myself the honour of calling as soon as
possible after my arrival, to express the hope that I have not inconvenienced you by my
perseverance in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange: I heard yesterday you
had had some thoughts—’
‘Thrushcross Grange is my own, sir,’ he interrupted, wincing. ‘I should not allow any
one to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it—walk in!’
The ‘walk in’ was uttered with closed teeth, and expressed the sentiment, ‘Go to the
Deuce’: even the gate over which he leant manifested no sympathising movement to
the words; and I think that circumstance determined me to accept the invitation: I felt
interested in a man who seemed more exaggeratedly reserved than myself.
When he saw my horse’s breast fairly pushing the barrier, he did put out his hand to
unchain it, and then sullenly preceded me up the causeway, calling, as we entered the
court ‘Joseph, take Mr. Lockwood’s horse; and bring up some wine.’
‘Here we have the whole establishment of domestics, I suppose,’ was the reflection
suggested by this compound order. ‘No wonder the grass grows up between the flags,
and cattle are the only hedge-cutters.’

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Joseph was an elderly, nay, an old man: very old, perhaps, though hale and sinewy.
‘The Lord help us!’ he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while
relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably
conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious
ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.
Wuthering Heights is the name of Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling. ‘Wuthering’ being a
significant provincial adjective, descriptive of the atmospheric tumult to which its station
is exposed in stormy weather. Pure, bracing ventilation they must have up there at all
times, indeed: one may guess the power of the north wind blowing over the edge, by the
excessive slant of a few stunted firs at the end of the house; and by a range of gaunt
thorns all stretching their limbs one way, as if craving alms of the sun. Happily, the
architect had foresight to build it strong: the narrow windows are deeply set in the wall,
and the corners defended with large jutting stones.
Before passing the threshold, I paused to admire a quantity of grotesque carving
lavished over the front, and especially about the principal door; above which, among a
wilderness of crumbling griffins and shameless little boys, I detected the date ‘1500’,
and the name ‘Hareton Earnshaw’. I would have made a few comments, and requested
a short history of the place from the surly owner; but his attitude at the door appeared to
demand my speedy entrance, or complete departure, and I had no desire to aggravate
his impatience previous to inspecting the penetralium.

Q. How does Bronte vividly capture the narrator’s thoughts about what he sees on his
first visit to Wuthering Heights in the opening of this novel.
 Unpicking the question set for assignment :
 ‘How does Bronte …’ - the way in which Bronte uses language, structure and
form
 ‘vividly capture’ – focus on Bronte’s vivid writing
 ‘the narrator’s thoughts’ – her use of Lockwood as narrator
 ‘what he sees on his first visit’ – his impressions of Heathcliff, Joseph, Wuthering
Heights and its location
 ‘opening to the novel’ – the extract introduces us to the characters and
setting, preparing us for the subsequent parts of the novel

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