Leaving Certificate English lesson takes a look at the novel 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontë.
The poem 'The Prisoner' by Emily Brontë (1818-1848) can be used to explain the style used in her novel ‘Wuthering Heights’. A story of love, obsession, selfishness and revenge, it is also an
Exploration of human nature and its capacities.
This is a novel that draws the reader in and grips their imagination with the dramatic tale of Heathcliff and Cathy. Despite a backdrop of the windswept and unwelcoming house which gives its name to the book,
It seems frightening, but...it’s a world where ecstasy is possible.
Narration is provided by the characters Nelly Dean, a servant, and Mr Lockwood, a tenant, adding plausibility to the story. Their personalities and lives could not be more different than the two protagonists, and in this we experience something of the intensity of Cathy and Heathcliff’s relationship. In the case of Nelly,
What she has to say comes from the mouth of a woman who is stable and reliable.
This episode of ‘Telefís Scoile, Senior English: Wuthering Heights’ was broadcast on 17 May 1973. The presenter is James O’Malley.
'Telefís Scoile' was an educational television programme that gave school lessons in maths, science and literature. It was first broadcast on 4 February 1964 and continued throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
