https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y en-us 2017-05-29 17:23:03 UTC 2017-06-21 10:58:40 UTC hello@padlet.com shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174280173 Not uncommon in Victorian times for authors to adopt pseudonyms.
Bronte used Ellis Bell and Dickens famously used Boz,]]> 2017-05-29 17:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174280173 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174280521 Top Withens- a ruined farmhouse bears a plaque from the Bronte society and is associated with Wuthering Heights.]]> 2017-05-29 17:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174280521 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174281153 Emily and her siblings lived isolated lives in parsonage at Haworth. ]]> 2017-05-29 17:33:49 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174281153 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174281316 19th century property law- evident from complex plot in novel. 
In 19th century, difference between law of land (property) and goods and money (personal property). Law of land- males preferred than females. Males inherited according to seniority of birth (primogeniture).]]> 2017-05-29 17:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174281316 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174281880 Depiction of domestic violence is in conflict with conventional Victorian notion of the home as the ideal refuge away from the harshness of outside world. ]]> 2017-05-29 17:39:55 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174281880 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174282154 The interpretations of dreams- Freud offers detailed investigation into function of dreams and relationship between dreams and thoughts.]]> 2017-05-29 17:42:29 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174282154 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174282799 Role of illness as a sign for femininity in 19th century.  Bronte writes about illness as a female strategy rather than a weakness. 
Illness becomes Catherine's way to influence the actions of Heathcliff and Edgar. ]]> 2017-05-29 17:48:25 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174282799 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174283132 Pigeon feathers alludes to a superstition of soul of dying person not being able to leave body, if bed or pillows filled with these feathers. ]]> 2017-05-29 17:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174283132 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174283334 Romantic view is illness heightened sense of awareness and promotes a higher state of consciousness. 
Catherine, Isabella and Cathy use it to their advantage.]]> 2017-05-29 17:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174283334 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174283580 Feminists (Gilbert and Gubar) argue, that madness is a result of Catherine's imprisonment, trapped in marriage to Edgar so no longer can make sense of world. ]]> 2017-05-29 17:55:18 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174283580 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174284071 Emily's poem 'Shall Earth No more Inspire Thee' (1841) shows important idea of yearning for death, in which Heaven is as close as possible to Earth. This runs through her poetry and Wuthering Heights. ]]> 2017-05-29 17:59:40 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174284071 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174284508 Matthew Arnold's essays 'Culture and Anarchy' presents a prevailing Victorian notion that culture (moral phenomenon) of ideal human perfection. Wuthering Heights engages with this idea. ]]> 2017-05-29 18:03:29 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174284508 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174284800 Illness not only used as strategy but impedes trajectory of Heathcliff's plot.]]> 2017-05-29 18:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174284800 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174285008 Characterisation of Catherine starts and ends on enigma. World of novel testament to her but it is a testament to her that leaves ghostly signs.]]> 2017-05-29 18:08:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174285008 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174285211 Byronic Hero- romantic poets created idea of Romantic hero who was unruly, melancholy and haunted by secret guilt. ]]> 2017-05-29 18:10:23 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174285211 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174285379 19th century (Key work)- Darwin's origins of species, outlines theory of evolution and survival of the fittest. ]]> 2017-05-29 18:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/xsg572fw635y/wish/174285379