WUTHERING HEIGHTS BY EMILY BRONT The Haunting of

WUTHERING HEIGHTS BY EMILY BRONTË The Haunting of Hill House By Shirley Jackson

Wuthering Heights Background • Published in 1847 • Based partly on the Gothic tradition of the late eighteenth century • Style of literature featured: • Supernatural encounters • Crumbling ruins • Moonless nights • Grotesque imagery • Mystery • Fear

The Haunting of Hill House Background • Published in 1959 • Apart of the Penguin Horror series • Collection of novels, stories, and poems curated by Guillermo del Toro • Considered one of the best literary ghost stories published during the twentieth century • Utilizes complex relationships between: • Mysterious events in the house • The characters’ psyches

Main Characters Wuthering Heights The Haunting of Hill House • Mr. Lockwood • Eleanor Vance • Mrs. Ellen Dean • Dr. Montague • Hindley Earnshaw • Mrs. Montague • Catherine Earnshaw • Luke Sanderson • Heathcliff • Theodora • Edgar Linton • Arthur • Isabella Linton

Main Theme • Supernatural manifestations • Ghosts • Wuthering Heights • Mr. Lockwood comes in contact with Catherine’s spirit • Heathcliff is driven mad by Catherine’s spirit every night eventually leading to his death • The Haunting of Hill House • Dr. Montague is a professional analysis of supernatural manifestations • Wants to study a “haunted” house – Hill House • Assembles a crew to go there based on their accounts of abnormal events • Eleanor hears voices in her head • Thinks Hill House is her home and she can’t leave • Mrs. Montague and Arthur use a planchette • Talk to spirits • Says its “Eleanor Nellie Nell”

Themes Along With Semester • Biggest stand out • Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” • Also in the Penguin Horror series • Haunted by the loss of a loved one • Poe Lenore • Heathcliff Catherine • Voices inside one’s head • The narrator thinks there’s something at his chamber door • Eleanor thinks she hears her mother calling her *Adaptations have been made to all three of these literary works*

Work Cited • http: //www. sparknotes. com/lit/wuthering/context. html • http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/The_Haunting_of_Hill_House