WEEK 1 SUBJECT - LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
CLASS – SS2
TOPIC– introduction to the Wuthering Height, author’s background setting on plot
SpecificObjective- By the end of the lesson the students should be able to:
Background of the author
The author, Emily Jane Blonte, was bornin 1818 in England. She was the daughter of the Curate of Haworth in West Yorkshire. Emily was the third eldest child of her father. She was an English novelist and poet who was best known for her English novel, "Wuthering Heights". At the age of seventeen, Emily began her education at Roe Head Girls' school but later left the school due to horrfesickness. Her sudden development of sickness resulting from tuberculosis cost her life in 1848.
SETTING OF THE POSE WUTHERING HEIGHT
The novel "Wuthering Heights" was set in the Yorkshire Moors in New England. The time frame was in the late 18th century. The novelist makes use of the gothic landscape and setting to paint the environmental pictures of the wild farm house called Wuthering Heights and the decent and habitable mansion known as Thrushcross Grange. The setting of the novel brings to light certain characters who are influenced by the sad and depressing Wuthering Heights. The occupants are only happy when they move out of the Heights and relax in the Moor which sqemsto be lively and colourful.
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