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    Hinda Hindou
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    This document provides an analysis of the novel Wuthering Heights, discussing its exploration of romantic and social concerns as well as class conflict. It examines the transition between the Earnshaw and Linton families and worlds, representing a movement from the elemental passions of nature to the refinement of culture. It also analyzes the development of the protagonist Lockwood and Catherine's transition between families. Additionally, it summarizes Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party, touching on themes of human disconnection, meaninglessness, the failure of language, resistance and conformity, and the brutal realities of power in everyday life.

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    This document provides an analysis of the novel Wuthering Heights, discussing its exploration of romantic and social concerns as well as class conflict. It examines the transition between the Earnshaw and Linton families and worlds, representing a movement from the elemental passions of nature to the refinement of culture. It also analyzes the development of the protagonist Lockwood and Catherine's transition between families. Additionally, it summarizes Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party, touching on themes of human disconnection, meaninglessness, the failure of language, resistance and conformity, and the brutal realities of power in everyday life.

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    Revenge: Class Conflict

    Încărcat de

    Hinda Hindou
    This document provides an analysis of the novel Wuthering Heights, discussing its exploration of romantic and social concerns as well as class conflict. It examines the transition between the Earnshaw and Linton families and worlds, representing a movement from the elemental passions of nature to the refinement of culture. It also analyzes the development of the protagonist Lockwood and Catherine's transition between families. Additionally, it summarizes Harold Pinter's play The Birthday Party, touching on themes of human disconnection, meaninglessness, the failure of language, resistance and conformity, and the brutal realities of power in everyday life.

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    Wuthering Heights

    HC on Hindley (Hareton)

    revenge
    Catherine oppression / abuse

    HC on Edgar (Isabella, Cathy, Linton)

    ROMANTIC CONCERNS
    HC-Earnshaws supernatural gothic transcendence

    SOCIAL CONCERNS
    HC-Lintons Victorian-realist domestic entrapment marriage

    CLASS CONFLICT
    opposition
    catastrophe in V1
    TRANSITION BETWEEN WORLDS

    innocence

    childhood

    elemental lovers

    storm tumultuous weather barren moors moral and social degradation all-consuming passion love = hatred?

    nature

    destabilising force

    society
    calm

    resolution in V2

    integration

    restores balance

    culture
    books

    gentry

    material wealth

    refinement

    DEVELOPMENT bildungsroman

    superficial, mild love

    ...is at once the source of joy and harmony; rejected, it becomes the fountainhead of enmity and strife.

    LOVE

    A city-dweller in search of the countryside and his flawed development Lockwood starts with his silly romanticisation of nature (1), then comes to realisation of the rural-urban divide (54-55), yet returns to prejudices and romantic fantasy (269-70), but more reflective, judicious upon return to TCG (271-5).

    Catherines transition from Earnshaw to Linton can be understood as... (i) A betrayal of mystical love for social position and romantic love, (ii) an act of self-betrayal and bad faith; (iii) a naive and ultimately doomed attempt to bridge the two conflicting worlds and the two contrasting loves (HC and EL).

    The Birthday Party

    What is comic soon becomes horrific... to allow an audience to confront and deal with these harsh truths of modern life

    human disconnection

    alienation

    meaninglessness
    nihilism & disillusionment

    and rejection of prevailing authority

    discontentment

    social

    existential

    political

    failure of language underlying tension deceit

    self-delusion construction of identity

    resistance and its futility totalitarianism and conformity

    powerlessness

    of the individual

    brutal social realities

    power
    in the everyday
    domination & submission familial dysfunction

    power
    of the individual
    conformity vs individuality self-exile

    power
    and its effects
    fear, oppression & violence hypocrisy from oppressed to oppressor

    political

    MODERN CONDITION
    ...or at least Harold Pinters bleak world view (of the human situation - of society, of existence, of external forces)

    THE HARSH & HORRIFIC

    The deepest problems of modern life derive from the claim of the individual to preserve the autonomy and individuality of his existence in the face of overwhelming social forces, of.. historical bonds in the state, in religion, in morals, in economics.
    Georg Simmel

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