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 Introduction

1992

1970 1998
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 1.The
movie
A two-part British ITV television series
adaptation of the novel Wurthering
Heights by Emily Bronte.
 Starring:
⬗ Tom Hardy as Heathcliff
⬗ Charlotte Riley as Cathy Earnshaw
⬗ Andrew Lincoln as Edgar Linton

Two actors in this film later play in TV series "The Walking

Dead.

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 Production:

⬗ The book had previously proved “stubbornly unadaptable”

⬗ Bowker decided to reassemble the plot of the novel in
chronological order and read it again.
⬗ Drop [the original narrator] Lockwood altogether and
absorb Nelly's [partial narration] into the main drama.

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 Production:

⬗ Shuffled with the original organisation of the flashback

episodes.
⬗ Increase audience interest; as the story begins "two men
hate each other and we don't know why.
⬗ Start with a mystery.

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 “
You said I'd killed you... Haunt
me then... Be with me always...
Take any form, drive me mad
but don't leave me. In this
abyss where I cannot find
you... I cannot live without my
life, I cannot live without my
soul...

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 “
No, I am the one
that is truly cursed.
I was cursed the
moment I laid eyes
on you.

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 “
We cannot
escape each
other. We
cannot.

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 “
Sometimes I
think your true
passion is hate
rather than love.

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 Emily
Bronte
(30/07/1818 – 19/12/1848) - An English
novelist, poet and governess.
 Funfacts about Emily:
A competent artist
Emily received some formal tuition
from John Bradley, but largely
Emily was self-taught.
A good cook
Is the color of gold, butter and ripe
lemons. In the spectrum of visible
light, yellow is found between
green and orange.
Shooting
Emily’s father, the Reverend
Patrick Brontë, taught Emily to use
a pistol.
A second book
The impression given by a letter
from Newby
No evidence of a manuscript for a
second novel has ever been found
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A proficient
musician
Played the family piano “with
precision and brilliancy”.
Patrick took great pride in
developing his daughter’s
skills
“She is a brave and noble girl.
She is my right-hand, nay the
very apple of my eye!”
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 EMILY BRONTE:

⬗ Tom Hardy as Heathcliff

⬗ Charlotte Riley as Cathy Earnshaw
⬗ Andrew Lincoln as Edgar Linton

Two actors in this film later play in TV series "The Walking

Dead.

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Heathcliff 19
 Overview:
⬗ The protagonist
⬗ An example of the conflict nature><society.
⬗ Tall-dark-handsome, athleticism
⬗ Smouldering eyes “full of black fire”
⬗ Appearance faithfully interpreted as
resembling a Gypsy
⬗ A dynamic, major and round character
⬗ A fully-developed, multi-layered

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Heathcliff : Hero or Antihero?

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 Byronic hero :
⬗ Romantic hero with dark characteristics.

⬗ Brooding, ostracized

⬗ Intelligent, arrogant

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 Opinions about Heathcliff :
⬗ He’s surly and sulky. He’s violent, abusive and needy. He
grins, he growls, he sneers.

⬗ He’s brooding, he’s untameable, he’s vengeful.

⬗ His vengeful machinations drive the entire plot.

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 Character Development :
⬗ A silent, solitary orphan adopted by Mr. Earnshaw
⬗ A happy childhood friend, a lover of Catherine.
⬗ A tortured, jealous and desperate man after Mr. Earnshaw
dies.

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 Character Development :
⬗ A silent, solitary orphan adopted by Mr. Earnshaw
⬗ A happy childhood friend, a lover of Catherine.
⬗ A tortured, jealous and desperate man after Mr. Earnshaw
dies.

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 Character Development :
⬗ A vengeful, tyrannical landlord who is consumed by the
desire to revenge on everyone
⬗ Emily’s sister, Charlotte, called Heathcliff’s love
“perverted passion and passionate perversity”
⬗ In the end, he is the favourite lover of female characters,
the ultimate romantic character of all time for many people.

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 A picture is worth a thousand
words

A complex idea can be

conveyed with just a single
still image, namely making
it possible to absorb large
amounts of data quickly.

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 Heathcliff : H

White
Is the color of milk and fresh snow,
the color produced by the
combination of all the colors of the
visible spectrum.
Black
Is the color of coal, ebony, and of
outer space. It is the darkest color,
the result of the absence of or
complete absorption of light.

Catherine Earnshaw
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 Catherine Earnshaw :
⬗ Maintains an impressive and powerful presence
⬗ She grows up as a free spirit with Heathcliff
⬗ Once Edgar enters her life, she grows more torn between
the two
⬗ She chooses Edgar
⬗ Heathcliff’s love remains there alive in her heart.

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 Catherine Earnshaw :
⬗ As a child, she was her father’s most favorite kid.
⬗ She was rebellious and Mr Earnshaw loved it in her.
⬗ Grows self centered and decides to marry Edgar in the hope
of a better life.
⬗ She ends up getting bound in a relationship where she gets
everything but not the kind of love she has wanted in her
life.

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 “
She is an adorable creature but
equally unruly and
adventurous. … she was never so
happy as when we were all
scolding her at once, and she
defying us with her bold, saucy
look, and her ready words; turning
Joseph’s religious curses into
ridicule, baiting me [Ellen]

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 Catherine Earnshaw :
⬗ Defiant, unruly, adventurous and still adorable is how
Nelly Dean defines her.

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Summary
 Summary :
⬗ Exposition:
+ Time: The action of Nelly’s story begins in the 1770s;
Nelly tells the story in 1802.
+ Place: Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange.
+ Characters: Heathcliff, Catherine, Hindley,…
⬗ Rising action: Heathcliff hears Catherine say it would “degrade”
her to marry him

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 Summary :
⬗ Major conflicts :
+ Heathcliff: love – revenge
+ Catherine: love – desire to be a gentlewoman
⬗ Climax: Catherine’s death
⬗ Falling action : Heathcliff takes possession of young
Linton, forces Catherine and Linton to marry, inherits
Thrushcross Grange, then loses interest in the whole project
and dies.
 Summary :

Ending: Hareton and young Catherine are

to be engaged to be married, promising
an end to the cycle of revenge.
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 “
How do you go about adapting
the greatest love story in
literature? Well, firstly by
acknowledging that it isn't a
love story. Or at least, it is many
things as well as a love story.
It's a story about hate, class,
revenge, sibling rivalry, loss,
grief, family, violence, land and
money...

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