Literary Qualities
Wuthering Heights has confounded those critics who attempt to place it in any one literary genre. For its depiction of the intensely individualistic personalities of […]
Month: January 2009
Social Sensitivity
The basic plot of Wuthering Heights may seem to be a timeless love story, but the Characters and situations reflect many of the real social […]
Ideas and Topics for Papers
TOPICS FOR DISCUSSION 1. Based on his reactions to his treatment by the inhabitants of Wuthering Heights, what kind of society is Lockwood used to? […]
About the Author
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was born in 1860 in Hartford, Connecticut, to Frederick Beecher Perkins, a noted librarian and magazine editor, and his wife, Mary Fritch […]
Adaptations
Wuthering Heights was adapted to the screen in a 1939 production directed by William Wyler and starring Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, and David Niven. The […]
Setting
“The Yellow Wallpaper” takes place in a country house located about three miles from the nearest village. Although the large house is surrounded by hedges, […]
Themes and Characters
“The Yellow Wallpaper” examines the role of women in 19th-century American society, including the relationship between husbands and wives, the economic and social dependence of […]
Literary Qualities
“The Yellow Wallpaper” is an example of a first-person narrative because it is told exclusively from the viewpoint of the unnamed protagonist, and the reader […]
Social Sensitivity
“The Yellow Wallpaper” was written and published in 1892. The last three decades of the 19th century comprised a period of growth, development, and expansion […]