We started the lesson by doing a task representing how we (the reader) get information from the novel Wuthering Heights. The 1^st person would tell 2^nd person about their weekend. 2^nd person then told the 3^rd person who wrote about it. Then this note would be passed on to the 4^th person, who would read it and pass on what they remember to the 5^th person. Then that person would summarise it to the 6^th and final person. From this task we learned how unclear the specific set of info is when going through the entire filter.

The type of narrator Lockwood is, is a frame narrator, where the "frame" is where we hear the story, which is in the inside. We hear things about the inside of the story from the somebody at the outside. This could cause only peices of the story being fed to the reader. This makes Lockwood also a fragmented narrator. This links to the gothic genre because it shares the uncertainty and ambiguity that the typical gothic story would have.

We then read the opening of chapter 1 and spoke about Lockwood’s narrative style. We discussed how Lockwood was an unreliable narrator, evident in his misjudgement on certain things e.g. “Mr Heathcliffe and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us”. This is completely wrong, because Heathcliffe actually hates Lockwood. Lockwood also seems like a very big talker and judgemental on everything in the opening chapter. “This is certainly a beautiful country!....I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society”. “A capital fellow”. This contradicts with the change in punctuation when Nelly speaks. Nelly is more basic and straight-forward. This may be due to her simplicity as a maid.

HOMEWORK:

· Complete the questions on the sheet

· Annotate the other sheet