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Thursday, 13 October 2011

Heathcliff

Sorry for the late blog everyone,

Now in this lesson we looked at Heathcliff, his character and how he is described. For the start sir asked us to write three things we know about Heathcliff. Although most of us knew much about him, yet we knew little, he seemed like a mystery to us. Sir then gave us a sheet with descriptions of HEathcliff from the book and asked us to put them in order of least respectful to the most. We all had them in similar orders, "papa" and "my Heathcliff" being at the top and "imp of satan" and "dark devil gypsy" at the bottom. We then discussed what the words mean and what they represent.

We then, began to write an essay about Heathcliff. In the essay we focused on AO2 and how they create effect, we also DRIPPED in a bit of AO4 not CHUNKS. But most importantly, we focused on the narrative structure and how it is linked to Heathcliff.

Homework:
Finish the model answer essay so it flows well. Continue your reading of Wuthering Heights

Thats all
Aisha
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3 comments:

  1. Aleksandra13 October 2011 at 13:53

    I think that being called "it" is probably one of the worst things said about Heathcliff, it's really degrading and adds to the character's already established ambiguity.

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  2. Chris Will13 October 2011 at 15:35

    From the layout of the different quotes we did,it seemed to show that Heathcliff had gained respect as the novel progressed. As for the fragmented narrative structure, it clearly makes it difficult to make judgements about Heathcliff because we barely get to see anything from his point of view; we only really learn about Heathcliff through the eyes of others.

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  3. London Academy Students14 October 2011 at 04:05

    I think that we dont really know Heathcliff as a person because the other characters stereotype him he dosent really have a voice in the novel. He is the Uncanny as hes a mysterious characters that we are not familiar with. in the lesson hes described as more evil than good.

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