Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
HC on Hindley (Hareton)
revenge
Catherine oppression / abuse
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
...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).
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
discontentment
social
existential
political
powerlessness
of the individual
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 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