i got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might-it scraped the coffin; i fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws, i was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that i heard a sigh form someone above, close at the edgeof the grave, and bending down. (page 364, Harper Teen)
How much does this exercise help you in your test?I really hope that in some way it helped you to prepare for your test. I hate it if it was just a waste of time.
Do me a fovor please... put in also some sort of explaination that identifies the speech as one that captures essence of gothicism.
"Ah, Nelly has played traitor,"she exclaimed, passionately. "Nelly is my hidden enemy.You witch! So you do seek elf-bolts to hurt us! Let me go, and I'll make her rue! I'll make her howl a recantation!"
Madam Ju, Your activity in class such as this one help us understand more and in some sort we can predict the question that you going ask in the test :D
i identify my line based on a monologue that contains the essence of vengeance in 5 minutes because vengeance is part of Gothic element :D
Chapter 2 'Then I hope his ghost will haunt you; and I hope Mr. Heathcliff will never get another tenant till the Grange is a ruin!"
"Hearken, hearken, shoo'scursing on 'em!
This in class activity really helps us to understand this novel from the beginning and by doing this activity we can now focus more on the gothic element which is in fact the main idea in this novel...thumbs up!!!
THe speech above can be identified as gothic because it has the key word ghost where it is the evidence of gothic elements.
chapter 2 Catherine: "I shall bid father good night first,"
"oh Heathcliff, he's dead!
Father is dead, Heathcliff."
I find out that those lines contain Gothic element which is death. The death of her father has actually brought the feelings of sorrow and frustration as well as sadness.
Apart from that, I think this activity has given us opportunity to understand this story better especially of the theme Gothicism.
'I'll tell you what I did yesterday! I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there: when I saw her face again - it is hers yet! - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change if the air blew on it, and so I struck one side of the coffin loose, and covered it up: not Linton's side, damn him!
~Personally the idea of wearing gothic dress in class brought some eerie emotion to me. wow! the class was occupied by black spirit!!The monologues presented by my classmates helped me a lot to find gothic element in the novel. I felt uncomfortable mingled with my friends that day but it succeeded to make me engulfed with Wuthering height mood! good idea after all!!
Chapter 11 Publisher : Wordsworth Classics Monologue: page 84 “ I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy!” said her friend. “I compliment you on your taste. And that is the slavering, shivering thing you preferred to me! I would not strike him with my fist, but I’d kick him with my foot, and experience considerable satisfaction. Is he weeping, or is he going to faint for hear?” - The gothic elements can be seen through these lines. Here Heathcliff showed his anger and vengeful, which is an element of Gothicism, towards Edgar Linton. In my opinion, the gothic day was a great experience for us. We presented the monologue at Kompleks Akademik in front passer by without any shy or fear. Thanx for Madam Ju for the awesome day…
"You're a damned liar," began Earnshaw:"why i made him angry, by taking your part then, a hundred times? and that, when you sneered at, and despised me, and- Go on plaguing me, and I'll step in yonder, and say you worried me out of the kitchen!"
'Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!' and maintained its tenacious grip, almost maddening me with fear.'
These lines said by Lockwood.
Activities that have been carried out in classroom definitely helped us in our test especially in understanding the novel. As the novel need critical analysis and one needs to look at bigger picture for give better judgment, therefore I personally feel activities in classroom helped us and me precisely in our previous test. Besides that the activity such as monologue is an eye opener for us because we have to overcome our fear and face the uncommon audience that we usually had (our own classmates). I found we are in undeniable comfort zone while having an activity confined in classroom. So monologue activity in Kompleks Akademik indicated our confidence level when we were standing all alone in public.
Ghost is one of the gothics elements and above lines show Lockwood is in fear after his unexpected encounter with a ghost.
All in all I do enjoy all activities for the reason we need extraordinary challenge to go beyond our limit.
“I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!”
-(page 42, Chapter 7) Wordsworth Classic-
The short lines expressed Heathcliff’s genuine hatred towards Hindley, thus showing us how far Heathcliff was willing to take his revenge toward the other guy. The violent way of thinking in the line can be considered as Gothic.
The activity in the class helps in a sense that it brought up the dark and gloomy feelings from the book into the real world. The early rain that day also helps to boost up the gothic element. In a way, it helps me to understand Gothic atmosphere better.
KUMUTHAMALLAR VISWANATHAN 150177 'Stop, Miss Catherine, dear!'I interrupted. 'I shall not scold, but I don't like your conduct there. If you had remembered that Hareton was you cousin as much as Master Heathcliff, you would have felt how improper it was to behave in that way.
Chapter 24, page 181, 2nd last paragraph - Wordsworth Classics
In this part, Nelly was angry toward Young Catherine for being rudely to Hareton. It involves total expression of anger and that is the Gothicism of this particular excerpt. Ii helps to provoke anger within myself to express the dialogue according to its mood.
"He's not a human being,"she retorted;"and he has no claim on my charity.I gave him my heart,and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.People feel with their hearts,Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine,I have not power to feel for him: and I would not,though he groaned from this to his dying day, and wept tears of blood for Catherine!
-The lines indicates how Isabella feels so frustrated with Heathcliff's action towards her.Heathcliff breaks her heart and Isabella has no more heart feelings to him.This example can show how violence Heathcliff is when he breaks Isabella's heart and can be considered as Gothic.
-The activity that Madam Ju had conducted last time was good in term of getting us to bring ourselves into Gothic environment and how we dressed all black during that day.For me,students will learn and remember more if this activity can be practiced during the lesson.
“Oh!” said he, releasing me, “I see that hideous little villain is not Hareton: I beg you pardon, Nell. If it be, he deserves flaying alive for not running to welcome me, and for screaming as if I were a goblin. Unnatural cub, come hither! I’ll teach thee to impose on a good-hearted, deluded father. Now, don’t you think the lad would be handsomer cropped? It makes a dog fiercer, and I love something fierce-get me a scissors-something fierce and trim! Besides, it’s infernal affectation-devilish conceit it is, to cherish our ears-we’re asses enough without them. Hush, child, hush! Well then, it is my darling! wisht, dry thy eyes-there’s joy; kiss me. What! it won’t? Kiss me, Hareton! Damn thee, kis me! By God, as if I would rear such a moster! As sure as I’m living, I’ll break the brat’s neck.”
Elements of Gothicism can be seen when Hindley was behaving harshly towards his son, Hareton, who is just a toddler. He even dangling his son and accidentally drops Hareton from top of the stairs but Heathcliff was there to save Hareton. This activity has helped me to understand the feelings instilled in the poem. I even get to see the emotion behind the lines which has helped me to gain more understanding of the novel and it is really a fun activity to be carried out.
"May she wake in torment! Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - not in heaven - not perished - where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer - I repeat it till my tongue stiffens - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe - I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"
Clearly, the lines above belong to Heathcliff. It was only at the news of Catherine’s death did he lament all the anger, love and regret within him. Such a display of intense emotion, especially that of anger and pain of one’s death depicts not only brokenness but as well as darkness – all of which are gothic elements. However, what truly brought out the essence of Gothicism in these lines is Heathcliff’s belief in the supernatural – ghosts and souls that he had claimed to know wanders the earth. As Gothicism aims to project a thrill of fearfulness in their work, these lines evidently compel readers to feed upon such a threatening feeling.
When I chose these lines for my gothic monologue, I never realized how tough it would be to get into Heathcliff’s character at this particular scene. His emotions were so extreme that I had goosebumps presenting them! Nonetheless, the experience was priceless; the impact, needless to say was reflected in our test. Having made these lines our own, it was easier to quote them as evidence. All in all, it felt really great to have challenged myself to such a monologue. If given a choice, I’d say we do it again! All credits go to Mdm Juridah for the opportunity! :D
CHAPTER 9 PAGE 76 PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS PUBLICATIONS
“Nay, don’t,” I entreated. “Mr. Hindley, do take warning. Have mercy on this unfortunate boy, if you care nothing for yourself!” “Anyone will do better care for him than I shall,” he answered. “Have mercy on your own soul!” I said, endeavouring to snatch the glass from his hand. “Not I! On the contrary, I shall have great pleasure in sending it to perdition to punish its Maker!” exclaimed the blasphemer. “Here’s to its hearty damnation!” He drank the spirits and impatiently bade us go; terminating his command with a sequel of horrid imprecations, too bad to repeat or remember. “It’s a pity he cannot kill himself with drink,” observed Heathcliff muttering an echo of curses back when the door was shut.
Revenge which takes place in these lines shows Gothicism. Hindley ignores his own son and committed in taking revenge. This activity helps me to get to know more on the elements of Gothicism in Wuthering Heights. Wearing dark clothes (everybody) made me really got into the character.
Heathcliff, stretching out a hand and dragging him roughly between his knees, and then holding up his head by the chin. ‘None of that nonsense! We’re not going to hurt thee, Linton - isn’t that thy name? Thou art thy mother’s child, entirely! Where is my share in thee, puling chicken?’
This line has gothic element in it because the treatment of Heathcliff towards his own child is too cruel or harsh. Cruelty is one of the elements of gothicism and i think that this search for gothic lines do really help a lot in the test that day. Thanks Mdm Ju. Besides that, the recitation of the line is a preparation for the monologue in theater too.
"No! What a shame of your mother, never to waken your filial regard for me! You are my son, then, I'll tell you;and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed."
The activity of ghoticism that we have done in the class really helps me to understand the sole element of ghotic that Emily Bronte portrays in the novel. Not only that, it helps me to identify the act of violence done by the characters. Furthermore, I am able to feel how it is like to be Heathcliff who is doomed by tragic love.
" 'Get to thy own room! he said, in a voice almost inarticulate with passion and his face looked swelled and furious. 'Take her there if she comes to see thee; thou shalln't keep me out of this. Begone wi' ye both!'
This line shows the gothic element by the stretching of voice that we can see above. the shouting of voice indicate the violence shown by the character. This element really helps me get into the novel and because of that i gain my interest in reading it.
“I had Cathy by the hand, and was urging her on, when all at once she fell down. ‘Run, Heathcliff, run!’ she whispered. ‘They have let bull-dog loose, and he holds me!’ The devil seized her ankle, Nelly: I heard his abominable snorting. She did not yell out – no!”
I find out these lines do have gothic elements as the action of violence has shown by Lintons’ bull-dog when it seizes Catherine’s ankle and makes her unable to run away from it, plus Catherine does not yell at all while she is caught up by it.
Besides, the monologue activity that had been conducted by Madam Juridah last week was really interesting because she was the one who brought us into the “Gothic world” and made everybody wearing all black clothes in her class. For this activity, I think it is good for students as they will practice and remember on what they have learnt during the lesson.
'but his life is not worth a farthing, and I won't spend a farthing on him' This is uttered by Heathcliff to Catherine when she reported the dying condition of her husband, Edgar Linton. It shows that Linton's life has no meaning or worthless for Heathcliff, and Heathcliff does not mind if anything happen to Linton. At that time, Heathcliff did not think about others anymore, no matter what happen.
Wordsworth Classics Chapter 28, Page 204, Line 10 - 19
LEE SUE YEN (150151)
'I winked,' he answered. 'I wink to see my father strike a dog, or a horse, he does it so hard. Yet I was glad at first - she deserved punishing for pushing me: but when papa was gone, she made me come to the window and showed me her cheek cut on the inside, against her teeth, and her mouth filling with blood; and then she gathered up the bits of the picture, and went and sat down with her face to the wall, and she has never spoken to me since: and I sometimes think she can't speak for pain. I don't like to think so! but she's a naughty thing for crying continually; and she looks so pale and wild, I'm afraid of her!"
This extract which I've selected from "Wuthering Heights" brings out the element of Gothicism. It gives us a glimpse into a large part of Linton's characteristic, so cowardly, so inhumanly cruel at times and so lacking of reasonable judgement.
The elements of Gothicism presents itself through Linton's violent depiction of his inner thoughts and feelings towards his father's treatment of Young Catherine. The mention of the gory details - "mouth filled with blood" , "can't speak for pain" , "crying continually" , "pale and wild" - and Linton taking pleasure for that which happened - "I was glad..." , "she deserved punishing for pushing me..." all paint to us a picture of vengeful delight.
One such emotion was difficult for me to portray - as it requires a whole lot of delving into the innermost character of Linton (understanding his lack of maturity, his frailty, and his upbringing from such a hostile environment). Definitely something I found very hard to relate to.
However, I'm thankful for an activity such as this one - Madam Ju having us all donned in Gothic-looking apparel and having each of us select a particular Gothic fragment from the novel to be rehearsed. Truly, this activity spurred us on to discover for ourselves what Gothicism entails - in this world, as well as how it ties in with the novel that we're studying.
Besides that, the activity, I believe, helped me (and those who prior to this activity, may not have an inkling as to what this novel is all about) to sit up in their seats and begin researching, and getting interested in discovering the novel (or at least, their own parts) of the novel. It's definitely a good idea to get us outwardly participating and tailor our style to the mood of "Wuthering Heights". I think this has sparked the interest of many (especially myself) to further discover this novel for my own benefit. And hey, when the first test drew near, it wasn't such a feat to get started on this novel. In fact, by then, I was already beginning to enjoy and appreciate the study of "Wuthering Heights"! All thanks to the creative activity : Gothic - Speech & Fashion. :D
"I should laugh and dance for joy, if I found their absence was the total of my miseries, and the rest was an unnatural dream!"
This line has gothic element in it because of the anger that is being stressed here. Gothic has to do with things such as supernatural, violence, dark and anger, so this line is definitely has the same attributes.
Title :Wuthering Heights Author : Emily Bronte Publisher: Penguin Popular Classics Chapter : 32 Page : 256
'i'd rayther by th' haulf,hev 'em swearin' i' my lugs fro'h morn to neeght, nor heaken ye,hahsiver!' 'It's a blazing shame, that I cannot oppen t' blessed Bok, but yah set up glories to Sattan , and all t' flaysome wickednesses that iver were born into th' warld! Oh! ye'er a raight nowt; and shoo's another; and that poor lad'll be lost atween ye,Poor lad!' 'he's witched: I'm sartin on't! O Lord, judge 'em, for ther's norther law nor justice among wer rullers!'
I find these line to be Gothic as it shows alot of emotion of the character.As Gothic id being violent and cold,the monologue activity has made me understand the Gothicism that was displayed in the emotion during the recital of the dialogue
"if Harton does not turn you out of the room, I'll strike him to hell," thundered Heathcliff. " Damnable witch! dare you pretend to rouse him against me? Off with her! Do you hear? Fling her into the kitchen! I'll kill her, Ellen Dean, if you let her come into my sight again!"
The rising of the voice projection really interesting! One of the element of Gothic I think? But, from the lines above, we can see that Heathcliff is cruel person,one of the evidence of his cruel characteristic. This get me to know the Heathcliff characteristic better.
"If you don't let me in I'll kill you! If you don't let me in I'll kill you!" he rather shrieked than said. "Devil! devil! I'll kill you, I'll kill you!"
This line is uttered by Linton, Heathcliff's son. This utterances shows his furious and his reaction to kill describes violence. Therefore, these lines represent gothicism as both furious and violence are some of the gothic elements in the novel besides ghosts, dream, and darkness.
Fahmi bin Fahrruzi 150171 Chapter 18, page 246 HarperTeen Publisher
"I'll see the damned before I be thy servant!: growled the lad. "You'll see me what?" asked Catherine in surprise. "Damned - thou saucy witch!" he replied.
MOHD FIKRI FAHAMI BIN KAMARUDIN 150181 Chapter 3, Page 27, Line 17-33 Arcturus Publisher
As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window. Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!' and maintained its tenacious gripe, almost maddening me with fear. 'How can I!' I said at length. 'Let ME go, if you want me to let you in!' The fingers relaxed, I snatched mine through the hole, hurriedly piled the books up in a pyramid against it, and stopped my ears to exclude the lamentable prayer. I seemed to keep them closed above a quarter of an hour; yet, the instant I listened again, there was the doleful cry moaning on! 'Begone!' I shouted. 'I'll never let you in, not if you beg for twenty years.' 'It is twenty years,' mourned the voice: 'twenty years. I've been a waif for twenty years!"
These lines describe Mr.Lockwood dreams about Catherine. His dreams is a nightmare because he sees the ghost of Catherine asks him to let her in as she has been wandering around for twenty years. Ghost is one of the elements of gothicism in the novel.
Wuthering Heights Wordsworth Classics Chapter 7, Page 40, 7th paragraph (Last Paragraph in the page)
“He shall have his share of my hand, if I catch him downstairs again till dark,” cried Hindley. “Begone, you vagabond! What! You are attempting the coxcomb, are you? Wait till I get hold of those elegant locks –see if I won’t pull them a bit longer!”
This line indicates the incident that when Heathcliff, now "clean and cheerful," tried to join the party, Hindley told him to go away because he was not fit to be there.
Hindley is the son of Mr. Earnshaw and heir to the Earnshaw’s inheritance. Hindley is also Catherine's elder brother. Hindley abuses Heathcliff and seeks to degrade Heathcliff for winning the love of Mr. Earnshaw. He hates Heathcliff from the start because of his father's preference for him and that is why Hindley treats him badly. Because he is jealous of his father's attentions to Heathcliff, after his father's death he makes Heathcliff into a servant. He later ends up mortgaging his property due to his gambling and drinking debts, and Heathcliff becomes master of Wuthering Heights.
He is a bullying, discontented boy who grows up to be a violent alcoholic when his beloved wife, Frances, dies. He hates Heathcliff because he felt supplanted in his father's affections by the other boy, and Heathcliff hates him even more in return.
Hindley portrays the hatred, violence and anger in the novel. These are the elements of the essence of Gothicism.
From the activity, I am able to identify the gothic element in the novel. This makes me getting clearer picture in identify the essence of gothicism in this story. This is also helps a lot in the test later on because i could understand what essence of giothicism can be interprate and how does it being develop in the novel of Wuthering Heights.
Besides that, i would like to thanks to Madam Juridah who thinks out such way to help us in being able to enhance the learning process by this interesting activity.
AHMAD ZAKWAN B JOHAN 150169 Chapter 3 Page 33 Line 22-25
"T' maister nobbut just burried, and Sabbath no o'ered, und t'sound o' t' gospel still i' yer lugs, and ye darr be laiking! Shame on ye! sit ye down, ill childer! there's book good enough if ye'll read 'em sit ye down, and think o' yer sowls!"
"'The master just recently buried, and the Sabbath not over, and the sound of the gospel still in your ears, and you dare be larking about [having fun]! Shame on you! sit down, bad children! there are good books enough if you'll read them: sit down, and think of your souls!"
Emily's transliterations of Joseph's broad Yorkshire accent are not easy to understand, even for English people. On this page, I take some of his speeches and try and translate them into modern speech.
This lines were taken when Lockwoods reads an entry in a room that leads by Zillah. The entry from a time just after her father died, in which her older brother Hindley makes Catherine and Heathcliff listen to Joseph’s dull sermons. From the entry it’s clear that Hindley hated Heathcliff, but that Catherine and Heathcliff were close.
'i have no pity! i have no pity! the more the worms writhe, the more i yearn to crash out their entrails! it is a moral teething and i grind with greater energy, in the proportion to the increase of pain'
the line above was uttered by Heathcliff toward young Catherine. he treated Catherine with utmost despisal to take revenge over what the late Catherine had done to him. therefore, he controlled the life of young Catherine opressively without any pity. this portrays the essence of gothicism as Heathcliff treats the young Catherine with violence.
i think the activity that was carried out is effective since it enables me to feel how the ambience of gothic is. i find that gothic seemingly full of evil spirit; violence, gloominess, darkness, etc. it helps me to imagine the story in actual situation where the elements of gothic are concerned.
I want you to be aware that I know you have treated me infernally-infernally! Do you hear? And if you flatter yourself that I don,t perceive it, you are a fool; and if you think I can be consoled by sweet words, you are an idiot; and if you fancy I'll suffer unrevenged, I'll convince you of the contrary, in a very little while!
Wan Mohd Fadhli Bin Wan Saipuddin 150147 Chapter 1, page 12, line 26-28 Arcturus Publisher My Character is: Mr. Lockwood
'What the devil, indeed!' i muttered.’ The herd of possessed swine could have no worse spirits in them than those animals of yours, sir. You might as well leave a stranger with a brood of tigers!'
This is the line when Fahmi and i recite together to show the elements of Gothic which is anger and brutality.
"The stanchions stood too close to suffer his his shoulder to follow, and i smiled, exulting in my fancied security. His hair and clothes were whitened with snow, and his sharp cannibal teeth, revealed by cold and wrath, gleamed through the dark"
this line was said by Isabella to Hindley. This line is to show the dark side of Hindley when he came to meet Isabella.
through this activity, i understand that Gothic plays an important role in Wuthering Heights novel. this is because through out the novel, we can see that the writer use the element of gothic to make the reader understand the atmosphere and the emotion of the characters in the novel.
‘I’ve tied his tongue,’ observed Hearthcliff. ‘He will not venture a single syllable, all the time! Nelly, you recollect me at his age-nay, some years younger. Did I ever look so stupid: so “gaumless”, as Joseph calls it?’
‘I’ve a pleasure in him,’ he continued reflecting aloud. ‘He has satisfied my expectations. If he were born fool I should not enjoy it half so much.
This two paragraph suggest that Hearthcliff is seeking revenge on Hindley by degrading Hindley's son like what Hindley did on Hearthcliff. He sees pleasure surging in when Hareton never go against him instead respect Hearthcliff. Hatred and revenge are part of the Gothic elements.
'You and Edgar have broken my heart, Heathcliff! And you both come to bewail the deed to me, as if you were the people to be pitied! I shall not pity you, not I. you have killed me--and thriven on it, I think. How strong you are! How many years do you mean to live after I am gone?'
These lines have essences of Gothicism because of the way Heathcliff and Edgar have broken Christine's heart. Although the violence does not happen physically, Christine has been violated mentally and emotionally. Whatever kind of violence it is, violence is still one of the elements of Gothicism.
The exercise of fashion and speech in class really help me to understand the Gothicism element in this novel. Before the exercise, I only know the word gothic but never really explore the gothic’s world. I think the idea of wearing black was really great. Besides, most of us who never know what is gothic and the elements learnt from the exercise. Reading the monologue in front of my classmate helps me gain my confident. Although I am a little bit nervous in the beginning, I made it. The exercise also helps me to understand the gothic elements. Because of that, I can answer the exam question very well.
In conclusion, I really enjoy our gothic exercise and I hope we will have another gothic day in future.
I gave him a cut with my whip, thinking perhaps he would murder me. He let go, thundering one of his horrid curses, and I galloped home more than half out of my senses.
Violence, is one of the essence of gothicism that can be found in this novel. Through this activity it help me in identifying the other essence of gothicism presented in a form of monologue. The idea behind this activity is great, exchanging ideas and thoughts with friends that will be very usefull when answering the exam question.
Wan Mohd Najat Bin Wan Nawang 150148 Penguin classics Chapter 17 Page 177
“there’s this to do! That your master’s mad; and should he last another month, I’ll have him to an asylum. And how the devil did you come to fasten me out, you toothless hound? Don’t stand muttering and mumbling there. Come, i’m not going to nurse him. Wash that stuff away; and mind the sparks of your candle – it is more than half brandy!”
This is a rare activity during a literature class. I never been in such a class before. From my opinion, this is an activity which could give the confidence to the students. I, myself could understand the meaning of gothic better than before since the idea of gothic i know before is a little bit different from the meaning i learnt during this class. At the same time, i tried to be in the novel by imagining myself as Heathcliff and saying his lines. This really help me to understanding what, why and how the incidents in the novel happened. For me, this activity is not only interesting and enjoying but also help me in getting the true meaning of gothicism.
Ahmad Norsyafiq Bin Mohd 150166 Wordsworth Classic, Chapter 21, Page 162
'Oh, fie, silly child!' I exclaimed. 'If you had any real griefs, you'd be ashamed to waste a tear on this little contrariety. You never had one shadow of substantial sorrow, Miss Catherine. Suppose for a minute, that master and I were dead, and you were by yourself in the world: how would you feel then?Compare the present occasion with such an affliction as that, and be thankful for the friends you have, instead of coveting more.'
Such rare activity surely makes the students become interested in the lesson. However, for me it is more important on order to feel the atmosphere of Wuthering Heights, which focuses on the gothic elements. As one of teh characters, I learn to feel the characters and it makes me understand the story better.
Nur Ziatulliana Bt Lias 150156 Wordsworth Classics Chap.17 Pg123
That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow. On the morrow one could hardly imagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and crocuses were hidden under wintry drifts; the larks were silent, the young leaves of the early trees smitten and blackened. And dreary, and chill, and dismal, that morrow did creep over!
I chose o recite this line as the weather tumult and dark ambiance of the setting there, captures the essence of Gothicism pretty well. This monologue & dress up Activities have helped me in experiencing the theme Gothicism itself in a deeper aspect & understanding.
let me never hear a word more about him! None here care what becomes of him; if you do, act the nurse; if you do not, lock him up and leave him.
I Chose this part because I think it showed the cruelty and violence of Heathcliff towards his own son. He did not act like a father to his son as he asked him to be locked up. He showed no pity in his actions.
chapter 27 (pg 347) " i dont much mind speaking of his amiable qualities now,"he answered"because she must either accept him or remain a prisoner, and you along with her, till your master dies. From here it can be seen that Heathcliff is being violent and this act shows the gothical element in this story.
He seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to ill- treatment: he would stand Hindley's blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him only to draw in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident, and nobody was to blame
"Forgiveness!. I have nothing to forgive her, Ellen. You may call at Wuthering Heights this afternoon, if you like, and say that I am not angry, but I'm sorry to have lost her; especially as I can never think she'll be happy."
This exercise really helped me to know better about the story of the Wuthering Heights and of course! it really helped me.
I chose this part because from the lines, i can sense the changes of emotional, from anger to calm. And from that emotional, I believed it is part of Gothic element.
"Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes..."
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MY SPEECH IS BASED FROM CHAPTER 1 PAGE 7 WUTHERING HEIGHTS BY EMILY BRONTE FIRST HARPER TEEN EDITION 2009
MY CHARACTER IS MR HEATHCLIFF
If u can remember, i recite my lines together with Fadhli. here is my lines..
"what the devil is the matter?"
"they won't meddle with persons who touch nothing"
"the dogs do right to e vigilant. take a glass of wine?"
mohd faiz bin mohd noor
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Chapter 29:
i got a spade from the tool-house, and began to delve with all my might-it scraped the coffin; i fell to work with my hands; the wood commenced cracking about the screws, i was on the point of attaining my object, when it seemed that i heard a sigh form someone above, close at the edgeof the grave, and bending down. (page 364, Harper Teen)
Hi,
ReplyDeleteHow much does this exercise help you in your test?I really hope that in some way it helped you to prepare for your test. I hate it if it was just a waste of time.
Do me a fovor please... put in also some sort of explaination that identifies the speech as one that captures essence of gothicism.
"Ah, Nelly has played traitor,"she exclaimed, passionately. "Nelly is my hidden enemy.You witch! So you do seek elf-bolts to hurt us! Let me go, and I'll make her rue! I'll make her howl a recantation!"
ReplyDeleteMohd Syahir B. Hamzahtulhikmal
150142
Madam Ju,
ReplyDeleteYour activity in class such as this one help us understand more and in some sort we can predict the question that you going ask in the test :D
i identify my line based on a monologue that contains the essence of vengeance in 5 minutes because vengeance is part of Gothic element :D
MUHAMMAD IKRAM B. MUSTAFA 150143
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'Then I hope his ghost will haunt you; and I hope Mr. Heathcliff will never get another tenant till the Grange is a ruin!"
"Hearken, hearken, shoo'scursing on 'em!
This in class activity really helps us to understand this novel from the beginning and by doing this activity we can now focus more on the gothic element which is in fact the main idea in this novel...thumbs up!!!
THe speech above can be identified as gothic because it has the key word ghost where it is the evidence of gothic elements.
chapter 2
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"I shall bid father good night first,"
"oh Heathcliff, he's dead!
Father is dead, Heathcliff."
I find out that those lines contain Gothic element which is death. The death of her father has actually brought the feelings of sorrow and frustration as well as sadness.
Apart from that, I think this activity has given us opportunity to understand this story better especially of the theme Gothicism.
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Amalina Ahmad
150170.
CHAPTER 29
ReplyDelete'I'll tell you what I did yesterday! I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there: when I saw her face again - it is hers yet! - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change if the air blew on it, and so I struck one side of the coffin loose, and covered it up: not Linton's side, damn him!
~Personally the idea of wearing gothic dress in class brought some eerie emotion to me. wow! the class was occupied by black spirit!!The monologues presented by my classmates helped me a lot to find gothic element in the novel. I felt
uncomfortable mingled with my friends that day but it succeeded to make me engulfed with Wuthering height mood! good idea after all!!
Nurul Husna Binti Mohd Noor
150186
Chapter 11
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Monologue: page 84
“ I wish you joy of the milk-blooded coward, Cathy!” said her friend. “I compliment you on your taste. And that is the slavering, shivering thing you preferred to me! I would not strike him with my fist, but I’d kick him with my foot, and experience considerable satisfaction. Is he weeping, or is he going to faint for hear?”
- The gothic elements can be seen through these lines. Here Heathcliff showed his anger and vengeful, which is an element of Gothicism, towards Edgar Linton. In my opinion, the gothic day was a great experience for us. We presented the monologue at Kompleks Akademik in front passer by without any shy or fear. Thanx for Madam Ju for the awesome day…
Porshothman Elenggoven
150144
chapter 33
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page 396
"You're a damned liar," began Earnshaw:"why i made him angry, by taking your part then, a hundred times? and that, when you sneered at, and despised me, and- Go on plaguing me, and I'll step in yonder, and say you worried me out of the kitchen!"
shahrulnizam abu bakar
150145
Nurulnatasha Basok
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Wordsworth Classics
Chapter 3:
'Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!' and maintained its tenacious grip, almost maddening me with fear.'
These lines said by Lockwood.
Activities that have been carried out in classroom definitely helped us in our test especially in understanding the novel. As the novel need critical analysis and one needs to look at bigger picture for give better judgment, therefore I personally feel activities in classroom helped us and me precisely in our previous test. Besides that the activity such as monologue is an eye opener for us because we have to overcome our fear and face the uncommon audience that we usually had (our own classmates). I found we are in undeniable comfort zone while having an activity confined in classroom. So monologue activity in Kompleks Akademik indicated our confidence level when we were standing all alone in public.
Ghost is one of the gothics elements and above lines show Lockwood is in fear after his unexpected encounter with a ghost.
All in all I do enjoy all activities for the reason we need extraordinary challenge to go beyond our limit.
Nor Farhana Othman (150154)
ReplyDelete“I’m trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don’t care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!”
-(page 42, Chapter 7) Wordsworth Classic-
The short lines expressed Heathcliff’s genuine hatred towards Hindley, thus showing us how far Heathcliff was willing to take his revenge toward the other guy. The violent way of thinking in the line can be considered as Gothic.
The activity in the class helps in a sense that it brought up the dark and gloomy feelings from the book into the real world. The early rain that day also helps to boost up the gothic element. In a way, it helps me to understand Gothic atmosphere better.
KUMUTHAMALLAR VISWANATHAN
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'Stop, Miss Catherine, dear!'I interrupted. 'I shall not scold, but I don't like your conduct there. If you had remembered that Hareton was you cousin as much as Master Heathcliff, you would have felt how improper it was to behave in that way.
Chapter 24, page 181, 2nd last paragraph - Wordsworth Classics
In this part, Nelly was angry toward Young Catherine for being rudely to Hareton. It involves total expression of anger and that is the Gothicism of this particular excerpt. Ii helps to provoke anger within myself to express the dialogue according to its mood.
NUR AQILAH AHMAD-150155
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HARPER TEEN
"He's not a human being,"she retorted;"and he has no claim on my charity.I gave him my heart,and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.People feel with their hearts,Ellen: and since he has destroyed mine,I have not power to feel for him: and I would not,though he groaned from this to his dying day, and wept tears of blood for Catherine!
-The lines indicates how Isabella feels so frustrated with Heathcliff's action towards her.Heathcliff breaks her heart and Isabella has no more heart feelings to him.This example can show how violence Heathcliff is when he breaks Isabella's heart and can be considered as Gothic.
-The activity that Madam Ju had conducted last time was good in term of getting us to bring ourselves into Gothic environment and how we dressed all black during that day.For me,students will learn and remember more if this activity can be practiced during the lesson.
Page 74, Chapter 9, Penguin Popular Classic
ReplyDelete“Oh!” said he, releasing me, “I see that hideous little villain is not Hareton: I beg you pardon, Nell. If it be, he deserves flaying alive for not running to welcome me, and for screaming as if I were a goblin. Unnatural cub, come hither! I’ll teach thee to impose on a good-hearted, deluded father. Now, don’t you think the lad would be handsomer cropped? It makes a dog fiercer, and I love something fierce-get me a scissors-something fierce and trim! Besides, it’s infernal affectation-devilish conceit it is, to cherish our ears-we’re asses enough without them. Hush, child, hush! Well then, it is my darling! wisht, dry thy eyes-there’s joy; kiss me. What! it won’t? Kiss me, Hareton! Damn thee, kis me! By God, as if I would rear such a moster! As sure as I’m living, I’ll break the brat’s neck.”
Elements of Gothicism can be seen when Hindley was behaving harshly towards his son, Hareton, who is just a toddler. He even dangling his son and accidentally drops Hareton from top of the stairs but Heathcliff was there to save Hareton. This activity has helped me to understand the feelings instilled in the poem. I even get to see the emotion behind the lines which has helped me to gain more understanding of the novel and it is really a fun activity to be carried out.
G.Gogilavanan
150174
CHIN YU HUI
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"May she wake in torment! Why, she's a liar to the end! Where is she? Not there - not in heaven - not perished - where? Oh! you said you cared nothing for my sufferings! And I pray one prayer - I repeat it till my tongue stiffens - Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living! You said I killed you - haunt me, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe - I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!"
Paragraph 17, Chapter 16, Page 121-122 (Wordsworth Classics)
Clearly, the lines above belong to Heathcliff. It was only at the news of Catherine’s death did he lament all the anger, love and regret within him. Such a display of intense emotion, especially that of anger and pain of one’s death depicts not only brokenness but as well as darkness – all of which are gothic elements. However, what truly brought out the essence of Gothicism in these lines is Heathcliff’s belief in the supernatural – ghosts and souls that he had claimed to know wanders the earth. As Gothicism aims to project a thrill of fearfulness in their work, these lines evidently compel readers to feed upon such a threatening feeling.
When I chose these lines for my gothic monologue, I never realized how tough it would be to get into Heathcliff’s character at this particular scene. His emotions were so extreme that I had goosebumps presenting them! Nonetheless, the experience was priceless; the impact, needless to say was reflected in our test. Having made these lines our own, it was easier to quote them as evidence. All in all, it felt really great to have challenged myself to such a monologue. If given a choice, I’d say we do it again! All credits go to Mdm Juridah for the opportunity! :D
MOHANDAS NAIDU PERUMAL
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CHAPTER 9
PAGE 76
PENGUIN POPULAR CLASSICS PUBLICATIONS
“Nay, don’t,” I entreated. “Mr. Hindley, do take warning. Have mercy on this unfortunate boy, if you care nothing for yourself!”
“Anyone will do better care for him than I shall,” he answered.
“Have mercy on your own soul!” I said, endeavouring to snatch the glass from his hand.
“Not I! On the contrary, I shall have great pleasure in sending it to perdition to punish its Maker!” exclaimed the blasphemer. “Here’s to its hearty damnation!”
He drank the spirits and impatiently bade us go; terminating his command with a sequel of horrid imprecations, too bad to repeat or remember.
“It’s a pity he cannot kill himself with drink,” observed Heathcliff muttering an echo of curses back when the door was shut.
Revenge which takes place in these lines shows Gothicism. Hindley ignores his own son and committed in taking revenge. This activity helps me to get to know more on the elements of Gothicism in Wuthering Heights. Wearing dark clothes (everybody) made me really got into the character.
Chapter 20
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Page 237
Heathcliff, stretching out a hand and dragging him roughly between his knees, and then holding up his head by the chin. ‘None of that nonsense! We’re not going to hurt thee, Linton - isn’t that thy name? Thou art thy mother’s child, entirely! Where is my share in thee, puling chicken?’
This line has gothic element in it because the treatment of Heathcliff towards his own child is too cruel or harsh. Cruelty is one of the elements of gothicism and i think that this search for gothic lines do really help a lot in the test that day. Thanks Mdm Ju. Besides that, the recitation of the line is a preparation for the monologue in theater too.
SAW HUA JI 150187
Ahmad Zahri Bin Asbani
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Whutering Heights
Penguin Classic Publication
Chapter 20, Page 179
"No! What a shame of your mother, never to waken your filial regard for me! You are my son, then, I'll tell you;and your mother was a wicked slut to leave you in ignorance of the sort of father you possessed."
The activity of ghoticism that we have done in the class really helps me to understand the sole element of ghotic that Emily Bronte portrays in the novel. Not only that, it helps me to identify the act of violence done by the characters. Furthermore, I am able to feel how it is like to be Heathcliff who is doomed by tragic love.
Mohd. Faiz Bin Yusof
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Whutering Heights
Penguin Classic Publication
Chapter 24, Page 212
" 'Get to thy own room! he said, in a voice almost inarticulate with passion and his face looked swelled and furious. 'Take her there if she comes to see thee; thou shalln't keep me out of this. Begone wi' ye both!'
This line shows the gothic element by the stretching of voice that we can see above. the shouting of voice indicate the violence shown by the character. This element really helps me get into the novel and because of that i gain my interest in reading it.
Chapter 6, page 59 (HarperCollins Publishers)
ReplyDelete“I had Cathy by the hand, and was urging her on, when all at once she fell down. ‘Run, Heathcliff, run!’ she whispered. ‘They have let bull-dog loose, and he holds me!’ The devil seized her ankle, Nelly: I heard his abominable snorting. She did not yell out – no!”
I find out these lines do have gothic elements as the action of violence has shown by Lintons’ bull-dog when it seizes Catherine’s ankle and makes her unable to run away from it, plus Catherine does not yell at all while she is caught up by it.
Besides, the monologue activity that had been conducted by Madam Juridah last week was really interesting because she was the one who brought us into the “Gothic world” and made everybody wearing all black clothes in her class. For this activity, I think it is good for students as they will practice and remember on what they have learnt during the lesson.
MOHD ISHAN BIN MOHD SHARIN
150184
MOHD HANIS KHAIRI BIN AHMAD NADZRI
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Chapter 30
Wordsworth classic
Page 212
'but his life is not worth a farthing, and I won't spend a farthing on him'
This is uttered by Heathcliff to Catherine when she reported the dying condition of her husband, Edgar Linton. It shows that Linton's life has no meaning or worthless for Heathcliff, and Heathcliff does not mind if anything happen to Linton. At that time, Heathcliff did not think about others anymore, no matter what happen.
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LEE SUE YEN (150151)
'I winked,' he answered. 'I wink to see my father strike a dog, or a horse, he does it so hard. Yet I was glad at first - she deserved punishing for pushing me: but when papa was gone, she made me come to the window and showed me her cheek cut on the inside, against her teeth, and her mouth filling with blood; and then she gathered up the bits of the picture, and went and sat down with her face to the wall, and she has never spoken to me since: and I sometimes think she can't speak for pain. I don't like to think so! but she's a naughty thing for crying continually; and she looks so pale and wild, I'm afraid of her!"
This extract which I've selected from "Wuthering Heights" brings out the element of Gothicism.
It gives us a glimpse into a large part of Linton's characteristic, so cowardly, so inhumanly cruel at times and so lacking of reasonable judgement.
The elements of Gothicism presents itself through Linton's violent depiction of his inner thoughts and feelings towards his father's treatment of Young Catherine. The mention of the gory details - "mouth filled with blood" , "can't speak for pain" , "crying continually" , "pale and wild" - and Linton taking pleasure for that which happened - "I was glad..." , "she deserved punishing for pushing me..." all paint to us a picture of vengeful delight.
One such emotion was difficult for me to portray - as it requires a whole lot of delving into the innermost character of Linton (understanding his lack of maturity, his frailty, and his upbringing from such a hostile environment). Definitely something I found very hard to relate to.
However, I'm thankful for an activity such as this one - Madam Ju having us all donned in Gothic-looking apparel and having each of us select a particular Gothic fragment from the novel to be rehearsed. Truly, this activity spurred us on to discover for ourselves what Gothicism entails - in this world, as well as how it ties in with the novel that we're studying.
Besides that, the activity, I believe, helped me (and those who prior to this activity, may not have an inkling as to what this novel is all about) to sit up in their seats and begin researching, and getting interested in discovering the novel (or at least, their own parts) of the novel. It's definitely a good idea to get us outwardly participating and tailor our style to the mood of "Wuthering Heights". I think this has sparked the interest of many (especially myself) to further discover this novel for my own benefit. And hey, when the first test drew near, it wasn't such a feat to get started on this novel. In fact, by then, I was already beginning to enjoy and appreciate the study of "Wuthering Heights"! All thanks to the creative activity : Gothic - Speech & Fashion. :D
WORDSWORTH CLASSIC
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PAGE 99
LINE 24
"I should laugh and dance for joy, if I found their absence was the total of my miseries, and the rest was an unnatural dream!"
This line has gothic element in it because of the anger that is being stressed here. Gothic has to do with things such as supernatural, violence, dark and anger, so this line is definitely has the same attributes.
Hanan bin Mohd Nor
150175
GUHANESWWARI S.SIVASHAREN (150150)
ReplyDeleteTitle :Wuthering Heights
Author : Emily Bronte
Publisher: Penguin Popular Classics
Chapter : 32
Page : 256
'i'd rayther by th' haulf,hev 'em swearin' i' my lugs fro'h morn to neeght, nor heaken ye,hahsiver!'
'It's a blazing shame, that I cannot oppen t' blessed Bok, but yah set up glories to Sattan , and all t' flaysome wickednesses that iver were born into th' warld! Oh! ye'er a raight nowt; and shoo's another; and that poor lad'll be lost atween ye,Poor lad!' 'he's witched: I'm sartin on't! O Lord, judge 'em, for ther's norther law nor justice among wer rullers!'
I find these line to be Gothic as it shows alot of emotion of the character.As Gothic id being violent and cold,the monologue activity has made me understand the Gothicism that was displayed in the emotion during the recital of the dialogue
Vintage Classics
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"if Harton does not turn you out of the room, I'll strike him to hell," thundered Heathcliff. " Damnable witch! dare you pretend to rouse him against me? Off with her! Do you hear? Fling her into the kitchen! I'll kill her, Ellen Dean, if you let her come into my sight again!"
The rising of the voice projection really interesting! One of the element of Gothic I think? But, from the lines above, we can see that Heathcliff is cruel person,one of the evidence of his cruel characteristic. This get me to know the Heathcliff characteristic better.
ADANI MAIZAN BINTI MOHAMAD
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Chapter 24, Page 204, Line 40-41
(Arcturus Publisher)
"If you don't let me in I'll kill you! If you don't let me in I'll kill you!" he rather shrieked than said. "Devil! devil! I'll kill you, I'll kill you!"
This line is uttered by Linton, Heathcliff's son. This utterances shows his furious and his reaction to kill describes violence. Therefore, these lines represent gothicism as both furious and violence are some of the gothic elements in the novel besides ghosts, dream, and darkness.
Fahmi bin Fahrruzi
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Chapter 18, page 246
HarperTeen Publisher
"I'll see the damned before I be thy servant!: growled the lad.
"You'll see me what?" asked Catherine in surprise.
"Damned - thou saucy witch!" he replied.
MOHD FIKRI FAHAMI BIN KAMARUDIN
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Chapter 3, Page 27, Line 17-33
Arcturus Publisher
As it spoke, I discerned, obscurely, a child's face looking through the window. Terror made me cruel; and, finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes: still it wailed, 'Let me in!' and maintained its tenacious gripe, almost maddening me with fear. 'How can I!' I said at length. 'Let ME go, if you want me to let you in!' The fingers relaxed, I snatched mine through the hole, hurriedly piled the books up in a pyramid against it, and stopped my ears to exclude the lamentable prayer. I seemed to keep them closed above a quarter of an hour; yet, the instant I listened again, there was the doleful cry moaning on! 'Begone!' I shouted. 'I'll never let you in, not if you beg for twenty years.' 'It is twenty years,' mourned the voice: 'twenty years. I've been a waif for twenty years!"
These lines describe Mr.Lockwood dreams about Catherine. His dreams is a nightmare because he sees the ghost of Catherine asks him to let her in as she has been wandering around for twenty years. Ghost is one of the elements of gothicism in the novel.
Wuthering Heights
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Chapter 7, Page 40, 7th paragraph (Last Paragraph in the page)
“He shall have his share of my hand, if I catch him downstairs again till dark,” cried Hindley. “Begone, you vagabond! What! You are attempting the coxcomb, are you? Wait till I get hold of those elegant locks –see if I won’t pull them a bit longer!”
This line indicates the incident that when Heathcliff, now "clean and cheerful," tried to join the party, Hindley told him to go away because he was not fit to be there.
Hindley is the son of Mr. Earnshaw and heir to the Earnshaw’s inheritance. Hindley is also Catherine's elder brother. Hindley abuses Heathcliff and seeks to degrade Heathcliff for winning the love of Mr. Earnshaw. He hates Heathcliff from the start because of his father's preference for him and that is why Hindley treats him badly. Because he is jealous of his father's attentions to Heathcliff, after his father's death he makes Heathcliff into a servant. He later ends up mortgaging his property due to his gambling and drinking debts, and Heathcliff becomes master of Wuthering Heights.
He is a bullying, discontented boy who grows up to be a violent alcoholic when his beloved wife, Frances, dies. He hates Heathcliff because he felt supplanted in his father's affections by the other boy, and Heathcliff hates him even more in return.
Hindley portrays the hatred, violence and anger in the novel. These are the elements of the essence of Gothicism.
From the activity, I am able to identify the gothic element in the novel. This makes me getting clearer picture in identify the essence of gothicism in this story. This is also helps a lot in the test later on because i could understand what essence of giothicism can be interprate and how does it being develop in the novel of Wuthering Heights.
Besides that, i would like to thanks to Madam Juridah who thinks out such way to help us in being able to enhance the learning process by this interesting activity.
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Chapter 3
Page 33
Line 22-25
"T' maister nobbut just burried, and Sabbath no o'ered, und t'sound o' t' gospel still i' yer lugs, and ye darr be laiking! Shame on ye! sit ye down, ill childer! there's book good enough if ye'll read 'em sit ye down, and think o' yer sowls!"
"'The master just recently buried, and the Sabbath not over, and the sound of the gospel still in your ears, and you dare be larking about [having fun]! Shame on you! sit down, bad children! there are good books enough if you'll read them: sit down, and think of your souls!"
Emily's transliterations of Joseph's broad Yorkshire accent are not easy to understand, even for English people. On this page, I take some of his speeches and try and translate them into modern speech.
This lines were taken when Lockwoods reads an entry in a room that leads by Zillah. The entry from a time just after her father died, in which her older brother Hindley makes Catherine and Heathcliff listen to Joseph’s dull sermons. From the entry it’s clear that Hindley hated Heathcliff, but that Catherine and Heathcliff were close.
siti hamidah ali, 150188
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wordsworth edition
'i have no pity! i have no pity! the more the worms writhe, the more i yearn to crash out their entrails! it is a moral teething and i grind with greater energy, in the proportion to the increase of pain'
the line above was uttered by Heathcliff toward young Catherine. he treated Catherine with utmost despisal to take revenge over what the late Catherine had done to him. therefore, he controlled the life of young Catherine opressively without any pity. this portrays the essence of gothicism as Heathcliff treats the young Catherine with violence.
i think the activity that was carried out is effective since it enables me to feel how the ambience of gothic is. i find that gothic seemingly full of evil spirit; violence, gloominess, darkness, etc. it helps me to imagine the story in actual situation where the elements of gothic are concerned.
tq Madam Jue'',)
Farah Noorfarhana Bt Rezemi
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Chapter 11
pg 105 Penguin Popular Classic
I want you to be aware that I know you have treated me infernally-infernally! Do you hear? And if you flatter yourself that I don,t perceive it, you are a fool; and if you think I can be consoled by sweet words, you are an idiot; and if you fancy I'll suffer unrevenged, I'll convince you of the contrary, in a very little while!
Wan Mohd Fadhli Bin Wan Saipuddin
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Chapter 1, page 12, line 26-28
Arcturus Publisher
My Character is: Mr. Lockwood
'What the devil, indeed!' i muttered.’ The herd of possessed swine could have no worse spirits in them than those animals of yours, sir. You might as well leave a stranger with a brood of tigers!'
This is the line when Fahmi and i recite together to show the elements of Gothic which is anger and brutality.
Ahmad Tajuddin bin Sulaiman
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"The stanchions stood too close to suffer his his shoulder to follow, and i smiled, exulting in my fancied security. His hair and clothes were whitened with snow, and his sharp cannibal teeth, revealed by cold and wrath, gleamed through the dark"
this line was said by Isabella to Hindley. This line is to show the dark side of Hindley when he came to meet Isabella.
through this activity, i understand that Gothic plays an important role in Wuthering Heights novel. this is because through out the novel, we can see that the writer use the element of gothic to make the reader understand the atmosphere and the emotion of the characters in the novel.
Abdul Haziq Bin Karim
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Chapter 17
Page 159 (Penguin Green Book)
'Get up, wretched idiot before I stamp you to death!'
This was Nelly's word to Linton when she asked him to go and see his father (Heathcliff). This happened in Truchcrossgrange.
Through this activity, it makes me understand more about the element of gothic in the novel.
For the test, I didn't do the first question.
LEONG FONYI
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Chapter 21, Page 159, Paragraph 3
(Wordsworth Classic)
‘I’ve tied his tongue,’ observed Hearthcliff. ‘He will not venture a single syllable, all the time! Nelly, you recollect me at his age-nay, some years younger. Did I ever look so stupid: so “gaumless”, as Joseph calls it?’
‘I’ve a pleasure in him,’ he continued reflecting aloud. ‘He has satisfied my expectations. If he were born fool I should not enjoy it half so much.
This two paragraph suggest that Hearthcliff is seeking revenge on Hindley by degrading Hindley's son like what Hindley did on Hearthcliff. He sees pleasure surging in when Hareton never go against him instead respect Hearthcliff. Hatred and revenge are part of the Gothic elements.
SITI SURAYA BT NORDIN
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Wuthering Height
Chapter 15
'You and Edgar have broken my heart, Heathcliff! And you both come to bewail the deed to me, as if you were the people to be pitied! I shall not pity you, not I. you have killed me--and thriven on it, I think. How strong you are! How many years do you mean to live after I am gone?'
These lines have essences of Gothicism because of the way Heathcliff and Edgar have broken Christine's heart. Although the violence does not happen physically, Christine has been violated mentally and emotionally. Whatever kind of violence it is, violence is still one of the elements of Gothicism.
The exercise of fashion and speech in class really help me to understand the Gothicism element in this novel. Before the exercise, I only know the word gothic but never really explore the gothic’s world. I think the idea of wearing black was really great. Besides, most of us who never know what is gothic and the elements learnt from the exercise. Reading the monologue in front of my classmate helps me gain my confident. Although I am a little bit nervous in the beginning, I made it. The exercise also helps me to understand the gothic elements. Because of that, I can answer the exam question very well.
In conclusion, I really enjoy our gothic exercise and I hope we will have another gothic day in future.
Mohd Harith Fadhullah B Mohd Said
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Chapter 24 – Oxford University Press
I gave him a cut with my whip, thinking perhaps he would murder me. He let go, thundering one of his horrid curses, and I galloped home more than half out of my senses.
Violence, is one of the essence of gothicism that can be found in this novel. Through this activity it help me in identifying the other essence of gothicism presented in a form of monologue. The idea behind this activity is great, exchanging ideas and thoughts with friends that will be very usefull when answering the exam question.
ikram muzakkir bin mohamad
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chapter 12
page 153
publisher_HARPERTEEN
"i'd kill myself directly!These three awful nights, i've never closed my lids-and oh, i've been tormented! i've been haunted, Nelly.
i am sorry i did not go during the gothic days. hope you accept this. hahahahah....
Wan Mohd Najat Bin Wan Nawang
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Penguin classics
Chapter 17
Page 177
“there’s this to do! That your master’s mad; and should he last another month, I’ll have him to an asylum. And how the devil did you come to fasten me out, you toothless hound? Don’t stand muttering and mumbling there. Come, i’m not going to nurse him. Wash that stuff away; and mind the sparks of your candle – it is more than half brandy!”
This is a rare activity during a literature class. I never been in such a class before. From my opinion, this is an activity which could give the confidence to the students. I, myself could understand the meaning of gothic better than before since the idea of gothic i know before is a little bit different from the meaning i learnt during this class. At the same time, i tried to be in the novel by imagining myself as Heathcliff and saying his lines. This really help me to understanding what, why and how the incidents in the novel happened. For me, this activity is not only interesting and enjoying but also help me in getting the true meaning of gothicism.
Ahmad Norsyafiq Bin Mohd 150166
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'Oh, fie, silly child!' I exclaimed. 'If you had any real griefs, you'd be ashamed to waste a tear on this little contrariety. You never had one shadow of substantial sorrow, Miss Catherine. Suppose for a minute, that master and I were dead, and you were by yourself in the world: how would you feel then?Compare the present occasion with such an affliction as that, and be thankful for the friends you have, instead of coveting more.'
Such rare activity surely makes the students become interested in the lesson. However, for me it is more important on order to feel the atmosphere of Wuthering Heights, which focuses on the gothic elements. As one of teh characters, I learn to feel the characters and it makes me understand the story better.
Nur Ziatulliana Bt Lias 150156
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That Friday made the last of our fine days for a month. In the evening the weather broke: the wind shifted from south to north-east, and brought rain first, and then sleet and snow. On the morrow one could hardly imagine that there had been three weeks of summer: the primroses and crocuses were hidden under wintry drifts; the larks were silent, the young leaves of the early trees smitten and blackened. And dreary, and chill, and dismal, that morrow did creep over!
I chose o recite this line as the weather tumult and dark ambiance of the setting there, captures the essence of Gothicism pretty well. This monologue & dress up Activities have helped me in experiencing the theme Gothicism itself in a deeper aspect & understanding.
Hanisah Bt Zainal Bahrin 150176
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let me never hear a word more about him! None here care what becomes of him; if you do, act the nurse; if you do not, lock him up and leave him.
I Chose this part because I think it showed the cruelty and violence of Heathcliff towards his own son. He did not act like a father to his son as he asked him to be locked up. He showed no pity in his actions.
Narinder Kaur 150152
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" i dont much mind speaking of his amiable qualities now,"he answered"because she must either accept him or remain a prisoner, and you along with her, till your master dies.
From here it can be seen that Heathcliff is being violent and this act shows the gothical element in this story.
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Have the spirits transcended into another world where they embraced puritanism?
owpsy....
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Chapter 4
He seemed a sullen, patient child; hardened, perhaps, to ill- treatment: he would stand Hindley's blows without winking or shedding a tear, and my pinches moved him only to draw in a breath and open his eyes, as if he had hurt himself by accident, and nobody was to blame
Mohd Hasif Izzat bin Abdullah Halim
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Chapter 14 (page 106)- Wordsworth Classic
"Forgiveness!. I have nothing to forgive her, Ellen. You may call at Wuthering Heights this afternoon, if you like, and say that I am not angry, but I'm sorry to have lost her; especially as I can never think she'll be happy."
This exercise really helped me to know better about the story of the Wuthering Heights and of course! it really helped me.
I chose this part because from the lines, i can sense the changes of emotional, from anger to calm. And from that emotional, I believed it is part of Gothic element.
FARIZ REZZA BIN AHMAD SUBKI
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"Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes..."
Chapter 3