Table of content - Wuthering Heights: A Level

Why is Wuthering Heights still studied and enjoyed today?, Wuthering Heights: A woman’s place in literature, The Gothic genre, Social context, Study focus: Key issues to explore

The beginning, Childhood, Marriage, Heathcliff and Isabella, The next generation

Summary, Analysis, Extract analysis, Extract analysis

Section One: Check your understanding, Section Two: Working towards the exam, Progress check

The characters, Catherine, Heathcliff, Edgar, Isabella, Linton, Hareton, Cathy, Nelly, Lockwood, Joseph

Love, Nature and culture, Property and ambition, Morality and education

Section One: Check your understanding, Section Two: Working towards the exam, Progress check

The influence of different genres, ‘A rude and strange production’, Genre-busting, The Gothic, Study focus: Features of the Gothic

Dual narration, Progress booster: Narrators or actors?, Revision task: An unreliable narrator

The narrators, Dialect, Poetic language, Imagery and symbolism

Section One: Check your understanding, Section Two: Working towards the exam, Progress check

Historical context, Settings, Literary context, Comparative texts

Critical history, Contemporary approaches

Section One: Check your understanding, Section Two: Working towards the exam, Progress check

How will you be assessed?, What do the AOs actually mean?, What does this mean for your revision?

Five key areas, 1. The structure of your answer/essay, Aiming high: Effective opening paragraphs, 2. Use of titles, names, etc., 3. Effective quotations, Aiming high: Effective use of quotations, 4. Techniques and terminology, 5. General writing skills

Writing your response, Introduction to your response, Main body of your response, Conclusion

Writing your response

What is a critical interpretation?, Writing about critical perspectives

Introduction, Decode the question, Plan and write