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Settings ? time : The action of Nellys story begins in the 1770s; Lockwood leaves Yorkshire in 1802. ? place: All the action of Wuthering Heights takes place in The Yorkshire Moors: ---Wuthering Heights: Chaos, ignorance ---Thrushcross Grange: civility, order North Yorkshire Moors English moors- Heather Wuthering Heights Literature Reading By Emily Bront ? Contents I. Background of the Novel ---The Victorian Period --- Emily Bronte II. Analysis of the Novel ---Genre ---Setting ---Characters ---Plot III. Assignments The Victorian Period (1832-1901) ? a prosperous time named after Queen Victoria ? During this era, there were restrictions on child labor and abolition of slavery Enormous Social Change: Industrialization and technological innovation Industrial cities, factory life Workers in a Tobacco Factory Wretched living and working conditions, exploitation Engels, The Condition of the Working Classes in England (1844) Homeless Boys (1880) London 1872 The Rise of the Middle Classes ? Economic Dominance ? Transfer of Power from Aristocracy ? ‘Puritanism ? Strong Work Ethic ? Philosophy of self-help and self-reliance The World Stage ? Position of World Dominance ? Revolutions elsewhere (1848) ? Colonialism/Imperialism (1847) ? Ireland Key Thinkers Karl Marx Sigmund Freud Charles Darwin The Rise of the Novel the Rise of the Woman Novelist George Eliot Elizabeth Gaskell Victorian Period ? Gothic Revival architecture became increasingly significant in the period. ? Most writers wrote of love, beauty and darker themes as opposed to those of the Romantic Period Emily Bront ? ( 1818-1848) ? Emily Bronte, sister of Charlotte and Anne Bronte, was born at Torenton Village in the Western Yorkshire. ? She attended the clergy school within a year and spent her life at home in self- le