Wuthering Heights argument

      Wuthering Heights is a book about ownership. Create an argument in which you draw some conclusion about the work arising from that claim. Who or what is owned? Who or what owns? Is it a class deal? Gender? Something else?   Choose one of the topics below and use it to generate your first argumentative, research- 1. Explore Stephen Crane’s unique expression of a deterministic philosophy as it appears in the pair of his short stories that we’ve examined this semester: “The Blue Hotel” and/or “The Open Boat.” Is this determinism or fatalism or something else? Draw on our class discussion of these stories, as well as on your research, as you develop your argument. 2. Examine the notion of the “arrested epiphany” (as discussed in class) in an assessment of Nan and her experiences in “The Student’s Wife.” What do we learn about Nan that she doesn’t yet know herself? What do we learn about Mike that perhaps even Nan is unaware of? What has Carver given us with this story?3. Examine the thematic appropriateness (and effectiveness) of some of the experiments in narrative/narrator that we’ve looked at lately: Virginia Woolf’s “Kew Gardens” or Vladimir Nabokov’s “Signs and Symbols.” These folks didn’t experiment simply to experiment. Their experimentations are intimately tied to some of the themes of the fiction. (And remember that they’re challenging the way we’re used to reading fiction.) So in this paper, you’re essentially “connecting the dots.” 4. Examine “Time” in Wuthering Heights. Is it a healer? A destroyer?  Does Brontë try to “hide her clock,” as E. M. Forster insists? Why? How? Why is this novel in some ways ALL about Time? 5.  Wuthering Heights is a book about ownership.  Create an argument in which you draw some conclusion about the work arising from that claim. Who or what is owned? Who or what owns? Is it a class deal? Gender? Something else?7. Wuthering Heights tangles together love and violence. Comment on the sado-masochistic elements of the book. Draw some arguable conclusion about the violent nature of the novel. Is Brontë suggesting that people are inherently violent? Is she suggesting that isolation and alienation lead to people to violence? Is she making some sort of cultural comment about violence being inevitable when “others” are thrust into a closed society? Or is it something else?8. Wuthering Heights is a novel about strong women. Create an argument that originates from that claim. Who are they? Are there any who aren’t strong? What does Brontë do with her strong women? Do they thrive? Prosper? Rule? Dominate? Does this novel combat the patriarchal construct? Give in to it? Something else?10. Examine the importance of the storm/calm dichotomy in Wuthering Heights, an element of the novel pointed out to us by Lord David Cecil in the following passage: “Emily Brontë's vision of life does away with the ordinary antithesis between good and evil. To call some aspects of life good and some evil is to accept some experiences and to reject others. But it is an essential trait of Emily Brontë's attitude that it accepts all experience. The storm is as much a part of her universe as the calm.”