1800S/WUTHERING HEIGHTS

MUSIC

• Opera- Luigi Cherubini, Ferdinando Paer, and William Reeve
• Classical- Ludwig van Beethoven, Leopold Kozeluch, and Johann Friedrich Reichardt

Clothing for women included four major layers of clothing: undergarments, foundation garments, daily garments, and outer garments.

Attitudes

Transportation like horse drawn carriages, trains, and boats were used by people to get from one area to another.

Boxing, cricket, and horse racing were among the sports that were popular during this era.

Literature

• Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
• Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
• Emma by Jane Austen
• The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
• Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
• Wuthering Hieghts by Emily Bonte

A "nice-sized" house now would be considered a mansion back then. A house would be a large, open space that would fit a family of around 10.

Education

Women were considered the head of the house to look after the children, clean every room from top to bottom, and cook for the family.

Freak shows were popular but were usually illegal where they were shown. Sports and music were also very popular for passing time.

Technological Devolpements

• The battery
• steam-powered locamotive
• soda fountain
• raincoat
• modern matches
• braille

Political Advances

Important Figures

• Thomas Jefferson - 3rd President of the United States/ Chief drafter of the Declaration of Independence/ promoted ideas of Republicanism
• Meriweather Lewis & William Clark - sent to explore the Louisiana Purchase/ expanded knowledge of the west for coming settlers
• Stonewall Jackson - Confederate general/ his men stopped the Union assault during the Battle of Bull Run
• Harriet Beecher Stowe - wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"/kick started the antislavery movement

World-changing events

• (1803)- the US purchased France's American colonies thus named the Louisana Purchase
• (1820)- Antarctica was discovered
• (1894)- the first commerical film was realised
• (1867)- the US purchases Alaska from Russia
• (1815)- Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo
• (1861-1865)- Civil War

1800 impact
During this era, America blossomed into becoming more industrial and evolving into semi-coherent country.

CHARACTERS

• Heathcliff- protagonist/ picked off the street as an orphan whom was raised by Earnshaw/ goes on tangent from cruel treat in childhood and gets revenge on former "brother and sister" and Catherine
• Catherine- love interest/ falls in love with Heathcliff but marries E. Linton from amount of wealth
• Hindley Earnshaw- the son of Earnshaw/ accumulates wealth and estate when father passes away/ makes Healthcliff do slave and servant work/ part of the root of revenge
• Earnshaw- Heathcliff's mentor and father figure/ dies and leaves estate and wealth to son, causing a root of hatred and grows into feelings of hatred for Heathcliff

SETTING

CONFLICT

• The struggle of Heathciff and his lust for revenge for the people that have made him suffer and the internal struggle of his love for Catherine and how she only married for wealth, not love.

RESOLUTION

• Heathcliff finally lives out his half of his dream: owning both Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange but not getting marrying the love of his life.

THEME

• Social class- the dividing factor of how much wealth a person has determines who and how they are determined to live their life.

Romanticism was packed with literature that was strongly in favor of visual arts, music, and education. The era featured a new spectrum of emotion felt by readers : horror, awe, and sadness.

The Industrial a Revolution influenced a "moral revolt" against the idealistic thought of scientific thoughts of nature.

1800 literature caused an impact on politics, for example 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' was a starting point for the discussion on slavery and the movement of the split of the Union.