WUTHERING HEIGHTS AND

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSE

TAYLOR GUTHRIEPRESENTATIONADAM COLTON

DECEMBER 9, 2013

THESIS Although these two books share many

differences, their similarities with a creepy house, complex relationships between characters and eerie settings show many similarities and how the authors both had a similar theme.

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:INTRODUCTION Story begins in 1801 Main character, Lockword, visits his

landlord, Mr. Heathcliff, at a manor called Wuthering Heights

Decides to visit Mr. Heathcliff again not long after and when he arrives the weather becomes to bad for him to walk home

During his stay there, he half awakes to a ghostly hand sobbing the name “Catherine Linton”

He runs home full of fear

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:INTRODUCTION CONTINUED Thinking about the night before, the

next day Lockword asks his housekeeper, Nelly Dean, to tell him the strange history of Wuthering Heights and what happened there

Nelly used to be a housekeeper at Wuthering Heights so she begins to tell Lockword everything she knew

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT Mr. Heathcliff was adopted as a child

and falls in love with his step sister, Catherine

Hindley, his step brother, hated him and at Christmas he locked Heathcliff in the attack upstairs

Years later, Hindley gets married to a girl named Frances but she dies shortly after while giving birth to a baby boy, Hareton

Catherine beings to fall in love with her neighbor Edgar, Mr. Linton’s son

Heathcliff is very upset and humiliated

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT CONTINUED Edgar asks Catherine to marry him and

she says yes Heathcliff runs away after hearing the

news and Catherine almost dies while searching for him in the cold

Catherine recovers from being sick but kills Mr. and Mrs. Linton with her disease

Edgar and Catherine get married three years later

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT CONTINUED Heathcliff returns home six months after

their marriage Heathcliff has grown into a polished,

handsome and wealthy man Catherine is more than happy to see

him Edgar’s sister, Isabella, falls in love with

Heathcliff Edgar can see Catherine still loves

Heathcliff and tells her to choose between them so she locks herself in a room but becomes very sick

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT CONTINUED The same night Catherine recovers,

Isabella and Heathcliff elope Months later, Isabella runs to Nelly and

tells her that Wuthering Heights is terrible, Healthcliff treats her horribly and Hindley is obsessed with killing Heathcliff

Heathcliff demands to see Catherine when she gets sick again and near death

Catherine admits to Heathcliff she cannot live without him

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT CONTINUED Catherine dies that night giving birth

two months prematurely to baby Catherine

Soon after, Isabella leaves Wuthering Heights for London and gives birth to Linton

Isabella dies when Linton is twelve so he goes to Wuthering Heights to live with his father where he treats him like property

Six months after Catherine’s death, Hindley dies and Heathcliff takes over Wuthering Heights

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:PLOT CONTINUED Catherine grows up with no knowledge

of Wuthering Heights until she escapes to find out

Heathcliff wants Catherine and Linton to get married and makes her visit Linton when he is very sick

Heathcliff locks Catherine and Nelly in the house until Catherin and Linton are married

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:ENDING The story Nelly tells Lockwood about

Wuthering Heights is reaching to present day

Edgar passes away soon after they are married

Heathcliff removes half of the original Catherine’s coffin so that a side of her can be with Edgar and the other side will be by Heathcliff when he dies

Nelly has not seen Catherine since Nelly left Wuthering Heights

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:ENDING CONTINUED Nelly wants Catherine to come live with

her and thinks the only thing that can save her is another marriage

After hearing this story, Lockwood plans to tell Heathcliff he is moving to London for six months to find another tenant

He does not want to spend another winter in such strange company

Lockwood goes to end his tenancy at Wuthering Heights and takes Catherine a note from Nelly

WUTHERING HEIGHTS:ENDING CONTINUED Lockwood returns six months later to

find that Nelly had moved back into Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff is dying and when he does, Catherine and Hareton will get married

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEINTRODUCTION Story begins in the 1950s Dr. John Montague is a doctor of

philosophy that has been searching his entire life for a real haunted house

He discovers a house called Hill House He needs assistants to join him so he

writes to twelve while only two agreed to come with him

The two assistants are Eleanor Vance and Theodora

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEINTRODUCTION CONTINUED Dr. Montague tells the girls not to stop

anywhere on the way to Hill House due to people being unfriendly when mentioned

Eleanor stops anyway to find out as much as possible

When Eleanor arrives at the house, Mr. Dudley, the care taker, warns her about the dangers

She says the house is vile and shivers at the sight of it

She wishes she had turned back at the gate

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEINTRODUCTION CONTINUED Mrs. Dudley shows her to her room and

says dinner is ready at six o’clock sharp because she leaves directly after to avoid the night

Theodora teases Eleanor about being scared and comforts her greatly

Luke also joins them in the house. He is a member of the family who owns the house

Dr. Montague plans to write a book about their experience

Theodora and Eleanor beg Dr. Montague to tell them what is going to happen to them

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT Dr. Montague says he discovered a tale

of a suicide, madness and lawsuits connected to Hill House

He chooses Theodora and Eleanor as assistants because Theodora has documented telepathic ability and Eleanor has been involved with poltergeist phenomena when she was younger

Dr. Montague goes on with the story

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT CONTINUED Hugh Crain built the house. Before his

wife saw the house, her carriage overturned in the driveway and killed her instantly

The second woman he married died unexpectedly in a fall

His third wife died of tuberculosis He had two daughters, his youngest

committed suicide Huge Crain designed every angle of the

house to be slightly off and that is why they always got lost

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT CONTINUED In the nursery is a big cold spot, it

seemed to be the most haunted room in the house

The first night they all slept well but the second night the girls awoke to a crashing sound outside the door

The boys did not hear the crash at all The next day, written on the wall in

huge chalk letters said “HELP ELEANOR COME HOME” but Theodora was the one who did it to scare Eleanor

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT CONTINUED Then, in Theodora’s room written on the

wall in red paint it said “HELP ELEANOR COME HOME ELEANOR”

Eleanor was not frightened at all this time and they believe she might have been the one to do it

That night, the girls stayed in Eleanor’s room. Eleanor hears crazy laughter and babbling in Theodora's room. She hears a child’s voice and screams, Theo wakes up and Eleanor wonders who hands she was holding

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT CONTINUED Eleanor starts to like Luke, Theo mocks

Eleanor about it Dr. Montague’s wife comes to the house

to see if she can feel or hear anything That night, Eleanor hears the crashing

sound and tiny laughter again. Mrs. Montague claims she heard nothing at all

Eleanor constantly says “Journeys ending in lovers meeting” throughout the book. She wants to live with Theodora after summer because for once she is finally happy

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEPLOT CONTINUED Late that night, Eleanor can not sleep so

she goes by the library and hears her mothers voice so she follows it

Everyone in the house begins looking for Eleanor and she prances through the house hiding from them

She begins to climb the iron staircase to the tower and Luke risks his life with the unstable staircase and goes up to get her and bring her down

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEENDING The next morning, Dr. Montague says

she has to pack her things and leave. He thinks it is unsafe for her to be in the house

Eleanor laughs and says she can’t leave and that the house wants her to stay

They will not let her back in and make her get in her car to go home

She says they cannot make her leave again as she goes to her car

As she goes to leave she drives her car right into the looming tree and crashes

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEENDING CONTINUED They all leave the house after that and

go back to their original lives The house had very strong feelings for

Eleanor and would not let her go The evil in the house acted through

negative emotions and possessed her The same tree that took two other lives

took Eleanor's

THE HAUNTING OF HILL HOUSEENDING CONTINUED She shakes off the possession just in

time to witness her own death, she had no idea what she was doing the last second before she died

Throughout Eleanor and Theodor’s time there, they acted like the two sisters who used to live there

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