wuthering heights

Dear HSC English students ,
Here's one way to learn your Module B essay material! Just sing this to the tune of Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights on repeat!
XX Minnie

Wuthering Heights Parody
Inside my wiley
Angsty mind
There are two distinct things
The individual
And the shadowyyyyyyy
Too hot, too greedy
Repressed by societyyyyyyyyy
It’s wanting to
Possess you
Says the Psycho-
Analytical reading

Primitive inhumanity
Portrayed through animal imagery
“Wolfish man” of Wuthering, Wuthering
Wuthering heights…

Heathcliff — “Mad dog”, you’re my shadow
You scare people off
With your “gush of grief”
Coming out of your window
Oooooooooh
Heathcliff — It’s me, I’m Cathy
Once your equal
“Rough headed counterpart”
Till we saw the Grange window
Oooooooooh
Heathcliff — Reject you, I had to
By marrying
Edgar Linton
But you came back to haunt me
Black villain!

I like this view!
It lets us treat
The author as human too
With the same angst
And identify with you
Your subconscious view
But it’s reduced the book
To Gondal fantasy
And ignored G2
And the time period
Its idiosyncrasies too

What about divides of race
Manifested in his savage, “gipsy” dark face
The uncivilised Wuthering, Wuthering
Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff — You’re “it”, quite unfit
Is your “gibberish”
Your foreign tongue
Has dehumanized you
“Out-and-outer!”
Heathcliff — Lockwood, is a dodgy
Narrator, he’s
Morally myopic
Like the Lintons’ spectacles
Ooooooooh
Heathcliff — “Light hair” and “fair skin”
Make the Lintons
Like British colonisers
Reverse the gaze through your window
At a Black Villain

Oooh “a centipede”
“From the Indies”
Is Isabella to you
It doesn’t work
Colonial jerks
Young Cathy will tame you
Teaching Hareton to read
It’s a critique
Of Imperialism
And racial arrogance

It was a concern of the time
And considers, all the novel’s lines
But it’s a product of society, Wuthering,
Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff
You’re me, I’m Cathy
We’re soul mates
Fusing organically
Come “absorb” my corpse
Ooooooh
Heathcliff

We cross boundaries
Between worlds
Physical and spiritual
“Great glass panes” of your window
Oooooooh
Heathcliff
“The dead
Are not
Annihilated!”
We unite binary oppositions
Dualllliiiiiity

Ooooh! Both the Psycho
And the Postcolonial
Have binary oppositions in them
Shadow/individual
Savage/civilised
Are broken by our passion
We can’t be split, love
My “curl of dark hair”
Is “twisted” with your
“Black lock”

The black villain now I know
Being united with light he wants to show
Yin and Yang of Wuthering
Wuthering
Wuthering Heights

Heathcliff
Can you see, timelessly
Why we’re here?
It’s so metaphysical!
Let’s celebrate the individual!
Yaaaaaaaaayyyyy
Heathcliff,
See me, duality
Like storm and calm
In all approaches!
Let the feminists rant too
Oooooooooh
Heathcliff
Readers contemporary
Dismissed you
They were shalloooooow
Many readings now we know
Novel’s a dialooooooguuuue

Ooooooooh! What about gothic?
Let us break more barriers!
Ooooooooh! Like the magic!
Of the “ghosts and goblins”!
Like the setting!
Wuthering!

Pathetic fallacy
Its eerie antiquity
“Primitive structures”
“Obliterated by dust”
“Shattered prison” confines you
“Wind whirled wildly throoooough”
Isabella
Is the damsel
“A fool” to faults
Of the Byronic hero
Isolated through language
Yorkshiiiiirrrrrreee
Heathcliff
Demon lover
“Rather morose”
A violent lonerrrrrrr
“Tiger”, “Devil” and “Hellish”
“Villain!”
Module B
Says Bronte’s a mystery
Subjective
Ambiguous and unexplaaaaaiiiiined!