3.5 

Wuthering Heights

By Emily Brontë
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Returning from Liverpool, Mr. Earnshaw brings with him a dirty, ragged, black-haired child called Heathcliff, and sets into motion a tale of destructive passions. The book’s two locations, the genteel Thrushcross Grange and the wild Wuthering Heights, serve as matching backgrounds to the characters of their occupants, as they struggle to gain the upper hand in marriage and power. All the while, the ghosts of the past seem to drive revenge more than inspire forgiveness.

Wuthering Heights was Emily Brontë’s sole published novel before her early death at the age of 30. Published under the pen name of Ellis Bell, a shared surname with the pen names of her sisters, many assumed that such a book could only have been written by a man. Reviewers of the time praised its emotional power but were also shocked at the actions of its characters, and most agreed that it was impossible to put down. After the novel’s original publication in 1847 it was revised into a single volume in 1850, and over time has become a classic of English literature. The story has been reworked into plays, operas, films, TV dramatisations and a ballet, and has inspired many further works of art, music and literature.

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3.5
“This is not a romance novel. Let’s start there. But I can say that it is real. I think people hate every single character in this book because they feel so real. There was no hero. Not a single good person… but at the same time, not a single bad person either. The characters in this book were so human. They make mistakes, they fuck up, they do good and bad things… they are human. At the beginning, I was having fun, laughing at Cathy and Heathcliff. But it wasn’t long before everything became so dark and depressing. They took his love away from him. They humiliated him. How can anyone judge him for seeking revenge? Personally, I judge him for being so cruel to their children. At first, I liked Heathcliff, but once he involved the children in his dark, obsessive sickness, that’s when I started to hate him. I even think that if Cathy had ever seen him this way, she would have hated him too. He is not the person she fell in love with. Even at the end, when he saw that the new generation had survived the hell he put them through, he stopped seeking revenge.. not because he suddenly became a nice person, and not because Cathy came back from the dead calling his name. But while I was reading, I sometimes pitied him. He had nothing but revenge. It was his greatest goal in life. Revenge became the only thing that gave his life a purpose. So I found myself sympathizing with him. To live without being loved is torture… I cried a lot while reading this book. And all I’m thinking about now is poor Nelly. How did she survive that sick household? Overall, I really enjoyed Emily Brontë’s language. Such a talented woman.”

About Emily Brontë

Emily Jane Brontë (30 July 1818 – 19 December 1848) was an English novelist and poet who is best known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights, now considered a classic of English literature. She also published a book of poetry with her sisters Charlotte and Anne titled Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell with her own poems finding regard as poetic genius. Emily was the second-youngest of the four surviving Brontë siblings, between the youngest Anne and her brother Branwell. She published under the pen name Ellis Bell.

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