Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights is a wild, passionate story of the intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated, leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries. The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic grandeur of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.
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Community Reviews
A dark and haunted novel that centers around the life of the deeply disturbed Heathcliff and his tumultuous relationships with the Earnshaw and Linton family, particularly Catherine, from the perspective of the housekeeper Ellen “Nelly” Dean.
We never see the story through Heathcliff’s eyes. A childhood of his adoptive brother Hareton Earnshaw and the wealthy Edgar Linton abusing him and discriminating against him for his background certainly suggests that his resentful and vindictive nature in adulthood didn’t just come out of nowhere. Not to mention the fact that Catherine Earnshaw is the only one in their family to treat Heathcliff with any kindness, aside from Mr. Earnshaw. His obsession with Catherine is deeply unhealthy, but there weren’t many other people his age who treated him well when he was growing up either, so it does make sense.
That being said, Wuthering Heights is still a haunting tale that’s well worth the read. Yes, Heathcliff is the worst. Catherine Earnshaw isn’t much better. Most of the characters are in the morally gray area at best. They’re human, though, and there is closure at the end.
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