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Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

 

Description: ISBN 0141439556 / Author: Emily Bronte / Genre: Classic Literature / Wuthering Heights (1847) - the story is narrated by Lockwood, a ... more
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte ... gentleman visiting the Yorkshire moors where the novel is set, and of Mrs Dean, housekeeper to the Earnshaw family, who had been witness of the interlocked destinies of the original owners of the Heights. In a series of flashbacks and time shifts, Brontė draws a powerful picture of the enigmatic Heathcliff, who is brought to Heights from the streets of Liverpool by Mr Earnshaw. Heathcliff is treated as Earnshaw's own children, Catherine and Hindley. After his death Heathcliff is bullied by Hindley, who loves Catherine, but she marries Edgar Linton. Heathcliff 's destructive force is unleashed, and his first victim is Catherine, who dies giving birth to a girl, another Catherine. Isabella Linton, Edgar's sister, whom he had married, flees to the south. Their son Linton and Catherine are married, but always sickly Linton dies. Hareton, Hindley's son, and the young widow became close. Increasingly isolated and alienated from daily life, Heathcliff experiences visions, and he longs for the death that will reunite him with Catherine. Mr. Heathcliff: The orphan boy Mr. Earnshaw found in Liverpool. He becomes Mr. Earnshaw's foster son, and the foster brother of Catherine and Hindley. He looks very different with his dark skin, hair, and eyes, and his speech is at first incoherent. He becomes best friends with Catherine, but Hindley hates him. Father favors Heathcliff, and becomes furious when he is treated poorly. They form a sort of team, though Heathcliff never shows much love or appreciation. He eventually becomes selfish and mean from all this attention, and his favored spot means he can get what he wants from his brother and sister. After Mr. Earnshaw's death, Hindley returns and makes Heathcliff a servant, refusing him the right to speak to Catherine. Life becomes miserable, and the little outsider blames Hindley; revenge becomes his only goal in life. Grown evil and cruel, he gets his chance when Hindley becomes mad after his wife's death, and Heathcliff is able to take Wuthering Heights from him. Catherine, his love, marries Edgar Linton and dies in childbirth. To revenge himself against the Lintons, Heathcliff marries Edgar's sister, treats her terribly, and raises their son only because he can help further his revenge.

Newest Review: ... families who are united in marriage and their hatred for one another. it revolves around a cruel tryrant called Heathcliff ... more

 ... who is unable to show any true affection for anyone except his true love, Catherine. I am reluctant to expand on the plot any further than this as it would spoil it for the reader, but sufice to say that it is not a conventional love story. There are tears, heartache and despair. There are several ongoing themes of the novel such as madness and I would recommend this book for anyone interested in an insight into opinions of women in the mid-nineteenth century. One thing that I found confusing about the book is the...more

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monalipschitz
Crowned Review Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte: A Favourite Thing: Passion Poetic. (1799 words)
by monalipschitz - written on 19.07.02 (Very useful, 2114 readings)
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You know when you read a book and it exceeds all expectations to such a degree that as soon as you have finished reading it you go straight back to the beginning and start again? A book which becomes so much a part of your consciousness that you quote from and and refer to it in every day circumstances. A book you can read time and time again without ever getting bored. In short it's your desert island book. 'Wuthering Heights' is one such book for me. So what makes it so wonderful? In order to answer that question, a little information about the author and her time might be helpful. Emily Bronte was born in 1818, one of six children, and grew up ...

MattRoberts
Premium Review Emily Bronte's Great Story Of Hate (2647 words)
by MattRoberts - written on 15.08.03 (Very useful, 503 readings)
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Wuthering Heights is a tragic love story, and has even been labelled “Emily Bronte’s great story of hate.” And in a way, that’s true. Almost every character hates each other, and rarely loves, I mean real love, and affection is shown. Emily was brought up in the moors, and this is the setting for this novel. She was brought up with her two sisters - Charlotte (The Professor, Jane Eyre) and Anne – (The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall, Agnes Grey) and her brother Branwell. Her two other sisters had died young, and her Mother a year after Anne’s birth. Her Father immediately chose Branwell as the star of the family, and gave him ...

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Premium Review Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte: Two souls cut from one cloth. (1005 words)
by Bryn Pearson - written on 21.08.01 (Very useful, 307 readings)
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Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" appears to be a book that readers will either love or hate, depending largely on whether or not they find the central characters sympathetic and believeable. It is a strange tale, full of reperssed passion and feelings that are never fully expressed. Dominated by images of gloomy, windswept moors and falling rain, this is, depending on your perspective, a bok about two unpleasant people who get what they deserve, or a portrayal of a tragic passion that touches the heart. The story is framed in a curious manner - a traveler stops at a gloomy house, where he learns the tale of those who had been there before him. The tale ...

 
 
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