Wuthering Heights depicts the story of Heathcliff, an orphaned gypsy who falls love with a girl in a higher class, yet a girl who loves him back. Once he loses her, he seeks revenge on her family for the rest of his life.
My Rating: 5 out of 5
Wuthering Heights – the classic novel depicting true love, lost love and every love in between – the intelligence and power with which Emily Bronte writes makes this novel, allows the reader to feel the emotions and experience the love between Cathy and Heathcliff, after all as is said within the novel, “I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!'” The use of the dark and foreboding hero along with the stubborn heroine makes for a fiery mix of action and passion, with their similarly flawed characters making amazing fiction – unnatural perhaps for this era of writing. It may be because of these characters that it has become so successful; Bronte does not correct or empower them, she merely lets the reader make of them what they will, leaving the pair at the mercy of the reader. It moves away from the traditional romance stories, dragging the reader deeper and deeper into the story, yet instead of ruining it like has happened before, it merely intensifies the success and impact it has had on many generations gone and many generations still to come.
Of course, Wuthering Heights would not be Wuthering Heights without Joseph – the stubborn and cruel servant, who adds a slight humour to the novel through Bronte’s use of a strong Yorkshire accent, making him virtually impossible to understand unless read out loud. The wilderness of the Yorkshire Moors and the wilderness of the two main characters makes for a ageless classic that people will always love, even when they cannot see why they like Cathy and Heathcliff’s dark personas and why they truly make the story.
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