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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
not entirely sure about my rating yet but let it be said that i had a great time reading this. might be my favorite classic that i´ve read so far yay!
Why do people love this book?!? Everything that happened in it was horrible!
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
I’m sure that there’s something that someone somewhere can latch onto. However, I struggled. I felt like I had to spend more time researching what was going on via Google search than what Brontë was willing to give me.
I think the only reason I enjoyed Pride and Prejudice was because I was told to break down the language of Austen in class, and I was willing to. However, three chapters in and more questions than answers later, I am ready to put this down and begin looking elsewhere.
I think the only reason I enjoyed Pride and Prejudice was because I was told to break down the language of Austen in class, and I was willing to. However, three chapters in and more questions than answers later, I am ready to put this down and begin looking elsewhere.
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
I hate all of these characters omg. They are all the most insufferable people ever. I think the only redeemable thing or thing that I enjoyed about this book was some of the imagery and sort of gothic themes of this book, but besides that everything is shit. Like sometimes I wonder what it was like to live in the 1700s and 1800s but if this was the most interesting type of book they had back then I would go insane. I would be known as the crazy lady who lives in a cottage by herself doing spells and shit and is then accused of being a witch. Like the closest thing they got to fantasy back then is just accusing innocent women as witches, where are the dragons and fairies, where is the fun. Random rant sorry. Also I don’t understand how at least according to all the footnotes Brontë is making an argument against slavery but then she makes heathcliff the one black character is the most evil villain to ever exist, people think he is a literal demon, and he actively tries to ruin everyone’s life for just the fun of it. Omg all I hear about this book is the romance btwn Catherine earnshaw and heathcliff but that is literally only in the first half of the book, and they are both crazy! Damn if I were Isabella while heathcliff is right in front of me saying he doesn’t care for me and that I’m a stupid slut who is too gullible to leave him while talking about Catherine and how he desperately only cares for her I would’ve slapped him into the next century. STAND UP PLEASE! I’d say fav character was Catherine linton at least she had some personality and maybe hareton. Nelly is just hear for the drama like she didn’t ever have to get involved in any of this shit like if I were her and once Catherine linton had left I would’ve just chilled at thrishcross grange and lived my best life, but maybe that makes me a bad person. Nelly was just bored. I don’t understand though the point of having it technically told from Lockwood point of view? Like he honestly adds no value to the story, like the r only argument is oh you get an outsiders point of view but no, we never actually hear much about what he thinks of everything, it is literally just Lockwood retelling everything that Nelly told him which is just nellys point of view of the whole story. Like I saw someone wrote a version of Wuthering heights from nellys perspective but I’m just kind of like how, it is literally already told from her pov. So yeah I would never read this again and once again another example of people romanticizing classics that are so very boring. Cough cough bell jar
Wuthering Heights is anything but a Victorian novel, because neither the awareness of values nor the social structures of the Victorian era, in which the work was created, find room to develop here. This novel has just as little to do with the Romantic era because Emily Brontë’s language style is far too rough and suggestive for that. One can indeed feel reminded of a prosaic Shakespeare, just as the structure of the plot is based on a thoroughly dramatic model. The characters and the topography are brought to elementary opposites, with Emily Brontë completely disregarding the literary scene of her time.
Admittedly, the Yorkshire dialect demands a lot from non-native speakers. In the plot there are subjective perspectives of unreliable and uninvolved narrators, Catherine's and Heathcliff's Byronic outbursts are not easy to understand if you can muster a spark of pity or respect for Edgar and Isabella.
But do good stories always have to be easy to digest?
Wuthering Heights is almost physically painful at times. It has protagonists who speak plain language regardless of loss, it has traditionalists and young rebels, the oppressed, those without a chance and idolatrous lovers and is a ghost and love story, family saga and personal memory, a didactic piece, an explanation for the current states of the characters and in this cruel, intoxicating description of love is a dark, realistic fairy tale. The fact that the characters described live almost without exception in such emotional extremes and thereby wear themselves to the conventions and constraints of their time is not to be blamed in this case on any excessive, self-important writing. The author doesn't roar around egocentrically - she lets the reader see how authentic characters can appear, into which one is compelled to invest themselves in fully.
Quite possibly one of the best books I've ever read.
Admittedly, the Yorkshire dialect demands a lot from non-native speakers. In the plot there are subjective perspectives of unreliable and uninvolved narrators, Catherine's and Heathcliff's Byronic outbursts are not easy to understand if you can muster a spark of pity or respect for Edgar and Isabella.
But do good stories always have to be easy to digest?
Wuthering Heights is almost physically painful at times. It has protagonists who speak plain language regardless of loss, it has traditionalists and young rebels, the oppressed, those without a chance and idolatrous lovers and is a ghost and love story, family saga and personal memory, a didactic piece, an explanation for the current states of the characters and in this cruel, intoxicating description of love is a dark, realistic fairy tale. The fact that the characters described live almost without exception in such emotional extremes and thereby wear themselves to the conventions and constraints of their time is not to be blamed in this case on any excessive, self-important writing. The author doesn't roar around egocentrically - she lets the reader see how authentic characters can appear, into which one is compelled to invest themselves in fully.
Quite possibly one of the best books I've ever read.
just a bunch of people running away, being born, dying, and single-fathering. not precisely in that order.
bitches be like do it for the plot and then be as far removed from the plot as Mr. Lockwood. i'm bitches. #gossipsesh
bitches be like do it for the plot and then be as far removed from the plot as Mr. Lockwood. i'm bitches. #gossipsesh
‘You said I killed you - haunt me then!’ this line changed the trajectory of my life
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes