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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This felt like sitting in a romantic era parlor getting ALL the tea from the girlies.
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I swore I'd never read this book and now I'm over here seasoning my words and eating them with a side of humble pie, because I read it and loved it.
dark
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
dark
emotional
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I wish I had read this when I was in school to be able to reflect on it with a teacher and friends because I feel this book is meant for mulling and reflecting further. I switched between reading a digital copy and reading the audiobook so I could enjoy the quotes below and the Yorkshire accent of the narrator. This is a book for the forgiving who enjoy the duality of human nature and themes of revenge, but most importantly for those who are forgiving and appreciate imperfections. I’ve often read reviews that everyone in the world of Wuthering Heights is a bad person, every character is unlikable, but I found that even Heathcliff was worth sympathy. If anything I felt like Joe and Linton Heathcliff were robbed of some development or depth in the book, their characters were shallow with Joe being the least developed and though Linton had different sides to him he was easy to see through for the reader and Nelly just not poor Catherine. I would love to reread this again in the future, it’s a calming port in a chaotic world right now and made me feel some peace during a hard time. The way Brontë writes paints a love of the landscape the heights are set into and every aspect of the story is set in duality. The households are two pillars of civility and wildness, the characters often foil and counter eachother, and the generations repeat these themes until the resolution. I felt like I wanted to know more about Cathy and Haretons days together beyond Heathcliff and the resolution was too fast for the amount of healing their relationship did to the cycle of abuse and revenge. It was overall a beautiful book with complex frustrating characters that pull at your heart but act in such terrible ways you wish you could fix them.
“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” -(chapter 24)
“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath—a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!”-(chapter 9)
“I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and [Edgar's] is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”-(chapter 9)
“I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”-(chapter 34, last paragraph of the book)
“He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.” -(chapter 24)
“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods; time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath—a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!”-(chapter 9)
“I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and [Edgar's] is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”-(chapter 9)
“I lingered round them, under that benign sky: watched the moths fluttering among the heath and harebells, listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass, and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”-(chapter 34, last paragraph of the book)
Gav den 4 stjerner i starten, men er nødt til at give den fem fordi jeg tænker konstant på den
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
All of these characters were so awful & unhinged & I could not love this book more.
challenging
dark
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes