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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
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
Namun, pikiran keduanya cenderung mengarah ke satu titik yang sama; yang satu menginginkan cinta dan perasaan menghargai, yang lain berhasrat cinta dan keinginan untuk dihargai. Pada akhirnya, mereka berusaha sekuat tenaga meraihnya.
ebuset dah... baca ni novel rasanya kayak lagi diajak masuk ke drama keluarga yg super kusut + full of toxic love + dendam kesumat yg ga berkesudahan. 🙂↔️ plusnya cuma ada di suasana gothic yg adem dan bikin nagih, lol.
'Wuthering Heights' berpusat pada kisah cinta antara Heathcliff dan Catherine, dua tokoh dengan hubungan yg sangaaat intens, sampai-sampai rasa cinta mereka berubah jadi obsesi yg bisa menghancurkan diri mereka sendiri serta orang-orang di sekitarnya. dari awal sampai akhir, cerita mereka ga pernah terasa manis, tapi justru terasa gelap dan penuh konflik. ckck... sangat toxic lah pokoknya. 😃👍🏻
menurutku, yg bikin novel ini beda dari kisah cinta klasik lainnya adalah karna novel ini berani buat nunjukin sisi kelam manusia. di novel ini, cinta ga digambarkan sebagai sesuatu yg menyembuhkan, melainkan justru sebagai sesuatu yg bisa merusak kalau udah berubah jadi obsesi.
Heathcliff, misalnya, adalah karakter yg kompleks bgt—di satu sisi dia korban diskriminasi dan pengabaian, tapi di sisi lain dia juga jadi sosok yg penuh dendam dan kejam. Catherine pun sama, penuh hasrat dan keras kepala, tapi terjebak antara cinta dan status sosial. Heathcliff, yg tampaknya sangat mencintai Catherine, malah banyak melakukan hal-hal buruk karena rasa sakit dan dendamnya. di sisi lain, Catherine juga menyimpan ego dan keinginan yg besar untuk memiliki Heathcliff, yg membuat dia seringkali berujung memilih jalan yg salah. duh, pokoknya hubungan mereka ini benar-benar penuh dengan keegoisan dan hasrat untuk saling menyakiti. 🤯
isu-isu yg diangkat dalam novel ini pun bagiku masih terasa sangat relevan, meski ditulis di abad ke-19, yakni tentang kelas sosial, diskriminasi, kekuasaan dalam hubungan, toksisitas dalam cinta, sampai warisan dendam yg bisa menular sampai ke generasi-generasi berikutnya. Emily Brontë seakan pengen bilang kalau luka dan kebencian yg ga selesai bisa terus membentuk hidup orang-orang setelahnya :x
bagiku, kelebihan novel ini jelas terletak pada atmosfer ceritanya yg kuat banget. setting di pedesaan Inggris yg liar dan berhantu sukses bikin suasana ceritanya terasa makin mencekam. ditambah lagi, karakter-karakternya digambarkan dengan penuh emosi, bikin pembaca terhanyut (meski kadang ngerasa gemes sama pilihan-pilihan mereka.)
soap opera AF! excited to see what emerell fennell does based off this content…
Wuthering Heights I’m so sorry I doubted you in the past. The real horror of this book is looking at my old annotations where I am surprised halfway through the book that Edgar lives at Thrushcross Grange even though that is like key information already established ten billion times
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I started reading this quite hesitantly, thinking it would probably not be for me and it would become a chore to get through, but I actually raced through reading it and was quite captured by the story. I thought it was told really well and didn't linger too long on lengthy descriptions or scene setting which other classics I have read often tend to. I liked that it was mostly told from a servants perspective and I liked most of the characters and they felt real, if a little too prone to saying every thought conveniently aloud to the narrator. I was surprised to find the character of Heathcliff so entirely awful and irredeemable. I thought he might have been a flawed or rough character but he was so completely one note in being vile and vicious! I found him the most flat as a result as it seems unrealistic to me that someone could utterly devote their entire being to spite, with nothing to bring themselves happiness but others suffering. Especially when the resentments he held for the people around him were not even for that bad stuff, and taking revenge on their children after the actual people resented have died is crazy. I enjoyed the authors wide vocabulary too and at times, especially near the beginning there were some comical moments.
challenging
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated