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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
dark
slow-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 wanted to love this book but I found it a real slog to get through due to the awful characters. Parts are violent and show how little rights women had at the time. A sound gothic novel but definitely not to my taste.
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I’ve thought about this novel for a couple days now. Suffice to say Virginia Wolff is correct in thanking Emily Bronte in her preface to ‘Orlando’, for her contribution to the art of literature. I feel having read this my brain has literally grown. Reading modern and classic novels since have proven more enjoyable than challenging (the same can't be said of novels of an esoteric nature like Infinite jest and Ulysses, which are comparable in my sharing of Wolff's opinion of the ladder in that they are pretentions and insufferable). Pretention and insufferability had often been what I expected in classic literature, but instead what I have found is stories of immense originality and close commentary on various aspects of the human experience. This book is 177 years old, and it had me up all night engrossed in whatever vitriolic saucy display of passion the wonderfully illustrated characters might display next. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in classic or modern literature, As well anyone with a propensity for big words that are no longer in commission by our modern use of the English language.
In personal reflection on the novel, I feel it has greatly improved my own cogitations of love, desire, passion and obsession. Having recently spent a lot of time alone, these things occupy an unfortunate amount of space in my mind. Mainly my reflections are found in the character of Heathcliff whose ‘love’ for Catherine Earnshaw is the driving force behind his cruelty to her heirs. Personally, I feel that what Heathcliff attributes to love is nothing of the sort, his is of passionate obsession and is of a purely selfish nature (mind you Catherine Earnshaw isn't so innocent herself, but for the purposes of my thinking I will forego the nuances). Here we see the boiling of resentment and jealousy into vitriol in the face of the object of one's love being held by another. I believe that to love is often to let go, if you love someone deeply and wish to be with them, but they have found love and happiness in another, it is more to love to celebrate their happiness even in one's own absence than to harbor any resentments and anger. To instead place the designs of a usurper, to plot and scheme how one might steal back their ‘love’ is pure selfish obsession.
I still feel like my thoughts on this novel are half formed and I hope I have in some small way imparted at least an inkling of my thoughts on love and desire in contrast to passion and obsession. I'm looking forward to re reading it a couple years down the line as I feel there are still many beautiful little things to be found in these lines laid by Emily Bronte 177 years ago.
Good Book!
In personal reflection on the novel, I feel it has greatly improved my own cogitations of love, desire, passion and obsession. Having recently spent a lot of time alone, these things occupy an unfortunate amount of space in my mind. Mainly my reflections are found in the character of Heathcliff whose ‘love’ for Catherine Earnshaw is the driving force behind his cruelty to her heirs. Personally, I feel that what Heathcliff attributes to love is nothing of the sort, his is of passionate obsession and is of a purely selfish nature (mind you Catherine Earnshaw isn't so innocent herself, but for the purposes of my thinking I will forego the nuances). Here we see the boiling of resentment and jealousy into vitriol in the face of the object of one's love being held by another. I believe that to love is often to let go, if you love someone deeply and wish to be with them, but they have found love and happiness in another, it is more to love to celebrate their happiness even in one's own absence than to harbor any resentments and anger. To instead place the designs of a usurper, to plot and scheme how one might steal back their ‘love’ is pure selfish obsession.
I still feel like my thoughts on this novel are half formed and I hope I have in some small way imparted at least an inkling of my thoughts on love and desire in contrast to passion and obsession. I'm looking forward to re reading it a couple years down the line as I feel there are still many beautiful little things to be found in these lines laid by Emily Bronte 177 years ago.
Good Book!
fast-paced
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Loveable characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It's hard to review this book. I am glad to finally have read it but it wasn't quite what I was expecting. I thought there'd be more love and yearning and haunting and howling on the dark moors. However it was really just a lot of spite and gossipping and people ruining each other's lives. I didn't mind the retrospective story-telling and I enjoyed the writing style, some passages struck me and I wanted to to keep reading but... I didn't love it.
dark
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Boy who categorized this as a romance.
The beginning was so slow it was so hard to get into.
I feel like there was no main plot it was just one long story.
The beginning was so slow it was so hard to get into.
I feel like there was no main plot it was just one long story.
challenging
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Generational traaaaaauma
Is this only a 4/5 because I'm so offended that it's Bella's favorite book in Twilight and therefore Stephanie Meyer's favorite book? maybe 🤔
Is this only a 4/5 because I'm so offended that it's Bella's favorite book in Twilight and therefore Stephanie Meyer's favorite book? maybe 🤔
dark
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes