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3.72 AVERAGE
3.72 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
medium-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
challenging
dark
emotional
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I took embarrassingly long time of how to write this review. Wuthering Heights is haunting something in me, and I don't even know what.
Emily Brontë writing is just genius. She captured perfectly the eerie feelings from tortured loves. She chose to tell the story from the trusted maid instead of from one of the main character's POV just highlight how much she understood us as readers. She didn't tell the story TO us; she was telling the story as if how WE would tell the story if WE were all there.
If you ask me what the main point of this book is, it would be about love. Hateful, possessed, unsatisfied, but never dying love. Because love is all there was to have. Ignore the fact that Emily set up the whole premier of this book on just two haunted houses and there was rarely if any new character being brought in. It started with three little kids, and then five teenagers and then life going on with those five forever. Those five people married each other, bear three children, died and then have those children fate intertwined and married each other all over again. BTW we don't talk about first cousin relationship here because apparently, it's normal by the time the book was written.
We have Heathcliff, obviously the main villain in this whole story. He is the root of so much distress and hateful, torture and lying. I don't even know what his deal is. Apparently, he just wants revenge on anybody breathing on this earth. Granted that he was being kept away from the one true love of his life. But in all honesty and fairness, they would have killed each other if they did get together.
Then Catherine, the lady in middle of a love triangle. She is the face of teenager's angst and much of delusional. She wants all. Willing to throw fist at things that don't go her way. I was not shocked at all if she died, she would haunt people.
Oh Edgar, the man that you are. He partly being trapped in this marriage but also willingly stupidly trapped himself in the process. The respect I have for this man is pretty great, especially compare him to Catherine's brother though they were being put in the same circumstances but one rode above, one was a coward.
And little Cathy earned my respect for her as well, though she indeed was bit of a little brat, but she just didn't know more than her own home ground.
Overall, the writing is not as beautifully as Jane Eyer but it's way rawer and truer. It brought out all the uncomfortable questions, grinding the grieves to grave and put yourself in a position to wonder who was actually in love and who was just there to torture everyone.
Emily Brontë writing is just genius. She captured perfectly the eerie feelings from tortured loves. She chose to tell the story from the trusted maid instead of from one of the main character's POV just highlight how much she understood us as readers. She didn't tell the story TO us; she was telling the story as if how WE would tell the story if WE were all there.
If you ask me what the main point of this book is, it would be about love. Hateful, possessed, unsatisfied, but never dying love. Because love is all there was to have. Ignore the fact that Emily set up the whole premier of this book on just two haunted houses and there was rarely if any new character being brought in. It started with three little kids, and then five teenagers and then life going on with those five forever. Those five people married each other, bear three children, died and then have those children fate intertwined and married each other all over again. BTW we don't talk about first cousin relationship here because apparently, it's normal by the time the book was written.
We have Heathcliff, obviously the main villain in this whole story. He is the root of so much distress and hateful, torture and lying. I don't even know what his deal is. Apparently, he just wants revenge on anybody breathing on this earth. Granted that he was being kept away from the one true love of his life. But in all honesty and fairness, they would have killed each other if they did get together.
Then Catherine, the lady in middle of a love triangle. She is the face of teenager's angst and much of delusional. She wants all. Willing to throw fist at things that don't go her way. I was not shocked at all if she died, she would haunt people.
Oh Edgar, the man that you are. He partly being trapped in this marriage but also willingly stupidly trapped himself in the process. The respect I have for this man is pretty great, especially compare him to Catherine's brother though they were being put in the same circumstances but one rode above, one was a coward.
And little Cathy earned my respect for her as well, though she indeed was bit of a little brat, but she just didn't know more than her own home ground.
Overall, the writing is not as beautifully as Jane Eyer but it's way rawer and truer. It brought out all the uncomfortable questions, grinding the grieves to grave and put yourself in a position to wonder who was actually in love and who was just there to torture everyone.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
They’d find each other in hell 🥹🥹🥹
talvez eu devesse escolher algo menos desagradável pra encerrar meu ano, mas quando o negócio é bom, é bom, né?
impressionante como os tiktoters falam tanto de dark romance e homens problemáticos etc e jamais tocam no que é o único e verdadeiro dark romance possível, que é este aqui. heathcliff é não ironicamente o protagonista, o vilão e a maior vítima de sua própria história, o que aumenta ainda mais a tensão quando lentamente se percebe que existe algo sobrenatural rondando o elenco de personagens. personagens estes que são longe de serem santos: seus atos condenáveis coexistem com uma visão cínica e brutal que emily brontë expõe sem nenhum pudor sobre a sociedade britânica daquela época.
é meio de cair o queixo o quão bem classe, raça e gênero surgem cortantes em sua pena. cathy é consideradas por muitos estudiosos como uma das grandes heroínas clássicas da literatura gótica, mas assim como é pouco colocar este livro em somente uma caixinha, cathy assim como heathcliff é bem longe de ser heroína de qualquer coisa. talvez a única com o ódio no coração tão grande quando o jovem romani que surge em sua porta, ela é vingativa, caprichosa, preconceituosa, violenta e irascível – e ainda assim, consigo ver como é facil amá-la.
mas agora: heathcliff é um dos melhores personagens que já li na vida. autores sonham em criar alguém que tenha tanta complexidade e misto de emoções como ele. é possível culpá-lo pelo seu passado? é possível não agonizar perante as escolhas que ele toma pro futuro? a aura de mistério ao seu redor, os segredos e, principalmente, sua determinação que beira a insanidade, o tornam muito mais que um homem problemático. existe um motivo para que este seja um clássico, e também para que quase nenhuma adaptação tenha conseguido captar todas as complexidades dessa história.
é preciso ouvir o fantasma que bate na janela, e deixá-lo entrar.
impressionante como os tiktoters falam tanto de dark romance e homens problemáticos etc e jamais tocam no que é o único e verdadeiro dark romance possível, que é este aqui. heathcliff é não ironicamente o protagonista, o vilão e a maior vítima de sua própria história, o que aumenta ainda mais a tensão quando lentamente se percebe que existe algo sobrenatural rondando o elenco de personagens. personagens estes que são longe de serem santos: seus atos condenáveis coexistem com uma visão cínica e brutal que emily brontë expõe sem nenhum pudor sobre a sociedade britânica daquela época.
é meio de cair o queixo o quão bem classe, raça e gênero surgem cortantes em sua pena. cathy é consideradas por muitos estudiosos como uma das grandes heroínas clássicas da literatura gótica, mas assim como é pouco colocar este livro em somente uma caixinha, cathy assim como heathcliff é bem longe de ser heroína de qualquer coisa. talvez a única com o ódio no coração tão grande quando o jovem romani que surge em sua porta, ela é vingativa, caprichosa, preconceituosa, violenta e irascível – e ainda assim, consigo ver como é facil amá-la.
mas agora: heathcliff é um dos melhores personagens que já li na vida. autores sonham em criar alguém que tenha tanta complexidade e misto de emoções como ele. é possível culpá-lo pelo seu passado? é possível não agonizar perante as escolhas que ele toma pro futuro? a aura de mistério ao seu redor, os segredos e, principalmente, sua determinação que beira a insanidade, o tornam muito mais que um homem problemático. existe um motivo para que este seja um clássico, e também para que quase nenhuma adaptação tenha conseguido captar todas as complexidades dessa história.
é preciso ouvir o fantasma que bate na janela, e deixá-lo entrar.
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
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
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes