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staghunters 's review for:
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
fast-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
WHERE do I even begin? Throws up so many debates and questions and engages in some, while offering others for the reader to answer. Is having a good character something innate, or shaped? Can it be nurtured after being so utterly trampled? I couldn't help but place Heathcliff and Hareton on some axis. Nelly's fondness of the latter and sympathy for the former speak of something, and her plight that Hareton is not as ruined and beyond hope of growth as Heathcliff would've liked him to be, and yet, while Nell doesn't outright voice it, could not the same have applied to Heathcliff? Could a world with more kindness to him have made him a better, happier man?
There's so much more to this, particularly in that every character crafted by Brontë is so full of emotion and motivation, so repulsive and yet so sympathetic. Completely in tune with the human experience.
There's so much more to this, particularly in that every character crafted by Brontë is so full of emotion and motivation, so repulsive and yet so sympathetic. Completely in tune with the human experience.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death