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A review by lyterially
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
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
4.25
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.