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audrey_thebookworm 's review for:
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë weaved a story so despairing with monstrous characters - the combination of which truly tested my patience throughout the novel. And yet, Wuthering Heights struck me as very different from the classics of its time. Strung up against the likes of Jane Austen’s work, Wuthering Heights is an outcast of a tale. The novel is less about one’s place in society and more on the individual. She chose to highlight one’s inner thoughts, musings, and how quickly these change over time. Life for these characters is rather dismal - misfortune befalling them either due to their own actions or the manipulative acts of others. It is far from an idealistic romance novel.
I cannot say that Wuthering Heights replaced my favorite classic novel - L.M Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. And yet, I was surprisingly engrossed in the complex tale. She made all the characters seem so real that they haunted my thoughts for many weeks. I felt Heathcliff’s pain as he lost the only person he ever cared for. I felt hot shame for the ridicule Hareton endured due to his lack of a proper education brought about by his father’s neglect. I felt the misery of Mr. Linton who loved his late wife so dearly though she never fully returned his love. So human. So realistic. So authentic. 4 stars!
I cannot say that Wuthering Heights replaced my favorite classic novel - L.M Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables. And yet, I was surprisingly engrossed in the complex tale. She made all the characters seem so real that they haunted my thoughts for many weeks. I felt Heathcliff’s pain as he lost the only person he ever cared for. I felt hot shame for the ridicule Hareton endured due to his lack of a proper education brought about by his father’s neglect. I felt the misery of Mr. Linton who loved his late wife so dearly though she never fully returned his love. So human. So realistic. So authentic. 4 stars!