gabriellemanno28 's review for:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

2.25

fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

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I hate all of these characters omg. They are all the most insufferable people ever. I think the only redeemable thing or thing that I enjoyed about this book was some of the imagery and sort of gothic themes of this book, but besides that everything is shit. Like sometimes I wonder what it was like to live in the 1700s and 1800s but if this was the most interesting type of book they had back then I would go insane. I would be known as the crazy lady who lives in a cottage by herself doing spells and shit and is then accused of being a witch. Like the closest thing they got to fantasy back then is just accusing innocent women as witches, where are the dragons and fairies, where is the fun. Random rant sorry. Also I don’t understand how at least according to all the footnotes Brontë is making an argument against slavery but then she makes heathcliff the one black character is the most evil villain to ever exist, people think he is a literal demon, and he actively tries to ruin everyone’s life for just the fun of it. Omg all I hear about this book is the romance btwn Catherine earnshaw and heathcliff but that is literally only in the first half of the book, and they are both crazy! Damn if I were Isabella while heathcliff is right in front of me saying he doesn’t care for me and that I’m a stupid slut who is too gullible to leave him while talking about Catherine and how he desperately only cares for her I would’ve slapped him into the next century. STAND UP PLEASE! I’d say fav character was Catherine linton at least she had some personality and maybe hareton. Nelly is just hear for the drama like she didn’t ever have to get involved in any of this shit like if I were her and once Catherine linton had left I would’ve just chilled at thrishcross grange and lived my best life, but maybe that makes me a bad person. Nelly was just bored. I don’t understand though the point of having it technically told from Lockwood point of view? Like he honestly adds no value to the story, like the r only argument is oh you get an outsiders point of view but no, we never actually hear much about what he thinks of everything, it is literally just Lockwood retelling everything  that Nelly told him which is just nellys point of view of the whole story. Like I saw someone wrote a version of Wuthering heights from nellys perspective but I’m just kind of like how, it is literally already told from her pov. So yeah I would never read this again and once again another example of people romanticizing classics that are so very boring. Cough cough bell jar