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trelobin 's review for:
Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights kept hold of my attention throughout. It often gets recommended for its love story or supernatural elements, but those funnily enough were the least interesting aspects to me (but still interesting). I would describe it as a story of hate more than a love story besides.
Its vivid portrayals of heightened emotion, violence, and grim interpersonal relationships are knit with social criticism—class, race, the home, family, gender—which has gotten me interested in reading more domestic gothic literature.
Since I hear a lot about how Wuthering Heights was very progressive for its time, without criticism, I'll give that criticism myself: though Brontë makes a point of showing how the racial discrimination levelled at Heathcliff leads to his spiteful and violent personality, she undeniably employed contemporary tropes about Roma to give him a "roguish" charm to readers.
Its vivid portrayals of heightened emotion, violence, and grim interpersonal relationships are knit with social criticism—class, race, the home, family, gender—which has gotten me interested in reading more domestic gothic literature.
Since I hear a lot about how Wuthering Heights was very progressive for its time, without criticism, I'll give that criticism myself: though Brontë makes a point of showing how the racial discrimination levelled at Heathcliff leads to his spiteful and violent personality, she undeniably employed contemporary tropes about Roma to give him a "roguish" charm to readers.