He found it (yes, everyone refers to the boy as "it") on the streets, apparently parentless and starving, and brought the boy home. Earnshaw, master of Wuthering Heights, a gloomy estate on the Yorkshire moors, brings back an unexpected "present" from a trip to Liverpool: a "gypsy" orphan in his arms. For all of his speeches about how Cathy is his soul, Cathy's "I am Heathcliff" speech comes closer to the truth: the two of them don't so much love one another as feel such a desperate sense of possession for one another that their mutual obsession occludes all other feelings. Everything that happens is motivated by hate: mostly Heathcliff's, but Heathcliff is like a black hole of hate who sucks everyone else into the orbit of his own hatred and makes them hateful, too in the end, everyone spirals to their doom. This is not a love story it's a hate story. Anyone who thinks Wuthering Heights is a romance must suffer from the same brain damage that makes Edward Cullen dreamy and Severus Snape sexy.
Wuthering Heights is one of those classics I'd never read, nor had I ever seen any of the movies, so all I really knew about this story was that it's a Victorian romance with a guy named Heathcliff whom people generally consider to be an asshole and who's the archetype of the modern "bad boy" romantic hero.Īpparently, this much-beloved book is considered by many to be a timeless romance. It's the story of Heathcliff, an orphan who falls in love with a girl above his class, loses her, and devotes the rest of his life to wreaking revenge on her family.
Wuthering Heights", Emily Brontë's only novel, is one of the pinnacles of 19th-century English literature.
Inverarity One-line summary: Broody McBrooderson starring in Emily Brontë's pioneering work of dysfunctional obsessive lovers may shed some light on why so many chicks dig Snape.
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