Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Wuthering Heights - Question #1

Emily Bronte’s novel, Wuthering Heights, had an amazing story to it. She wrote in a beautifully descriptive way and it really made the novel an enjoyable one, even though it was rather dark. Emily Bronte seems to really value true love. She likes the idea of opposites attracting, instead of the two people in love being exactly alike. Heathcliff was an orphan, and Catherine was brought up by a well-off and classy family. Even though Heathcliff and Catherine were deeply in love, they were kept apart by the dark romance that their love was based on.  Emily Bronte decides to make Catherine marry Edgar Linton, who was basically the handsome “perfect” young man that love stories are usually about. I believe that Emily Bronte had more of a dark attitude when it came to love, or just life in general, due to how the book ran. I did enjoy the book, but it did have a dark feeling about it, due to the domestic violence within it.

The book was written in the perspective of Lockwood for most of the novel, but then Nelly Dean starts narrating from her perspective.

Bronte, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York: Random House, 1943. Print.

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