Wuthering heights - Emily Bronte > Reviews

Advantages: Beautiful Work of Literature
Disadvantages: None whatsoever

...of two households: the earthy Wuthering Heights and the 'refined' Thrushcross Grange. Old Mr Earnshaw goes away on a business trip to Liverpool and returns, not with the promised presents for his children Hareton and Cathy, but with a young street urchin named Heathcliff. As the children grow up together Heathcliff becomes the catalyst for division and hatred, while he and Cathy become closer. Can forbidden love survive society? and what will it's ... Read review

Advantages: Classic Story, Strong characters. Classics often cheap.
Disadvantages: Difficult language. Some complications

Wuthering Heights is a book about people. It’s a soap opera in the lives of two households in early 19th century northern England and is one of those books that you just have to read. It’s often mistaken for a love story telling the story of the famous romance between Catherine and Heathcliff. That was one of the mistakes I made. Although there is a relationship explored between these two characters, it’s by no means the main ... Read review

Advantages: One of the greatest love stories
Disadvantages: First half of book better than second

...one and only novel. WHAT IS WUTHERING HEIGHTS ABOUT? "...how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same;...My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!" (Cathy Earnshaw talking to the housekeeper Nelly Dean about Heathcliff) Tagline: Love sometimes ... Read review

Advantages: The greatest novel ever written
Disadvantages: The Hollywood film - don't watch it!

...novel, published in 1847, was Wuthering Heights. She wrote it under the deliberately asexual pseudonym Ellis Bell: it was written at a time when female novelists were frowned upon and unlikely to find an audience. It's set in the only place Emily really knew: the Yorkshire moors. Emily Bronte had a miserable and poverty-stricken childhood. Her mother died when she was three and two of her sisters died from typhoid contracted at the harsh and ill-equipped ... Read review

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Disadvantages: none

Wuthering Heights is the unusual love story between Cathy and Heathcliff in the Yorkshire Moors. They meet each other in their childhood after Cathy´s father has collected the exotic boy Heathcliff from somewhere and treats him like his own son. Cathy and Heathcliff seem to be made for each other but one day Cathy meets handsome Edgar, is attracted by him and tells that to her nanny. Heathcliff listens to, feels betrayed and disappears. Years ... Read review

Advantages: powerful, moving
Disadvantages: of its time.

...could not be discussed in Wuthering Heights, just as social conventions were much more rigid. If you try to judge the book against the practises of our own time, it will make limited sense. You have to accept the existence of the world that it implies. ... Read review

Advantages: It is well written, but...
Disadvantages: a little long

...Catherine Earnshaw. While living at Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff, a gypsy boy of unknown origin, is brought into the family by Catherine's father and suffers a terrible childhood at the hands of Catherine's elder brother, Hindley. Hindley begrudges Heathcliff because he usurped his place in his father's heart and affections. Mr. Earnshaw dies. Hindley marries and has a child, Hareton, and his wife then dies. As Catherine grows up she realises ... Read review

Advantages: Powerful wonderful wonderful
Disadvantages: Its reputation as a classic means that it is avoided by some

...Emily Bronte and the novel Wuthering Heights can be quite off putting for people. The thought that this book will be studied and analysed across the country in schools and universities can also repel people from giving the book a go. I would like to start this review by highlighting that this book is a gothic horror. Written in the late 19th century it has with stood the test of time because it is a Romantic book (with a capital R). It is a ... Read review

Advantages: Full of passion expressed through the language and the plot
Disadvantages: Full of sadness and often overwhelming

Wuthering Heights is a literary masterpiece written by a young Yorkshire lass with an understanding far greater than her years. Critics have still not had enough of analysing the text, and readers are still gripped by the sheer readability of the novel. I first read this novel when I was fourteen, and could not put it down. This shows that the language can be tackled at a young age, if the reader is interested and persistent. Years later, I read ... Read review

Advantages: Gripping and needs to be many times
Disadvantages: Narrative maybe confusing

Wuthering Heights is great because it sustains you through all the different periods of your life. As a child it is a good ghost story, as an adolescent a supreme love story, as a adult, a complex study of family relationships. Much has been said about the love story in this novel, so I won't add to that. People often take "Jane Eyre" to be more a feminist novel than WH because of Heathcliffe. Jane conqures Rochester who is, although a Byronic ... Read review

Advantages: original storyline and characters.
Disadvantages: takes a while to get into.

Apparently Wuthering Heights is not to everyone's taste. I think that's because of T.V's (and. yes. America's) interpretation of it is a love story. That's only part of it. WH is the family history of the Earnshaws, and a little later, the Lintons. Thier lives become intertwined by love, marriage (and in this novel the two ARE different)violence and death. The love element is between Catherine and Heathcliff, (I bet those names sound familiar) ... Read review

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Most of you have probably read this book, or can read the other opinions for the plot. My favourite character is Catherine Earnshaw. Bronte conveys her as a petulant, spoilt and melodramatic. The very first time we meat her, she 'spits' at Heathcliff. Upset at her father for losing the whip he was going to bring for her from Liverpool. Her fondness for Heathcliff leads to the whole tragedy, and her own death. She gets on with Heathcliff, but ... Read review