Wuthering Heights

 Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights is the wild, passionate story of intense and almost demonic love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff, a foundling adopted by Catherine's father. After Mr Earnshaw's death, Heathcliff is bullied and humiliated by Catherine's brother Hindley, and wrongly believing that his love for Catherine is not reciprocated leaves Wuthering Heights, only to return years later as a wealthy and a polished man. He proceeds to exact a terrible revenge for his former miseries.

The action of the story is chaotic and unremittingly violent, but the accomplished handling of a complex structure, the evocative descriptions of the lonely moorland setting and the poetic granduer of vision combine to make this unique novel a masterpiece of English literature.

Wuthering Heights is a strange and unusual book, the amount of different relationships of love and hate differents the book from others and makes it unique. The book is intruiging to read as it's descriptions encourage vivid imagery and language connotes many feelings that the reader is able to sympathies and empathies with. However in order to empathsizes or symapthsizes with many of the characters, the reader is forced to place themselves in the characters position allowing them to recieve a deeper understanding of the authors aims for writing the book. Overall, although this book used complex language due to the date it was written (1847) which made it considerably harder to read, it was a very enjoyable and interesting read.

Rating - ***** - 5 stars