Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Book Review Wuthering Heights

A classic romantic novel in which an adopted boy falls in love with his step sister, the never ending love in which they share was then interrupted by the choice she made later on in her life. Catherine and Heathcliff the main characters, were never afraid to express and show their love until she decided to abandon Heathcliff comes the inevitable future of disaster, resulting both Heathcliff and Catherine’s death. The novel is considered one of the best novel’s from the 1800s written by Emily Bronte, one of the famous Bronte sisters. Guiding readers through the feeling and hatred of those who mistreated Heathcliff, bearing the pain and hate for so long was finally then unleashed upon Catherine to seek revenge for what she had done to him.
Not completely understanding the situation, both characters remain a love spot for each other but no longer expressing it. As readers may come to realize that Heathcliff is not such a bad person after all instead a person who is unable to go on bearing the pain that he had kept in all those years, the day he had entered Wuthering Heights he was considered family until the death of the adoptive father. Mistreated from then on, he became the house servant.
As time passes he now has possession of Wuthering Heights and the love of his life had passed giving birth, the loneliness he now carries haunts him and for what he had done, expressing his anger towards Catherine’s daughter whom reminds him of the past because of her spinning image of her mother. Praying one day Catherine’s ghost will seek revenge; Heathcliff waited eighteen years until she finally came. Now they are able to spend an eternity together happily.

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