Wuthering Heights

A literary classic of the late Emily Bronte. Her one and only novel remains a timeless piece set in the isolated north of England. The cool and desolate lands of Northern England embody the novel's morose and dark tale of love and anguish. The character development is what makes the novel such an interesting read. How the characters evolve and the turning points which make their personalities change over time enables the reader to feel as though they are watching the lives' of the characters from a bird's-eye view.

Heathcliff, the main and most morose of the characters, attempts to get revenge of a lost love. His plot backfires and he ends up losing his one true love. From that day forward, he inflicts cruelty upon others around him to die a lonely and complicated man. The one good dead that he does try to do, ends up not working out, so he in turn, gives up right away. Successfully turning everyone on him, his brooding and dark persona is nucleus of the novel.

Catherine is Heathcliff's cousin and 'true love'. She dies after saying goodbye to Heathcliff and saying that she does hope that he is haunted by her. Her personality is bi-polar and 'saucy' which peaks the reader's interest.

Linton and Catherine are the children who continue the novel and the streak of the dark and sad tale. Linton ends up dying young leaving Catherine with no one to love.

In all, I think it would be fair to infer that Emily Bronte (writer) was not a happy lady. Her thoughts of unhappiness are apparent and reflected in the novel. It was said that she was a quiet woman and she died young from tuberculosis at the age of 29. Perhaps, one could conclude that each character in her novel had a small piece of her; morose and destined to die unhappy and alone.

Ciar xo