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Review of Wuthering Heights Novel
Whutering heights is a novel written by Emily Bronte between October 1845 until June
1846, and published in 1847. This novel is the first and the only one novel published by Bronte
when she was 29 years. A year later on the 30th she died. she made it in the Victorian era, where
marriage with a difference in social status was a difficult thing to accept. Whutering Heights is
the name of the house occupied by the characters. Bronte describes this story as a fruit of
revenge and cruelty. This story has a gothic genre in which the author describes the gloomy
atmosphere in it. The atmosphere is tense, the sky is gray, And creepy old buildings. Almost
there is no atmosphere that makes readers happy when reading. This novel is a story that tells
about, cruelty, revenge and complicated love.
In the late winter months of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a manor house called
Thrushcross Grange in the isolated moor country of England. Here, he meets his dour landlord,
Heathcliff, a wealthy man who lives in the ancient manor of Wuthering Heights, four miles away
from the Grange. One day, Mr. Earnshaw goes to Liverpool and returns home with an orphan
boy whom he will raise with his own children. At first, the Earnshaw children—a boy named
Hindley and his younger sister Catherine—detest the dark-skinned Heathcliff. But Catherine
quickly comes to love him, and the two soon grow inseparable, spending their days playing on
the moors. After his wife’s death, Mr. Earnshaw grows to prefer Heathcliff to his own son, and
when Hindley continues his cruelty to Heathcliff, Mr. Earnshaw sends Hindley away to college,
keeping Heathcliff nearby. One night they wander to Thrushcross Grange, hoping to tease Edgar
and Isabella Linton, the cowardly, snobbish children who live there. Eventually, Catherine’s
desire for social advancement prompts her to become engaged to Edgar Linton, despite her
overpowering love for Heathcliff. Heathcliff runs away from Wuthering Heights, staying away
for three years, and returning shortly after Catherine and Edgar’s marriage. Heathcliff becomes
more and more obsessed with the memory of the elder Catherine, to the extent that he begins
speaking to her ghost. Everything he sees reminds him of her. After hearing the end of the story,
Lockwood goes to visit the graves of Catherine and Heathcliff.
The main character in this story is named Heathcliff. He is a kind hearted man. But the
situation changes his behavior to be an arrogant, mysterious and spiteful person. The situation is
when Hindley treats a bad things to him. Because Hindley feels jealous when he sees his father
treat Heathcliff well. Beside that, Heathcliff fall in love with Hindley’s sister named Catherine.
He always fights for love. Catherine is beautiful woman, she also has the same behavior with
Heathcliff, and she loves him too. In Wuthering Heights also has a servant as a third peson
named Ellen Dean. She knows all of the story of this place. Mr Lockwood as a subtitute reader
from Ellen Dean, rather pompous. Setting of this novel take place in Wuthering Heigths and
Trushcross Grange. The author uses mixed forward and backward plot. The reader will be
confused by the plot and its so complicated.
Reading this novel is not easy, its gloomy and convoluted content makes it difficult for
readers to read it, the flow of the novel also needs to concentrate on reading it. Apart from all
that this novel is a good and memorable novel, an unexpected plot and indeed a very simple and
general theme. But the story is conveyed through prominent characters in this story. This novel
can also make parents aware of the impact received due to different parenting patterns
(affection).
This story is very recommended for adult because in each scene requires more
understanding and has controversial story. The reader will be confused and feel so tired with the
story, but it also make them curious to read until the end. Bronte describes love with a different
perspective. She makes the romance very hard to get and full of jealousy.
