Book Review : Wuthering Heights : A Classic Masterpiece of Artistic Vision
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
Book Name- Wuthering Heights
Author-Emily Brontë
Published- December 1847
Genre-Tragedy, Dark Romance, Gothic
Country-United Kingdom
Wuthering Heights is an 1847 Dark Romance novel written By Emily Brontë. The novel is exceptional and is considered one of the best romance novels of all time. Some characters are likeable and the others are to fall in love with.The novel would make you dive into this fictional world created by the author.
About The Author
Emily Brontë is a classic literate author who is well known for her only novel, Wuthering Heights. While the novel received harsh feedback when it was first published,it is now highly regarded by readers all over the world.She was also perhaps the greatest of the three Brontë sisters.
Brontë’s work on Wuthering Heights cannot be exactly dated but it is said that Brontë spent a lot of time writing and completing this dark,intense and savage novel. The content and plot is clearly distinguished from other poetic and artistic presentations of that time.Emily diverges from the norms and writes something out of the events of her own life. Every character in the novel is so-well articulated that it is difficult to pick a favourite.
About the Novel
The novel fills you in with so many emotions and all at once that for a minute after you complete the novel, you would immediately feel started to realise what is it that you just read and experienced. The novel is something you haven't read before and it may be too intense for some but the ride is worth the time spent on it.
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“Be with me always—take any form—drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!”
The novel tells the destructive love and passion of Heathcliff for Catherine. Heathcliff was adopted by Catherine’s dad and was bullied by Catherine’s brother and maybe this is why the novel is about him.The novel is chaotic,beautiful and exquisite in its wickedness. While the characters take extreme words and actions, one cannot help but find redemption for each of them.
The novel is a perfect depiction of what dark love is and how it destroys you but still makes you feel on top of the world and on the bottom.You can hate Heathcliff for all the evils that he does but you also sympathise with him for all the torment he had been subjected to. You cannot love and hate but you do when it comes to his character.
The novel leaves you so impressed that you would kill it to have a love story like theirs.
There is no middle ground to the novel, you either worship it or utterly hate it.Your literature’s collective unconscious is entirely different and would break expectations when you read this masterpiece. The characters are so irrational, yet so pulling and dangerous.
The frame story technique is used to narrate the whole story to the readers, and this makes the entire experience all the more better.
“I’m tired of being enclosed here. I’m wearying to escape into that glorious world, and to be always there: not seeing it dimly through tears, and yearning for it through the walls of an aching heart: but really with it, and in it.”
Passion, Desire and love are the few words that pop up in my mind when somebody mentions this book. It's like you are listening to an almost sad song that is arousing a lot of feelings in your heart but you still listen to it because you know its pulling you.
I love the overall plot and it is one amazing ride. Although, throughout the novel I only felt how things would be different if Catherine had survived and how important it is to talk about your love and express it. Love is something that either protects you or completely destroys all the good within you and what makes the entire thing worse is that you have no control over it no matter how much you try.
“My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”
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