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Maartje van GijsselL5AB – Staring College
Book report 1 – Wuthering Heights
A short summary (unknown, 2019, p. 1)
As this story by Emily Brontë begins, the reader encounters Lockwood. He is
the new tenant at Heathcliff. Lockwood becomes curious about the happenings
at Wuthering Heights. As a result, he makes inquiries from a servant called
Nelly Dean. From the story narrated, Lockwood wants to keep a record.
The original owner of Wuthering Heights brought an orphan, Heathcliff, to be
part of his family. The boy is to be catered for together with Mr. Earnshaw’s
children. Mr. Earnshaw already has a son, Hindley and a daughter, Catherine.
While Catherine is fond of Heathcliff, Hindley does not like him. The hate is
because Mr. Earnshaw loves Heathcliff more than Hindley. When Mr. Earnshaw
dies, Hindley tries everything possible to destroy Heathcliff.
On the opposite compound, Thrushcross Grange, Edgar Linton falls in love with
Catherine. Meanwhile, Heathcliff’s relationship with Catherine is destroyed.
Heathcliff feels like he is not part of the family. Heathcliff leaves Wuthering
Heights for three years. Finally, Catherine and Edgar get married. They give
birth to a daughter called Cathy. Catherine later dies. On the other hand,
Hindley gives birth to a son called Hareton.
When Heathcliff comes back, he vows to pay back those who were bad to him.
His ultimate goal is to own Thrushcross Grange and Wuthering Heights. He
begins his revenge mission by targeting Hindley, who is now an alcoholic.
Heathcliff lends Hindley money. With time, the debt increases to a level where
Hindley cannot pay. That was Heathcliff’s target from the start. When Hindley
dies, Heathcliff takes over the ownership of Wuthering Heights as a way to
repay himself the debt. The next move is to marry Isabella Linton, Edgar’s
sister. The marriage was to put him in a better position to inherit Thrushcross
Grange. He treats Isabella badly. At the same time, he still loves Catherine and
wants her spirit to be with him forever. Isabella escapes to London where she
gives birth to a boy she names Linton.
When Cathy comes to age, she meets Linton. They play together and later fall
in love. Heathcliff forces them to get married. By this time, Heathcliff has
control of both ranches. Cathy is made a servant at Wuthering Heights by
Heathcliff. Thrushcross Grange is rented to Lockwood. That is how he found
himself there. After that, Heathcliff dies, and his spirit is believed to join that of
Catherine.
, Maartje van Gijssel
L5AB – Staring College
A review (ellen, 2008, p. 1)
“I never expected this book to be as flagrantly, unforgivably bad as it was.
To start, Bronte's technical choice of narrating the story of the primary
characters by having the housekeeper explain everything to a tenant 20 years
after it happened completely kills suspense and intimacy. The most I can say is
that to some extent this functions as a device to help shroud the story and
motives from the reader. But really, at the time literary technique hadn't quite
always gotten around to accepting that omnipotent 3rd person narrators are
allowed, so you'd have to have a multiperspective story told by an omnipotent
3rd person narrator who was actually a character in the story (e.g. the
housekeeper Ellen). The layers of perspective make it annoying and sometimes
impossible to figure out who is telling what bit of story; and moreover, because
so much is related as two characters explaining things between themselves, the
result is that we rarely see any action, and instead have the entire book
explained in Socratic, pedantic exposition.
The sense of place is poorly rendered and almost entirely missing. Great, the
moor is grey.
But ultimately, the most damning thing is that the characters are a bunch of
immatures, insufferable, narcissistic assholes with very little self-respect. This
isn't a story of great love and passion. It's the story of how child abuse
perpetuates itself through the generations. The characters are either
emotionally abused as children or, as in the case of Cathy I, they're spoiled and
overindulged with no discipline and can't muster the restraint and self-respect
to ditch abusive relationships. I kept waiting for any of the characters to be
remotely worth my time, but I found no respite from the brutish abuse of the
horribly twisted Heathcliff or from the simpering idiocy of Cathy I and II. Ugh.
Not only are there no transformations or growth, but the characters aren't
even that likable to begin with. How this book got to be a classic is beyond me.”
My opinion on the review
When I first started reading this book, I did not expect to find it as amazing as I
thought it would be. A great love story with vengeance and violence, characters
that seem difficult to understand but are, in a way, relatable. With this entire
review, I do not agree. Especially with this one sentence: “The sense of place is
poorly rendered and almost entirely missing. Great, the moor is grey”. In my
opinion, the moor itself, or even nature itself, plays a character in this epic love
story. It is almost personified, it’s just always there, making the book more
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