Wuthering Heights written by Emily Bronte, was a novel filled
with many emotions and activity. Her characters represent an on going
conflict between love and hate. Upon the publication of the book
articles and reviews were written regarding Brontes novel. Following her
death some of these were recovered such as the following
written January 15 1848: ' In Wuthering Heights the reader is
shocked, disgusted, almost sickened by details of cruelty, inhumanity
and the most diabolical hate and vengeance, and anon come passages of
powerful testimony to the supreme power of love-even over demons in
the human form. The women in the book are of a strange fiendish-angelic
nature tantalizing and terrible, and the men are indescribable out of
the book itself. ' The critic fills my complete expectations for
what a review of this book should be. It is, in a sense, a blending
of elements that make the book what it is.
Title page of original edition of Wuthering Height...
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English: Emily Brontë's novel Wutherng Heights ca...Both atmosphere and characters
are filled with a mystery that keeps the reader drawn to the book much
as some are addicted to viewing day time soap operas.
One of the main elements of the story that is mentioned in
the review is cruelty. Cruelty has helped form some of the
characters to be what they are. When a young Heathcliff is brought into
the Earnshaw family, he is instantly disliked by Hindley Earnshaw. Hindley
hates Heathcliff for intruding onto his family. He loses his fathers love
and sets out to destroy Heathcliff. Within Catherine's diary was written:
' I wish my father were back again. Hindley is a detestable substitute-his
conduct to Heathcliff is atrocious. ' (25) Hindleys hate toward Heathcliff is so
deeply felt, that upon the news of Hindley receiving a son, Heathcliff
sets out to torment the child as part of...