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We ask that you report content that you in good faith believe violates the above rules by clicking the Flag link next to the offending comment or by filling out this form. Oh Cathy! It was the moors, the sort of bleak desolate nature of this place which was just on the periphery of Leeds.
I was growing up in Leeds, a place where if you saw a blade of grass, you immediately ran out and kicked a football on it. But as I was getting older, I was aware that right on the edge of Leeds, there was this wild strange place that, as an urban kid, meant nothing to me.
That was the prism through which I looked at Wuthering Heights , and I had no fascination with the origins of Heathcliff or the romance at the center of it. It was just these brooding descriptions of this place that was slightly out of reach to me.
Why did he become so malevolent? Why did he become so cruel? Why was he so angry? Why was he so prey to these spasms of bitterness? And so I was as much fascinated with what kind of sensibility had written this as I was with what was in the book. I never know what to think of it. I have just read over Wuthering Heights , and, for the first time, have obtained a clear glimpse of what are termed and, perhaps, really are its faults; have gained a definite notion of how it appears to other people — to strangers who knew nothing of the author; who are unacquainted with the locality where the scenes of the story are laid; to whom the inhabitants, the customs, the natural characteristics of the outlying hills and hamlets in the West Riding of Yorkshire are things alien and unfamiliar.
To all such Wuthering Heights must appear a rude and strange production. The wild moors of the North of England can for them have no interest: the language, the manners, the very dwellings and household customs of the scattered inhabitants of those districts must be to such readers in a great measure unintelligible, and—where intelligible—repulsive.
With regard to the rusticity of Wuthering Heights , I admit the charge, for I feel the quality. It is rustic all through. It is moorish, and wild, and knotty as a root of heath. Nor was it natural that it should be otherwise; the author being herself a native and nursling of the moors. Doubtless, had her lot been cast in a town, her writings, if she had written at all, would have possessed another character. Even had chance or taste led her to choose a similar subject, she would have treated it otherwise.
Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself.
Wuthering Heights was hewn in a wild workshop, with simple tools, out of homely materials. The statuary found a granite block on a solitary moor; gazing thereon, he saw how from the crag might be elicited a head, savage, swart, sinister; a form moulded with at least one element of grandeur—power.
He wrought with a rude chisel, and from no model but the vision of his meditations. Wuthering Heights is told so brilliantly.
Heart of Darkness also blew me away when I first read it. That, Wuthering Heights , and Hemingway showed me what literature could be; I could do whatever I wanted!
Heathcliff embodies the idea of acting on pure id. I read Wuthering Heights when I was sixteen and had just left home. Why is Lockwood initially interested in Cathy Linton? Why does Isabella Linton leave Heathcliff? How do Cathy and Linton get to know each other? Summary Key Facts. It was even voted the greatest love story of all time. But the book is closer to a gothic novel than a romance. For one thing, the love story between Heathcliff and Cathy only takes up half the book.
In addition, Heathcliff is not a romantic hero, but an obsessive abuser. His relationship with Cathy is sometimes disturbing—for example, he breaks the side of her coffin so that, when he dies, they can decompose together.
Clearly, this guy has issues. Wuthering Heights shocked Victorian critics with its violence, passionate characters, and amoral plot. While some reviewers admired its creativity, others downright hated it.
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