Book Review: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte - Comments Page 2

Author: BonniePublished: May 23, 2006 at 4:44 am 45 comments

This classic is an anti-romance, exactly the opposite of what I had been expecting.

I was surprised by how much I liked Wuthering Heights because I didn't agree with some of the assumptions, felt lost in the class-related themes, and didn't especially like any of the characters. But something about this class still had me reading compulsively.…
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  • 26 - shivani

    Jun 23, 2008 at 2:49 am

    I READ THIS BOOK WHEN I WAS 14, WHEN WE HAD TO WRITE A BOOK REVIEW OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS. IT WAS A PART OF OUR PROJECT FOR OUR SUMMER VACATIONS. IT IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE NOVELS AND I REALLY WISH IT WAS NOT EMILY'S FIRST AND LAST NOVEL.I WILL LOVE TO SEE A MOVIE MADE ON THIS BOOK

  • 27 - melina

    Aug 26, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    shivani: there already is aaaand u can watch the whole movie it at youtube! :)

  • 28 - Anonymous

    Nov 06, 2008 at 6:51 pm

    You have a problem with Johnny Depp? huh? He is the most AWESOME actor in the world. Skills others tend to lack are abundant in him.

  • 29 - lost

    May 19, 2009 at 1:07 am

    u guys really mixed me is it nice or not and is the ending something i'll appreciate? or will the book bug me?? AAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!

  • 30 - Raugie

    May 31, 2009 at 5:58 pm

    Bronte did an excellent job of working out the plot before she had to. Heathcliff's revenge, and how comprehensive it was, was absolutely brilliant. Very sad, though, all the lives that could be ruined by poorly made choices. Fantastically written... it's kind of sad Bronte didn't get to see how greatly loved it would be...

  • 31 - Raugie

    May 31, 2009 at 5:59 pm

    Lost: don't be so concerned about the ending. I don't think it'll bug you. Finish the book!

  • 32 - Dalshad

    Aug 13, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    Of course Wuthering Heights is very rich op psychological, social .....issues. Any way I think this is one of the most fantastic novel that i have ever read and the most interesting thing is how a writer like that little girle (EMILY) can creat this. I am kurd and my i was English literature student and according to all what i have already read this is the most one which affected me, but is this novel while reading is a dream or a nghtmare.

  • 33 - Stevie Martin

    Sep 15, 2009 at 2:37 am

    I am so in love with this novel! I am reading it on my third way round, I love the way Emily decribes/puts across Catherines and Heathcliffs love for each other and how it makes you think that there might actually be ghosts! Because you believe that they belong together, I hope to do this novel at GCSE-I think I would use your review for help.
    I don't believe that the characters are inhuman either- I believe thay are what any person is when they have gone throught- what the characters went throught, for instance-Heathcliff only has Cathy! Thats what he lives for, when Emiy Bronte says(Catherine says) "I am Heathcliff" it shows so many of the feelings in one sentance.

  • 34 - Stevie Martin

    Sep 15, 2009 at 2:38 am

    I am 14 at the minute by the way ^

  • 35 - umesh prasad singh

    Dec 01, 2009 at 6:10 am

    wuthering heights is a text of evolution and subjective analytical aspectology of oneness. emily bronte in this novel marks the sense of creative affirmations.

  • 36 - Stephanie

    Jan 12, 2010 at 8:24 pm

    goddamn absolutely right. i love this book.

  • 37 - hannah

    Mar 16, 2010 at 4:53 pm

    good review and excellent points made. i totally liked your opinion of it and it made me rethink book

  • 38 - Sophie

    Dec 15, 2010 at 7:51 pm

    I can't understand a thing this book is about. I think i have it and then i get all mixed up and confused. I think that Emily Bronte does have a lot of talent in writng a meaningful sophisticated book but I think I would enjoy this book so much more if I knew what the words mean and what in the world was going on. Emily's style is a little hard to read. She uses complicated words and an old english style of writing which makes it hard for me to enjoy the book but I guess some people may really like Wuthering Heights because it is a challenging book. I am in seventh grade and in a Literature circle for this book and I am not done with the book.

  • 39 - lujy

    Dec 17, 2010 at 8:29 am

    in the age of uncontrollable passion and no passion from any one to heathcliff except cathrien who is the same character the wild , cruel uncontrollable girl so that brings unusual and uncontrollable love

  • 40 - Stephen

    Mar 17, 2011 at 1:17 am

    I am a high school student doing WH as a prescribed text.

    It is a Romantic period novel. Note how Joanne, the 13th comment, said that gothicism is rare in these times? Indeed it is quite the opposite, WH is a prime example. Even though it is written towards the end of the Romantic period, and into the Victorian period, it still is essentially Romantic (not a love term), and Gothicism was a tenet in many Romantic texts. Romanticism seems to clash with Neoclassical ideas. Heathcliff is seen to be Romantic, with his brute feelings, where Edgar contrasts, being quite shallow and civilized. The same can be said about Wuthering Heights, where the ferocity of nature and the passionate feelings are felt, to Thrushcross Grange, which is Classical, and lacking in real feeling.

    Nelly is quite comical, and is very self-centred. She tries to please everyone to be in the good books, shall we say.

    The Moors can be said to be both gothic, because of their darkness and mystery, and pantheist, because of their awe. Catherine, Cathy and Isabella are all entrapped at one stage of the novel, a gothic notion.

    I do agree it is hard to analyze this novel because of the great time difference, and social normalities.

  • 41 - Sukriti Gupta

    Jun 23, 2011 at 3:49 am

    somehow...almost all the bronte books have the main male lead as a sullen, rough kind of man..be it Mr. Rochester from jane eyre or heathcliff...she uses this device of 'ruthlessness' in each of her novel....but i really do appreciate the wave of feminism she got along with her....hats off to her :D

  • 42 - YourWelcome

    Oct 04, 2011 at 10:30 am

    This book should burn.

  • 43 - Mckaylad

    May 08, 2012 at 8:02 am

    I read this book for an English class and even I could connect to the plot so many years later . In the end I enjoyed it. If you read into it you may find that in the book life span is equivent to type of life. That is just what I read deeper into .

  • 44 - moin imam

    Aug 16, 2012 at 5:23 pm

    its beautiful book....this novel is first love story novel n it was a really sucks...........but emily was billian thoght

  • 45 - Kelli

    Oct 14, 2012 at 1:52 pm

    I read this classic, thinking that it was a romance novel. Just five chapters into the book, I could tell that this was going to be much more than a mere love story. It was a story full of depression, anger, death, sorrow, revenge, and human weakness. I learned a lot, and decided that it is a good read. However, it is a very difficult book to get through.

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