Wuthering Heights Illustrated by Emily Brontë
In Wuthering Heights, a young girl named Catherine Earnshaw falls in love with an orphan lad named Heathcliff. He grows obsessed with avenging himself after she chooses a boy from a better home and rejects him in favour of him. Heathcliff turns life at Wuthering Heights into a living nightmare in an effort to win her back and ruin those who he believes are to blame for his failure. This story of ghosts, passion, and avarice continues to stand alone in its portrayal of the evil side of love.
Wuthering Heights Illustrated by Emily Brontë
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The tumultuous, heartbreaking love between Cathy and Heathcliff is the subject of the book’s popularity. Even if it is love, it is a very egotistical love, which seems to be a contradiction in itself. This is a tale of toxic obsession, not a love story. The book’s imaginative language use and excellent atmospheric elements are in my opinion its best saving graces, but for a reader like me, these qualities were never going to be enough to get beyond its repulsive characters. Stories within stories within stories make up WUTHERING HEIGHTS. This layering produces a number of intriguing effects, including the ability to sometimes feel removed from the story, space for reflection about the past, and the development of suspense.
While Nelly’s enthusiasm is more akin to furious hatred for her employers, Ellen Dean, who narrates most of the story, seems to be an especially unreliable narrator. Ellen’s portrayal as a servant gives the impression that she is sour, impertinent, and even malicious; as such, she is neither a sympathetic nor a very reliable narrator. But she’s not the only one. It’s crucial to keep in mind that the book’s multiple narrators all have very strong prejudices as you read through the second and third-person tales of Cathy and Heathcliff’s life. It is simple to overlook the fact that the story’s mystery is further complicated by the partiality of its narrators.
Violence is prevalent throughout this work, not only subtly or obliquely, but also constantly and casually apparent. We feel as though we have entered a madhouse filled with the most ferocious hate as well as the most ferocious love as we are first exposed to Wuthering Heights during Cathy and Heathcliff’s formative years. At times, it can feel utterly overpowering.
The epitome of a lady who wants to have her cake and eat it too is Cathy. She ties herself to the affluent and aristocratic Edgar Linton despite her public declarations of her love for Heathcliff, sloppily claiming that she is doing so in part to support Heathcliff’s ascent in society. She obviously wants exclusive access to Heathcliff as well. This, together with her other disgusting traits, gives her the appearance of being egotistical, vindictive, and greedy. She adores being the centre of a love triangle, either softly or not so quietly.
Cathy and Heathcliffe are the two main characters. Cathy picks a safer option, a man of money, a gentleman who will provide a good home, a social status, and financial prosperity. Despite being inseparable as youngsters and young adults, they do not discover an everlasting life with each other. What happens next is a string of catastrophic events that the major protagonists will carry with them to their graves.
Not only was Emily Bronte’s book controversial at the time because of its subject matter, but also because Miss Bronte was a woman and the daughter of a parson. My imagination ponders the additional pearls that may have emerged if Emily Bronte hadn’t passed away. Miss Bronte passed away shortly after finishing this novel.
