Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Book review #1: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights is a very confusing book because of it's language usage, but it's an entertaining book to read. If you enjoy tragic romance stories then this is your book! The theme of this story would be that love never dies. the major characters of this story would be Heathcliff and Catherine. Heathcliff was an orphan brought to be a servant in the house of Earnshaw who will eventually fall in love with Catherine. Catherine is the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw who falls madly in love with Heathcliff. Some quotes that I found to be important was when Catherine began to think about her and Heathcliff getting married one day, she says, "It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than i am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and Edgar's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire." This quote means that her and Heathcliff seem to understand each other more than she and Edgar do. Another quote would be, "That, however, which you may suppose the most potent to arrest my imagination, is actually the least, for what is not connected with her to me? and what does not recall her? I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped on the flags! In every cloud, in every tree -- filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day, I am surrounded by her image! The most ordinary faces of men and women --my own features-- mock me with a resemblance. The entire world is a dreadful collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that i have lost her!"

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