Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte SPOILERS

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Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte SPOILERS

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Wuthering Heights is a tragic love story steeped in gothic elements. Heathcliff is a tragic character who has only loved one person all his life, Catherine. Catherine is a spoiled, cruel young woman. They grow up together after Catherine's father brings Heathcliff home. Heathcliff has not family and is shunned by the rest of the family except for Mr. Earnshaw and Catherine.
Their love story is as twisted as it is cruel. Catherine and Heathcliff love one another above anyone else, but Catherine marries another when she deems Heathcliff below her. She only marries to help Heathcliff advance his station in life, but Heathcliff doesn't know this. She laments that it would degrade her to marry him, but in the next breath claims to be the same as Heathcliff: "I am Heathcliff."
After Catherine dies in childbirth as a complication of her most likely self-induced illness, Heathcliff vows to get vengenance. He begs Cathy's ghost to haunt him. The ghostly English Moors provide an eerie and symbolic meaning to tale. Heathcliff and Cathy cannot even bear to be separated in death.
The tragical love story ends and you are left to wonder if you pitied the characters, loved them, or hated them. Emily Bronte is a masterful gothic author with the tenacity to ensnare a captive audience and keep them in conflict with themselves the entire novel.
Wuthering Heights is an absolutely phenomenal read and one cannot help but pick it up again and again to reveal in the miserable lives of these compelling characters even as readers are chilled to the bone by the harsh realities that await them.
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