Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights (Modern Critical Interpretations)

By Harold Bloom

Book Overview

Bloom's Reviews are a acclaimed advancement to the standard chapter-by-chapter plot summaries provided by most study guides. Each Review saves a student time by presenting the latest research, from... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0877547327
• ISBN13: 9780877547327
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

My Review of Wuthering Heights

Cathy's dad brings home a Heathcliff, an orphin he found in the streets one day and lets him live with the family. A couple of months later Cathy's father dies and her brother makes him the family servant. Cathy and Heathcliff are secretly in love but it would never work out. Cathy moves away and gets married and comes back home and visits. She realizes her love for Heathcliff and things start getting intereasting. I liked the book. I liked the book because it was very romantic. The plot had interesting twists and turns but I still was satisfied with the ending.

My Review of Wuthering Heights

When Cathy's father brings home a dirty orphan, she doesn't know what to think. She comes to know the boy and befriends him, while her brother treats him badly. A couple months later, Cathy's father dies, and her brother is left head of the house. He makes Heathcliff, the boy who was taken in, a servant. As they get older Cathy and Heathcliff fall in love. Until one day, Cathy goes away and doesn't come back for a while. When she finally comes back to visit, she has fallen in love with Edgar Linton, a rich, upperclass man. This makes Heathcliff extremely jealous. When Cathy is lying on her deathbed, she tells Heathcliff she loves him, and when she dies Heathcliff tells her to haunt him and never leave him. This story is a great tale of undying love and the extents people will go for the one they love. The story had many interesting twists, but the ending left me satisfied.

My Review of Wuthering Heights

Cathy's dad brings home a Heathcliff, an orphin he found in the streets one day and lets him live with the family. A couple of months later Cathy's father dies and her brother makes him the family servant. Cathy and Heathcliff are secretly in love but it would never work out. Cathy moves away and gets married and comes back home and visits. She realizes her love for Heathcliff and things start getting interesting. I liked the book. I liked the book because it was very romantic. The plot had interesting twists and turns but I still was satisfied with the ending.

it's good.

hey well this book is obviously for those who have matured enough to experience true love or at least understand the power of it. if you can't appreciate this book, you are either a high schooler forced to read it by your english teacher or a person who has not found THE ONE. once your situation changes, re-read this. it's worth it.

Bad weather & cruel lovers have never looked so attractive

Don't believe the reviews posted by semi-literate highschool children. Yes, the book can be difficult to get into, and the narrative structure demands a reader's full attention -- skim a few pages, and you're likely to get lost in confusion . But the initial effort is well worth it. This is the mama of all soap operas, and more. Catherine is the embodiment of every woman's wild side and Heathcliff is the gypsy devil that lurks in every man. These characters are us, before we evolved and became civilized... at least on the outside.Let me set the scene for you:Out in the wild English countryside in the late 1700's, two families of what was then called "the landed gentry" live a few miles from eachother. Up on the windswept bluffs is the crumbling house called Wuthering Heights; down in the sheltered valley is the well-kept Thrushcross Grange. The residents of the Heights are as tempestuous as their surroundings: Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw live there with their two children, bad-tempered Hindley and wild young Catherine. Raised alongside the Earnshaw children is the interloper, Heathcliff, an orphan Gypsy boy that Mr. Earnshaw adopts out of kindness and quickly comes to favor above his own kids. Heathcliff and Catherine are the best of friends and run wild together on the moors, but Hindley is consumed by jealousy and hatred of the other boy, and when his parents die Hindley uses his new authority to turn Heathcliff into a lowly servant-boy. Heathcliff's obsessive devotion to Catherine is matched only by his seething hatred of her brother, on whom he vows vengeance.Meanwhile, down at the Grange, life is much more sedate. There, the prim and spoiled (but very handsome) children of Mr. and Mrs. Linton live in luxury amid feather pillows and toy poodles and such. Eventually, as you might expect, young fair-haired Edgar Linton becomes smitten with his spirited neighbor Catherine. She falls for his curly locks and good manners, but is still held by her fierce attachment to the glowering, dark Heathcliff -- who, she realizes, has a heart as passionate and unforgiving as her own.A savage storm, a disappearance, and a marriage ensue. Everything is settled, and old heartaches and jealousies are clearly a thing of the past. But one night, an unexpected caller comes to see Mistress Catherine -- and suddenly the past is resurrected, and destiny is set in motion...