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02-13-2020, 09:51 PM
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Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
I love Wuthering Heights so much, I decided to make a board about it.
This book was published in 1847. It's a dramatic romance written by Emily Bronte and have some gothic fiction elements (which I'm particularly fond of).
It starts with a young men visiting a gentleman named Heathcliff (<3).
That men have a vision/nightmare of a ghost named Catherine begging to enter through the window. When he tells Heathcliff about his vision, he tells the young men his story...
In the beggining, a man named Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights adopts Heathcliff, a homeless boy, that starts living with Earnshaw and his children Catherine and Hindley. Catherine becomes close to Heathcliff, but Hindley is jealous of him. He thinks his father loves Heathcliff more than himself and, when Mr. Earnshaw dies, he turns Heathcliff into his servant. For other side, Catherine and Heathcliff love each other, but since he is now a servant with no social status, she tries to ignore her feelings.
Some years passes by, lots of things happens, Heathcliff have been mistreated for all that time and Catherine starts a relationship with a man named Edgar, who loves her deeply. When Catherine tells an servant that Edgar proposed marriage, she doesn't know that Heathcliff is listening what she says, and she tells:
[...] I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; [...]
Since Heathcliff loves her so much, he cannot handle what he listened and runs away from Wuthering Heights. But what he doesn't listen what she says after that:
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 Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.'
Some years passes by and Heathcliff comes back to Wuthering Heights as a wealthy man. He is now cold, aggressive and wants to do his vendetta.
It's hard to talk about this book without giving a spoiler, since there are many things going on.
The fact is that Wuthering Heights is a classic, had a great influence in pop culture and it's a book I'll always recommend!
Have you ever read it? :$
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Wuthering Heights (1939 film)
I love Wuthering Heights so much, I decided to make a board about it.
This book was published in 1847. It's a dramatic romance written by Emily Bronte and have some gothic fiction elements (which I'm particularly fond of).
It starts with a young men visiting a gentleman named Heathcliff (<3).
That men have a vision/nightmare of a ghost named Catherine begging to enter through the window. When he tells Heathcliff about his vision, he tells the young men his story...
In the beggining, a man named Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights adopts Heathcliff, a homeless boy, that starts living with Earnshaw and his children Catherine and Hindley. Catherine becomes close to Heathcliff, but Hindley is jealous of him. He thinks his father loves Heathcliff more than himself and, when Mr. Earnshaw dies, he turns Heathcliff into his servant. For other side, Catherine and Heathcliff love each other, but since he is now a servant with no social status, she tries to ignore her feelings.
Some years passes by, lots of things happens, Heathcliff have been mistreated for all that time and Catherine starts a relationship with a man named Edgar, who loves her deeply. When Catherine tells an servant that Edgar proposed marriage, she doesn't know that Heathcliff is listening what she says, and she tells:
[...] I've no more business to marry Edgar Linton than I have to be in heaven; and if the wicked man in there had not brought Heathcliff so low, I shouldn't have thought of it. It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; [...]
Since Heathcliff loves her so much, he cannot handle what he listened and runs away from Wuthering Heights. But what he doesn't listen what she says after that:
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 Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.'
Some years passes by and Heathcliff comes back to Wuthering Heights as a wealthy man. He is now cold, aggressive and wants to do his vendetta.
It's hard to talk about this book without giving a spoiler, since there are many things going on.
The fact is that Wuthering Heights is a classic, had a great influence in pop culture and it's a book I'll always recommend!
Have you ever read it? :$
[Only registered and activated users can see links]