Just Literature discussion

Is love always right? Is love human? Can love be wrong? Wuthering Heights, one of my favourite novels ever is not just the story of the passionate and visceral love and bond between Catherine and Heathcliff, but also a study in what moves our deepest and most uncontrollable feelings.

Lynn wrote: "I think it suffers from the wrong reputation. A lot of people seem to think it's going to be Mills and Boon among the heathers but it's not like that at all. The films don't do it justice."

I agree; it's an extremely dark, very powerful novel. Love in WH is part of a much bigger, I'd say metaphysical, discourse on human nature.

I agree with putting this novel under 'fiction': it does have romance, and a strong element of, in it, but romance is there to communicate other things. When Catherine says, 'Heathcliff is me,' (I'm quoting from memory) she does not mean, 'I love him so much,' it is not a hyperbole. I think it tells us about how the two of them were separated at birth but are the same being, the same identity, the same soul. I read it as a comment on how the physical world is divisive.

Has anyone noticed that their love is so clise to the love between siblings, twins even?

Wuthering Heights, what can I say? I was absolutely riveted. Was so drawn in that the writing style almost influenced mine.

But did you know, Emily Bronte died thinking the book was a failure owing to slow sales and negative reviews? And did you also know she paid 50 pounds to have it published?