Chrasity

Wuthering Heights

So I have just finished reading Wuthering Heights for the second time for my Romanticism course in Extension English 1! Sadly to say… I am still grasping the concepts of the book. It is by far the most complex book that I have ever read, not in its events, but in its rich characterisation and setting. Never before have I seen such a degree of mastery over character development in a book sustained over 394 pages. It is also certainly quite a detailed meditation into the role of isolation and the connection between past and present of human nature, again shown by the characterisation.

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The book uses different narrators in the first person probably to emphasise the fact that the Romantic paradigm was solely individual, but I have a bone to pick with that. Despite the characters being all completely individual, Emily Bronte sometimes loses the character’s voice within the book. At times I felt like it was just Bronte telling the story rather than the narrator that she had chosen, whether it be Mr Lockwood or Nelly. I must admit also that towards the end, I just wanted it to finish. I had already predicted the ending and the extra 50 pages to get to Heathcliff’s inevitable death was quite a journey… I guess I should be grateful that I just have to read books to study for my senior year as opposed to the scientists and mathematicians who have to remember and apply formulas!

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Altogether, a great book, but I’m gonna be definitely sick of it after the analysis process, which I’m starting righhhhtt…. now. Wish me luck!

If you ever see this.

I just wanted to let you know that while you wish me misery, misfortune and loneliness, you should never forget one thing. I revel in loneliness, you perish in it. That’s one of the advantages of being me, loneliness just comes close to company… I hope you don’t stay lonely for too long.