Wutherin Heights by Emily Bronte - 1336 Words

The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontà «, takes place in the outsides of England during the late 17th and early 18th century. The novel is a diary kept by Mr. Lookwood the new resident of Thrushcross Grange, one of the two houses located in the moors. The diary does not contain his story, it contains the story of the lives of the people that live or once lived in either house as it is narrated by Nelly, a servant. Nelly starts the narration of the story when she first came into the household, as just a kid, were she had to serve Hindley and Catherine who are just a few years apart from her, at first the troubles in the house were just minor but as the kids grow up and an adoptive child is added to the family the problems evolve and become more common. Nelly continues the narration describing how the two kids grow up, get married, have kids and finally the kids also get married. John Hagan correctly claims that Wuthering Heights is such a remarkable job partly because it persu ades us forcibly to pity victims and victimizers alike The statement is accurate since that is the feeling that arise as one reads the love novel where loved ones cannot be together and revenge is always in mind. As the book evolves the reader learns to pity Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, and Linton Heathcliff, which play the role of the victims as well as the victimizers. While Heathcliff seems to be one of the strongest characters in the story, who is constantly the victimizer, this was not