Wuthering Heights

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Summary: A Beautiful Story of Love that Never Ends
Review: Wuthering Heights is my favorite book. The love Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw had was a love nobody else could undersatand but them. It defied all odds and boundaries. They were truly meant for each other and even death couldn't part them. There love is one that will go down in history as one of the truest loves in the world.

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Summary: Powerful and Original
Review: This story is more than a love story. It embodies Bronte's philosopy and spiritual quality. Through reading other literary criticism about the book and Emily's work and life, I made a lot of new discoveries about the book, which seems never ending.As in Heathcliff's last words :"I have nearly attain my own heaven.", it's a story that rebel against social conventions and look inwardly into one's own soul in search for truth and happiness. I think Emily is the most original and imaginative Victorian writer (and among her sisters).

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Summary: It was not the most exciting book I've ever read.
Review: Even though Emily and Charlotte are sisters, it obvious who the better writer of the two is, Charlotte. I chose this novel for my 12th grade students to read and I decided that I would never again read it. It takes too long for everyone to realize Heathcliff is a jerk. I think that if anyone is interested in reading the Brontes to read Charlotte. If anyone is interested in reading literature from that era, read Jane Austen.

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Summary: Missing the Hook
Review: Wuthering Heights was well written, I must admit, for what it was. It never failed to convery its primary themes; jealousy, betrayal, and revenge. At the same time, it was missing the hook that captures you and makes you care whether the characters succeed or fail. I waited for it chapter after chapter until finally I couldn't seem to feel anything for Heathcliff or Cathy. I have read other works by the Bronte sisters. And while I won't discourage anyone from reading a book they are interested in, I must warn you, if you have any illusions that this will be in some way similar to that of "Jane Eyre," do not waste your time.

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Summary: If you suffer from boredom, this may help ...
Review: ...but otherwise, there's a plentiful selection of better books to read before this one. This book contained likable and despisable characters, a rather uncommon trait these days. The plot and character interaction were at times confusing, yet really didn't go anywhere significant. Remember, old and british doesn't necessarily equal good.

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Summary: The best book I ever read!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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No book has changed me as much as Wuthering Heights has. Its appeal for me is in its sense of otherness, something so completely removed from ordinary life. Wuthering Heights is set in a realm where ordinary morals do not apply, where love is transmitted via pain and suffering, a maelstrom of the extraordinary, which lasts for about 40 years, and then is gone. Heathcliff and Cathy must be two of the most unique figures ever created in English literature. Cathy, the spirited and vengeful heroine, who pays for her one fatal mistake with her life. Heathcliff, whose drive for revenge can only be calmed by his love for Cathy. Wuthering Heights is a microcosmos, another universe, so alien and foreign from ours. Its roughness and brutality may confuse us, but beneath the pain is love and tenderness

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Summary: Discussing the book (overall).
Review: Emily Bronte did an excellent job in writing Wuthering Heights. Each character plays an important part in the novel. The way she describes each setting makes you feel like you are really there. Heathcliff, the main character, begins the novel as a young, nice orphan child brought into a family. People treated Heathcliff like a slave when he was younger,but when he gets older he gets revenge on everyone. Catherine, the other main character, is supposed to love Heathcliff according to her, but then marries another man because of money. I think Heathcliff and Catherine should have gotten married. The setting was described beautifully. Emily described the feilds of land that the kinds would play on and the green grass blowing in the breeze. The way she set the mood and the setting the same was great. She descibe how the flowers in front of Wuthering Heights were dead to let you know how bad of man Heathcliff was. Overall it was a very good book, a little hard follow sometimes, but a good book. I enjoyed reading Wuthering Heights.

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Summary: I found this to be an alright book.
Review: I did not find this to be a book that I would recommend to others. It was not really my type of book to read. There were two parts that I found of intrest. In the first part of the book I found it kind of funny. When Lockwood came to live on Heathcliffs' property. Lockwood expressed his wanting to be isolated, but he kept talking to Heathcliff. Then Heathcliff interupted Lockwood and said, "I should not allow any one to inconvenience me, if I could hinder it-walk in!" The other part I found it kind of weird. Cathy clams she does not make fun of Heatcliff,but she keeps making rude comments. Cathy says a one point, "I did not mean to laugh at you." These were the only parts that I found intresting in the book. I found them intresting because of there ironic effect.

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Summary: A smashing novel by Bronte!
Review: Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is an excellent story of love and hate. Both love and hate are powerful forces, but Bronte shows that loves conquers all in her book. I enjoyed this book and gave it a ten because Bronte shows that two people can be brought together in life and death. This book never has a dull moment once you really understand it, and from that point on, you fall in love with all of the outgoing characters. One woman is torn between love of a man and his money and love of a soulmate. Just because the soulmate is not rich, she will not marry him, and then starts the hate and jealousy. Even though the girl could not be with her soulmate in life, they are together after death. Bronte overall shows how revenge can drive a person to their graves, and how love always overcomes hate. -G. Davis

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Summary: Emily Bronte wrote a terrfic and strange book.
Review: As I read Wuthering Heights I found it strange, agonizing, and a powerful book that every individual should read. The novel cannot be considered merely a love story. Al the character's in Wuthering Heights are punished in some way, with the exception of Cathy and Hareton, who manage to destroy evil in thier lifetime. One theory holds that the story represents a conflict between storm and calm. When storm and calm clash, there is hate and violence. In the story; everything happens through Heathcliff and the distortion of his personality through thwarted love. Another interpretation would be the conflict between good and evil (love and hate). The spirit of the novel is a religious one and contends that for a nature to be fully complete it must make contact with an existence beyond this life here on earth. END