Wuthering
Heights is a classic of the English literature. The novel
speaks to us about three familiar generations and about all his personal
problems.
The novel presents an innovative
structure. The first narrator of the story is Lockewood. He is a foreign and comes
to the Wuthering
Height to know Heathcliff who has rented a nearby villa, the Thrushcross Grange. His first impression of the
family that live here is not very good. He perceives a strange environment. Heinterprets
in a subjective way what is happening in Wuthering
Height. Then, Nelly, the ancient servant of the house, appears like a second
narrator of the story. Eventually, is Zillah, the new servant, who tells to
Nelly all that she knows and that she sees. The reader knows the story through
these characters and has the sensation of having attended fragments of life of
these characters and it will turn out to him difficult don’t take part of his pain.
The main characters are:
Heatchliff, who is a very cold and distant person. His only aim is to take a revenge
for the persons who reject him for his condition of adoptive. Catherine is an
energetic and selfish character. She loves Heatchliff but of a compromise she
marries with Edgar. Nelly is the servant. She is a kind and fair person.
In this novel we can appreciate
all of the elements that belong to the Romantic Movement; for example we can
observe that there is a predominance of the feelings opposite to the reason, the
feelings are taken to the extreme, there are supernatural elements (like ghosts
or spirits) and doses of terror, there are moments of jealousies, envy,
ambition of power, alcoholism...
I recommend it to all people who desire
to enter in the deepest feelings of the all characters.
