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This song represents Heathcliff's obsession with getting revenge on everyone who has mistreated him.

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This song represents Heathcliff's obsession with getting revenge on everyone who has mistreated him.

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This song relates to Heathcliff's love for Catherine. He will never stop loving her.

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This song relates to Heathcliff's love for Catherine. He will never stop loving her.

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This song describes the "Romeo and Juliet" type of love story as depicted through Catherine and Heathcliff

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This song describes the "Romeo and Juliet" type of love story as depicted through Catherine and Heathcliff

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A review from an actor in the Wuthering Heights movie. 

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A review from an actor in the Wuthering Heights movie. 

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Kaya Scodelario interview: 'Wuthering Heights will provoke you'

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This clip is from the Wuthering Heights movie based off of the book. This scene shows Catherines death. Heathcliff begs her to stay with him.

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Charlotte Riley Wuthering Heights Clip #11

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"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!"

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"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff!"

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This quote explains Catherine's solid love for  Heathcliff. Catherine and Heathcliff's sorrowful love story is one of the most important topics of the book.

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"I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!’ He dashed his head against the knotted trunk; and, lifting up his eyes, howled, not like a man but like a savage beast being goaded to death with knives and spears."

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"I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!’ He dashed his head against the knotted trunk; and, lifting up his eyes, howled, not like a man but like a savage beast being goaded to death with knives and spears."

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This quote explains the all consuming intensity of the love Catherine and Heathcliff shared. Their feelings for each other were so powerful that Heathcliff was destroyed after her death.

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This Prezi explains the social division and classes in England during the 1800's. This helps with understanding why Heathcliff suffered so much mistreatment. The social aspects during this time period were extremely different than today.

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Social Classes of England in the Early 1800's

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Upper class party in England The middle class consisted of military officers, lawyers, lower clergy men, and civil servants. Lawyers and doctors did not have the social standing they do today because of their stereotypical personalities. Random Fact England at the Time Middle

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This article describes the famous author Emily Bronte. It tells about her childhood, her values and morals, and her expression of her beliefs in her writing. She is highly praised for her literature. 

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This article describes the famous author Emily Bronte. It tells about her childhood, her values and morals, and her expression of her beliefs in her writing. She is highly praised for her literature. 

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"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger."
― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

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"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger." ― Emily Jane Brontë , Wuthering Heights

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This is an animated version of the story. Since the book is hard to understand most of the time, this helped me to visualize.

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This is an animated version of the story. Since the book is hard to understand most of the time, this helped me to visualize.

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS BY EMILY BRONTE // ANIMATED BOOK SUMMARY

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"I want you to be aware that I know you have treated me infernally—infernally! . . . and if you think I can be consoled by sweet words, you are an idiot: and if you fancy I’ll suffer unrevenged, I’ll convince you of the contrary, in a very little while!"

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"I want you to be aware that I know you have treated me infernally—infernally! . . . and if you think I can be consoled by sweet words, you are an idiot: and if you fancy I’ll suffer unrevenged, I’ll convince you of the contrary, in a very little while!"

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This quote highlights Heathcliff's anger and thirst for revenge on those who have wronged him, another important topic.

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 "Mrs. Linton placed her spectacles on her nose and raised her hands in horror…‘Frightful thing! Put him in the cellar, papa. He’s exactly like the son of the fortune-teller that stole my tame pheasant’ . . . ‘A wicked boy, at all events,’ remarked the old lady, ‘and quite unfit for a decent house! Did you notice his language, Linton?"

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 "Mrs. Linton placed her spectacles on her nose and raised her hands in horror…‘Frightful thing! Put him in the cellar, papa. He’s exactly like the son of the fortune-teller that stole my tame pheasant’ . . . ‘A wicked boy, at all events,’ remarked the old lady, ‘and quite unfit for a decent house! Did you notice his language, Linton?"

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This quote emphasizes the huge gap between the wealthy and poor. Those who were low on the social ladder were both viewed and treated like animals.

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This article praises and criticizes  the book. It offers perspective from those who loved its emotional appeal, and those who found it simply boring. It offers a deeper look into the literature itself. 

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This article praises and criticizes  the book. It offers perspective from those who loved its emotional appeal, and those who found it simply boring. It offers a deeper look into the literature itself. 

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Wuthering Heights

First line

1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with.

Great lines

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

Preface to second edition

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes; still it wailed, "Let me in!" and maintaining its tenacious grip, almost maddening me with fear.

"For shame, Heathcliff!" said I. "It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive."
"No, God won't have the satisfaction that I shall," he returned.

"...he shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he's more myself than I am."

"He's always, always in my mind: not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself, but as my own being."

Last line

I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.

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The devil's appeal

I'm somewhat stumped by Wuthering Heights. It's solidly ensconced in the literary canon and inflicted on classes of students. And plenty of people-readers and writers alike-seem to love it.

But three readings at various times in my life have left me as indifferent as my first exposure to it in high school.

It's not that I think it's bad. It's not that I don't recognize how cleverly it's structured-with the story being told by several narrators, often second and third-hand, so we cannot entirely rely on any one person's impressions, and with the various symmetries of plot that commentators are always pointing out. (Though I'm not sure why this latter point is so exemplary-life is not so neatly balanced, so why should our literature be?) And it's not that I don't recognize a great enigmatic character is created in the figure of Heathcliff.

But the problem is that I find it all so (and here's the worst thing that can be said about any work of art) boring.

By now, those who love Wuthering Heights must be gasping. Boring? They have become entirely wrapped up in the emotional intensity of this novel and cannot understand how anyone could be left cold by it.

But mine is not the kind of boredom that comes from nothing of significance happening. Rather the kind that arises from things happening-the same things happening, over and over. Yes, it's all very dense, tense and in tense. But enough already. I really don't care enough about the characters to put up with their endless whinging, their continual longings and upheavals. I can't believe in them, and so I cannot participate in their emotional wringing, any more than I can stand to watch more than fifteen minutes of a soap opera on television.

Yes, there's a germ of interest near the beginning, when the wretched little Heathcliff is adopted into the Earnshaw family of country gentlefolk. His mistreatment at the hands of young Hindley Earnshaw, among others, and his closeness to Hindley's sister Catherine set up a tension similar to that found in Dickens stories of abused youth.

But the rest of the novel consists of Heathcliff's revenge on everyone, well into the next generation. He's as villainous as they come, the menfolk he opposes are weak and insipid, and the women folk are stronger but also stupid. Especially the second half of the novel, after his original antagonists have died off, just drags and drags through the inevitable steps of his eventual victory over all.

And then it all ends anticlimactically and goodness is restored.

Emily Brontë, along with her sisters, was much influenced by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and the Gothic strain is strong in Wuthering Heights, as in Charlotte Brontë's Wuthering Heights also shares with Shelley's book the creation of a unique (at the time) central figure who both repels and attracts. Heathcliff is repeatedly presented as a devil, a man of almost darkly inhuman drive and power. He's evil, no doubt, but we are drawn to him, fascinated by him.

At least that's the experience of those who fall in love with this book, for whom it is a great romance of dark passions.

Sorry, I've never been able to buy into it. As I'm reading it I just wish someone would shoot Heathcliff and get it over with.

Or I wish at least someone would shake the idiotic men and women around him to their senses, so they would act like real people in real life for a change. I can't help suspecting Emily Brontë had no concept of how other people live, love and think.

But, of course, if this is your kind of novel, you're probably not interested in how real people live, love and think.

Or rather, to be fair, you may feel that the heightened, almost ecstatic, sensibilities in such art can reveal something profound about what's really going on behind how we appear to live, love and think in the real world.

I can appreciate that. I might even get into it with certain books.

But not with Wuthering Heights.

- Eric

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Wuthering Heights First line 1801.-I have just returned from a visit to my landlord-the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. Great lines Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.