What's so great about Wuthering Heights?
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- Опубликовано: 26 май 2022
- Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights is one of the great gothic novels, but it's also a divisive book that a lot of people don't get along with...
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It is pertinent to realise that the Bronte sisters led very unhappy lives. Jane Eyre written by Charlotte Bronte was also about an abusive relationship and written at about the same time. They were girls who grew up with no mother. They died young. They seemed unable to function in society. I think the lives of the Bronte sisters is perhaps where the real gothic story lies.
This is why I’m eager to read their biography, The Brontes by Juliet Barker. Although it’s a massive 1000 page tome so I don’t know when I’ll get to it. I should read Anne Brontë first!
@@WillowTalksBooks I should read Anne Bronte too.
Have you read the biographies of Emily?
It's so confusing and mind boggling how I can, at the same time, pity so much and hate so much a character (Heathcliff).
I certainly do pity him so much it makes me cry. He was not born evil. He was a sweet, normal child in the beginning, but the violence and abuse he got repeatedly, the humiliation, the mistreatment, turned him into a monster that you end up hating and being disgusted at, because he takes his revenge and inflicts it upon innocent people that never harmed him (like poor Isabella and Cathy's daughter) when he should have got his revenge just against Hindley (in my opinion that was well deserved).
But even when I hate him the most, and despise him the most, and want him to be severely punished for his actions especially towards Isabella and Cathy's daughter, I can't help but just want him to be reunited with Cathy and just be with her. Even after death. Their being together is the primary NECESSITY of the novel, it's the main driving force of th characters, and it becomes the main necessity of the reader... it's a power much stronger than reason.
I just love love the way you summarised it
That scene where Lockwood sees Catherine’s ghost is one of the most striking scenes I’ve ever read. I read Wuthering Heights for the first time a few years ago and loved it, for much the same reasons as you. While I wish I’d read it when I was a 16 year old goth, I don’t think I would have appreciated it then as a perfect example of the gothic strain of Romanticism (I think of it as big R Romantic rather than small r romance). That quote you used is one of my favourites - “I cannot live without my life! I cannot love without my soul! “. That one and Cathy’s echoing comment “my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath-a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff”
Haha I was actually tearing through the book trying to find that last line you quoted! I love it so dearly! And you’re right, capital R Romantic books and gothic books share a lot of DNA. I often think of gothic lit as a response to romantic lit in the same way that punk responded to rock and roll.
@@WillowTalksBooks it’s p.79 in my edition. The end of the conversation Heathcliff overhears & runs away before he hears that bit
I'm rereading it and I really like when cathrine tells her husband that his passion is ice water and hers is burning hot. Which is true. I think both her and Heathcliff were the type of person that react and do what they desire despite the outcome and that drew them to each other.
I find it interesting that cathrine wanted to marry Linton and have Heathcliff as her consort instead of just running off with Heathcliff. In her mind she thought it was perfect because they would have money and a way out of the misery her brother put them under. She knew she could control Linton as she had him wrapped around her finger. But Heathcliff she could never control. The same goes for Heathcliff though. I'm not sure he would of become rich if he and cathrine ran off and she surely wouldn't be cool with being a begger. I think he needed that hate to fuel him to be rich. Being rich was a way to spite cathrine because it was money and his worth in society that kept her from being with him.
Wuthering Heights is my favourite too and I've always felt the similarities between Heithcliff and Frankenstein's Monster.
no-one explained this novel as you!
I’m so glad you agree and get what I mean!
'Wuthering Heights' is one of my favourite classics (don't know what that says about me ;)). This one and 'Master and Margarita'. And I still remember that passage you quoted 'I cannot live without my life, I cannot live without my soul', it stuck with me since I read it years ago!
Master and Margarita has been on my list for years!! The shame that I still haven’t gotten to it!
@@WillowTalksBooks oh definitely - it's marvellously weird 🥰
"Master and Marguerita" is my fauvrite too, I'm just missing English translation. I've got it in Polish than in French, I would love to read it in orginal.
You've hit it on the head when you talked about "the ferocity of the language". That's what I love the most about this gem, how fierce and intense it is! Which is really odd by the way, because I have crippling anxiety and normally stay away from anything with even a fraction of this intensity. Ironically, that made the unlikeable characters a plus for me (at least in the first half, I did sympathize with young Catherine & Hareton and that made the second half a bit harder to read) because I can enjoy all the turmoil without the worry 😂😂 I wish Emily had the chance to write more books though 💔 We were truly robbed 😭
I have dreadful anxiety as well but literature never has an effect on it for whatever reason. Reading something as intense and bleak as this honestly feels naughty. Like we shouldn’t be privy to the lives of such wretched people lol
Limbus Company, the 3rd game made by Project Moon taking place in the same Universe as Lobotomy Corp and Library of Ruina just did a GREAT Adaptation of Wuthering Heights with Canto 6
I've been putting reading this book off for a while and now you've convinced me - it's definitely going on my summer tbr! Thank you for your wonderful content 😊
omg same!!!
You’re so welcome! Just brace yourself for all the awfulness I just mentioned lol
Thank you so much for this, Willow! I have a beautiful hardcover I bought on a whim from my local bookstore last month, I hadn’t read it since high school and always meant to go back to it, but something new and shiny always comes along to push it further back in my TBR. Now you’ve made me so excited to pick it up!
The new and shiny books do such a great job of pushing the older ones away! Glad I found time to read this gem again :)
You did an excellent job summarizing this book. Thanks so much!
I don't just love Wuthering Heights...I AM Wuthering Heights!! (hehe)
I just live and breathe this story!!!! It got deeply engrained in my soul since the first time I read it! It's so powerful!
It boggles my mind how Emily just invented a story like that.. It's so otherworldly to me.
Heathcliff is the most powerful character of all novels in my opinion. It's hard to believe he doesn't actually exist. I guess I'm a bit mad, that's why I love this story so much hahaha. I guess I'm not very normal in the head. I just love to say the name Heathcliff, and to write it, and to hear it... You bet I love the song by Kate Bush and listen to it daily and sing it around the house desperately calling for HEATHCLIFF!! Hahaha I'm laughing but I'm deadass serious, do I have a serious problem?
P. S. Don't judge me too harshly, I've been on an airplane /Airport for several hours and I'm starting to lose sanity I'm so tired
I've had the Kate Bush song on repeat since I heard it, It just really sets up the vibe
I've only just started the book but I already love it so much
God......finally someone I can truly relate to when it comes to wuthering heights.........its not just a favourite book to us its our soul.
I just read Wuthering Heights and was so excited when this video was recommended!! Love this channel
One of my favorite books. Happy to see a video that explains it so well, thank you
Loved this video! Thank you for making it. WH is one of my favourite books, I've read it three times now (the last time I listened to the audiobook narrated by Joanne Froggatt and I can't recommend it enough; that scene with Heathcliff shouting, her reading of it gave me chills). Every time I talk to someone about how brilliant this book is and how beautifully written, I preface it by saying please don't go into this thinking it's a romance, it's not. I can see why people think this (especially if they see those quotes taken out of context) but it's a shame, because they end up missing everything else that makes it great. Like you said, what I love most about it is all of the stuff people don't (but totally should) :)
I’m so glad you get exactly where I’m coming from! And thanks for recommending a great audiobook of it!
The way you analyze! Amazing 🙌🏻
I've wanted to read this for a while (since it was referenced in the Freinds episode lol). I think you finally sold me giving it a try.
I'm glad to see that you seem to be doing better mentally. Take care of yourself. Thanks for the content.
I’m thrilled to hear that! And yeah I am doing much better :)
WHAT! I'm supposed to do a presentation about a book tomorrow in class. And I chose wuthering heights, because I love it so much. So I was looking for some inspiration but OMG I love the way you talk and get excited about the book. Your content is just awesome! I subscribed and I will definitely watch the rest of your videos whenever I have time. But I just wanted to say that you're great!
Possibly the best YT review of WH that I've seen. I love (and relate to) your passion for this killer novel.
Wow that’s quite a compliment, thanks!
What irks me is that some people out there actually consider this a love story and Heathcliff a romantic ideal! This is light years away from the truth. And then other people consider this book a glorification of toxic love which again is a blatant lie. Wuthering heights tells us about the consuming nature of bullying, obsession and infatuation and the ruinous consequences it brings lasting generations, the tragedy of a man who has been made a monster by the toxic upbringing he has endured and now can't let go of the obsession and revenge for his lover which results in total destruction of him and all those around him. As many tales tell about the beauty of love, this book explores the darker aspect of that very love, without glorifying it at all, and with a rhythmic prose and vivid imagery. My favourite book second to the Silmarillion!
This book has been sitting there in my bookshelf for more than a year now..but you`ve successfully convinced me to read it..Thank you💜
Hooray! Great news. Just go in with the right expectations.
Dude, who are you? Yeah, I clicked it for wuthering heights but damn you're awesome! Half-way thru the vdeo and I forgot all about the book and just focused on the way you effortlessly explained what's a complex tragic gothic epic novel. I've read this book and didn't come across anyone who put into words as well as you did. And I'm not talking about just the summary. Damn your talented
Oh wow, thank you so much! This is an incredible compliment, especially considering I was going through a complete emotional breakdown at the time when I made this video lol (I’m all better now)
@@WillowTalksBooks woah, honestly surprised.. you seemed kinda vibrant and radiant sort of.. glad you're good now
I wish I had discovered your channel earlier. The way you explained Wuthering Heights made it less intimidating. THANK YOU!!
Thanks for talking about this book. It's my all time favorite novel. I know that's almost cliche to say about Wuthering Heights, but there's something about it that seriously affects me. Even saying the name chokes me up in conversations about it sometimes. People will say, "Did your voice just waver?" And I go, "Naw, I think I just... um... swallowed some air.... shut up." Anyway it's hard to find good discussions about it online and people don't read enough anymore, so thanks for the comradery. I've been trying to get my brother and his wife to read it for months, but they don't really do that. I keep giving them books, but they just sit on the shelf. They look good on the shelf, though. My hope is that somebody with my passion for literature will come over to their house one day and say, "Hey, nice! Wuthering Heights! Have you read this?" And it will be the thing that convinces them. I live on the other side of the world from them now so it won't be me, but there must be some bro/sis in arms out there that will convince them. Also Frankenstein's awesome, too. Mary Shelley was a badass.
Thank you for this! Wuthering Heights has always been my favorite book. I read it first when I was a teen, and I immediately adored it. I was surprised later in life to hear other people saying they abhorred it. When I read it again in middle age (with more life experience and having been through a close friendship with a narcissist by that time) I recognized many things that I hadn't seen before, and I wondered if it was a good thing that this was my favorite book; I also understood a bit why other people disliked it so much. Then I read it again, and the language just drew me in. "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." What luscious language! Emily Bronte is a poet in both the structuring of the novel and in the way she writes her sentences. She has created unforgettable characters -- characters who are more like forces of nature than like people. I'm finding more and more that I remember very little of what I read; sometimes I can't even remember a book I read last month. But even though I've only read Wuthering Heights 3 or 4 times, in my entire life, I find have whole passages memorized without even having tried to do so. Her writing is that good!
I’ve reread the book over the years for it’s poetry & striking imagery; your review brings new perspectives: hadn’t thought about cycles of abuse nor the creation of “monster”
Honestly the monster thing came to me as I was rambling lol
@@WillowTalksBooks valuable inspiration 💛
@Wow! You've totally talked me into reading this book. I love your point of view on it. Thank you for this.
You’re very welcome! I need more people to see Wuthering Heights the way it’s means to be seen. Not all these romantic lies lol
I loooooove Wuthering Heights! It is one of my most favorite books ever. I first read it when I was 18 and it was the Harper Teen edition, which has a red rose on the cover with a black background. It was meant to appeal to teens who are interested in books like Twilight. I'm now 30 and I still have that edition. The book looks like it has been read many times. 💚😁 Also your edition is beautiful! And the passages you quoted are some of my most favorites from the novel. Although it concerns that some people (mainly straight women from what I've seen) romanticize Heathcliff the way Isabella did 😬 Anyway! Seeing this has made me want to read it again! And sorry for the rambling 😅
Oh my god I remember when publishers did those Twilight-esque covers! And yeah I agree, it’s super problematic that people romanticise Heathcliff! But the same could be said for way too many “romantic heroes” 😬
I love your channel. And your one-book analysis
Aw thank you so much!
I'm studying this novel and i really love your vid it helped me a lot since I found this novel complicated thanks.
Love your review , thanks .
I'm not a re-reader of books at all, even when I like them, but I have read Wuthering Heights 4 times, so far. Very similar feelings to your own, I think. I had the impression it was an "epic romance", which didn't put me off reading it, but I was pleasantly surprised when I found it was something much much darker.
Word for word what happened to me! I’m terrible at rereading, but not when it comes to Wuthering Heights.
@@WillowTalksBooks Wuthering Heights and Emma are the only two I have read more than once. Although I'm thinking of revisiting Far From The Madding Crowd soon too, as I'm in a big reading slump for a few months now, and it might just pull me out of it.
Love this video !! Thank you !! 🤍✨️
I just finished reading this book.....and i can't explain how I'm feeling right now and i wanted to know what other people think of this book
You've definitely convinced me for a reread of this book and I will
P.S i gave this book 3 stars but I cannot wait to read it again and again and bump it up to 5
It is the beauty of the book that I think many people become to enjoy over time. I read it as 16 years old girl and now as 31 years old woman and have totally different feelings about it. Now I understand the abuse aspect of it and can appreciate the beauty in suffering of the characters. I would also suggest you to read it again in a few years. ❤ it’s beautifully horrifying and horrifyingly beautiful.
I just finished the book last night and I find your video incredibly eloquent and well-put to describe what I've felt reading it as well. Thank you for this ! (One incredible scene I think is when Heathcliff forces Linton, sick as hell, to go out in the fields to meet Cathy in order to force her to come back to Wuthering Heights, the level of cruelty, the description of his sickness and the weird dynamic that it creates between Cathy and Linton is absolutely incredible !)
One of the books I’ve re-read many (12+ at last count) times is Jane Eyre. I appreciate and enjoy all of the hallmarks of Wuthering Heights yet no matter how many times I’ve tried I can’t get through it and I dont know why! I love Le Fanu, and Collins and Walpole and Lewis and Radcliffe…. With this review I am once again inspired to take on Emily Bronte! Thank you…
I also adore Jane Eyre and I’m looking forward to returning to it soon!
Pathetic fallacy… my favorite literary term growing up and ive never heard someone use it so well. This is an awesome video, thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thought I should read wuthering heights. Your perspective makes me want to read it more.
I’m glad to hear that! It’s such a masterpiece.
Fantastic review
I love Wuthering Heights. I read it at School. It is so brutal and all consuming. The love in it is fearsome, destructive and incredible. When you remember at the time asking someone to haunt you back then was damning them - it is massively shocking
I really adored your comments on my favorite book of all time... I want to feel that love but I don't want to live within a love like that... If makes sense 😅. Great vídeo, I will see other videos of yours.
100% this! I adore Wuthering Heights and I recently made the mistake of rereading it in a buddy read group. Nobody liked it, they all tore it apart for all the reasons you said and I was the lone voice in the wilderness (or on the moors!) calling out in WH's defence. Same happened with Frankenstein as the book is entirely different from most expectations. But I am a melancholic so these will always be the type of books that call to me.
Wuthering Heights was already on my reading list. Now you managed to put it at the top.
Awesome! Hope you didn’t mind the spoilers! I kind of assumed most people watching this would’ve already read it 😅
@@WillowTalksBooks Nope, just more incentive to read it
Great review and good advice. Read it like a psychological drama.
Thanks!
i found your channel through this video i read this book in education looking at it as a romance (as that was the angle of the curse) and i hated it some 10 or so years later i decided to give it another go and agree with every thing you said in your review
I came here to discover why I like it too😅 I started reading it and couldn't put it down and I can't explain why almost everything is miserable in this book, still I am loving iiiiit
I've been putting off reading this book for a while now and was really bored in the first two chapters but I'm so glad that I push through,the story is fascinating and I'm really enjoying it now, I'm in chapter 13 atm:))
update: I loved this book and gave it 4 stars !!
Awesome news!
@@WillowTalksBooks :))
I disagree with the wording of "Cathy fell in love with Linton"
She never ever loved Linton, even though she says she does, I believe.
She just saw him as an escape and a solution to take Heathcliff and herself out of her miserable situation.
It was a relatively smart plan (although no ethical in the least).
She wanted to marry him and use his money to help Heathcliff.
Wish I saw this before I starting reading the book, I thought there was something wrong with me as I read because I keep thinking “these people are awful, this isn’t romantic, they are not nice” I am still reading it and have a far bit left but this genuinely makes me want to continue reading but with a completely different view.
Okay but I loved the relationship between hareton and Cathy... It made me feel like there was a happy end to the cycle of abuse.
This book changed the way I look at gothic literature
I thing its fantastic the way that some of the characters hate each other and love each other at the same time a book is a very hard read you wouldn't think people would despise each other in this way but it's good at the end of the story when you know both Heathcliff and Cathy are free free from hate and despair and jealousy it's one of my favourite stories
Ohhh round and round we go ~
You on a ride or something, aye?
@@WillowTalksBooksIts a Limbus company reference
The story where its chapter is based on Wuthering Heights has that as the final fight theme
I think I have read this books least twice…both times…I hated the characters and did not get why people thought it was a romantic novel. You definitely put it in perspective…it is a gothic novel.
I am not into horror…this is a great example of a gothic novel I can enjoy.
Yeah it’s all about how you approach the book!
the way i gagged when you said the two books you re read the most are frankenstein and wuthering heights bc ME TOOO!!!
Yes to good taste!! 💜
Great job! I agree that this is one of the top 10 greatest novels of all time and one of my favorites as well. I do however warn everyone that I know to never read it. It would be better to jump into a pit of hungry lions for 4 or 5 days. If you do choose to read it, it cannot be denied that this story is an absolute masterpiece of unsurpassable literature! I loved it.
Great review. How would you define pathetic fallacy in this novel? I often confuse pathetic fallacy with personification
Pathetic fallacy is when the weather reflects the mood and emotions of the moment. Personification is treating objects and bits of scenery like they’re people. So in Wuthering Heights, the isolation and grey skies and dead landscape reflect the characters’ actions and feelings. That’s pathetic fallacy.
@@WillowTalksBooks Gracias! :)
I love Wuthering Heights ! It's a ruthless and at the same time pretty satisfying story of revenge, told by unreliable narrators. There's something about bleak revenge stories haha definitely one of my favourites, together with The Count Of Monte Cristo.
I complete agree with all of this!
Love Wuthering Heights and love The Scarlet Letter: both dark and brilliant
I like Wuthering Hights a lot for it's beautiful language. But I love the Monk by M.G. Lewis even more. Both are great stories. So sad Emily didn't write anything else.
I’ve been meaning to read The Monk for like ten years. Thanks for reminding me!
@@WillowTalksBooks You really should. It such a rollercoaster of events and emotions. First all the characters that were introduced I got a little confused with, but maybe that was because I was reading the english original and english is not my native language. I'm sure you will also like The Monk a lot.
the violent, turbulent and stormy weather of the wild open moors is like an extension of what the characters go through internally
Yup
I've tried several times to read this novel, but never got into it. I am guilty of thinking that Wuthering Heights is a romance novel. Your video taught me otherwise. Thank you. I've started reading it again.
Wow that’s so cool to hear! I did hope to change a few perspectives on it. Thanks :)
@@WillowTalksBooks And here I am, having read Wuthering Heights with a fresh perspective. I LOVED it! Thank you again.
@@pauld2810 THAT’S AMAZING YAY!!
I have to admit to never reading "Wutherinig Heights" , because I tought it is a romance. I hate romance books, it's completely not my jam. If someone sold it to me as a gothic novel I would have read it long time ago. The book I've read multiple times and is special to me is "Master and Marguerite", I love it from my second reading. I'm not sure if it resonate the same way with someone who's outside the ex-soviet block. It's one of the books I go back to when I feel depressed together with a polish author who use to write funny crime novels with specific language and wit to them, that's my self-help package. There is also "American gods" which I've read more then once in different languages which is always fun.
Master and Margarita is a book I’ve been meaning to read for years and years! I’ll get to it soon. And I’ve also recently had the urge to reread American Gods, my favourite Gaiman novel :)
I just finished wuthering heights audio book, read by Joanne Froggatt. It was an experience all together. I just loved the book. I'm 28 yo, I do think you'd rather be older to fully enjoy this book. But the characters, their flaws, it's just way too good
To my shame I still haven't read this. It falls firmly into the category of "books I'm convinced I'll love but inexplicably haven't picked up yet". You will be the first to know when I finally get to it.
Callum!! You haven’t read Wuthering Heights?? I am shaken! Hop to it!
@@WillowTalksBooks I have no excuse 😓
WH is the book version of 'Very bad things'. Both are brilliant.
"Sandwich of Nastiness." Also brilliant. 6/5 Stars.
Wuthering Heights is easily one of the best written works in the english language. That being said, can somebody help a girl in need and tell me similiar books to wuthering heights? I will leave the definition of 'similiar' to you, even just similiar vibe is fine! I will definitely check it out:)
(Edit: Forgot to mention how much I enjoyed the video! I have been waiting for this ever since the idea was mentioned in the book tag video)
In the description of this video I’ve linked an article full of modern gothic novels that might scratch that itch!
Just a perfect book….
Limbus Company!!
i hated wuthering heights the first time i read it, might give it a reread with the attitude you suggested!
Please do! Attitude and expectations are key!
Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy series i have read like 5 times
That’s good :)
People conflate Romantic with romantic. The Romantic is a gothic adjacent literary and aesthetic tradition of late 18th early 19th century that was a response to the Enlightenment. Themes of natural, wildness, inspiration, subjectivity, passion, storms, human emotion unbound. Its often talked about re the lake poets Coleridge, Shelley, Wordsworth etc and typified by Lord Byron whose poetry was dark alluring moody and wild.
Later the term romantic evolved to be associated with desirious love because when ppl fall in love they are often moody and tornentous and passionate. Eventually "romantic " as a casual term evolved to mean something more akin to chivalric courty love of 13th century with some passion and mood thrown in. Ie "romance novels".
People hear Wuthering heights is Romantic and they expect a "romance".
Healthcliff is a Romantic Byronic hero because he is Romantic (ie savage brooding and uncontrolled) and a hero (a main male character) but that does not mean he is "romantic" or "heroic" by the regular definitions used nor meant as an object of female desire/a potentially attractive mate the way, say, Austen's Mr. D'arcy is.
Now D'Arcy is very civilized and aloof not really Romantic at all. But because he is meant to be an attractive mate for heroine we might say he is "romantic". Austen wrote satirical novels of wit and manners, not Gothic/Romantic genre, however her novels revolved around courtship as marriage was the only business decision a middle class woman of her time and place could make and a one time gamble which she staked her entire life on. So its "romantic" in the sense of revolving around chivalry rules of courtship.
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You just listed all the reasons i absolutely love this book. My favorite of the Bronte novels. All the Brontes wrote awful horrible characters. I love it!
This was my mother's favorite book. After she died I read it and understood my mothers yearnings for a Heathcliff who could only bring her sadness. This is a wild beautiful novel. My favourite like my mother. My daughter is going to study eng lit at Cambridge next month and this will be her parting gift from her nanny and mum x This is a fantastic explanation of the novel. 😊X
"And I'm going to spoil it--it's old as hell." Well played. 6/5 Stars.
it’s not a romance but i do think it is written that way in how poetic it is so i don’t blame people for thinking that way
That’s a very good point. The passages I read out are breathtaking and definitely fall under “romantic” at least in terms of language
Reading this now and all these people need therapy. This is a telenovela! 😊❤
is it horrible of me to think that this novel (even after watching this review) is incredibly romantic? i think refusing to let yourself or your lover move on, even at the cost of others around you and yourself, is just so lovely. you would rather sit in the wet disgusting trenches of your misery than be parted from them. then again, i say this as someone who really loves the tv show hannibal and the novel twins by bari wood so
Oh no, not at all! I feel the same way. The way that Cathy and Heathcliff talk about each other, and the way they destroy everything around them for their love, is very sexy lol. It’s just also cursed and abusive and wrong. But there’s a guilty part of me that finds it all so darkly romantic and I think that’s intentional!
@@WillowTalksBooks I feel the same way :]
It took me forever to go through this book. I kept starting it and leaving it. I'm finally reading it now, and keep in mind I love gothic and dramatic stories, but this! 😂 oh my God, these people are sooo dramatic, Jesus! I was constantly saying "aaand scene!" every time they had one of those terrible fights where they cry and kiss and a second later they curse eachother 😂 I literally got to this video by googleing for "Seriously, Wuthering Heights, what the f**k?!"
You had me at “cringey YA novels”
Twisted story
Indeed
What your statement about the book is does count for modern day romance as well. In life, in general, this day in age, a lot of peoples so called “romance” isn’t “romance” at all. There’s a lot of mistreatment, misplaced feelings, misinterpretation in feelings in relationships. I see a lot of people thinking they got what they call real love while they really don’t. There are people in relationships that don’t even know the true feelings of their partner and a lot of ppl can’t handle love matters the way they should. Look at the devorce ratings. At least Heathcliff an Catherine really had the deepest love and connection in the deepest of both their feelings but didn’t live accordingly and were often disconnected by outside forces and people who didn’t want them together. How do you expect to understand literature about a deep love like that if you can’t handle the depth of these kinds of deep rooted feelings yourself I ask you? That’s why different people read this literature where “Wuthering Heights” belongs to very, very …very differently and come to different summaries because it’s understood differently…
George Orwell described it as morbid
Ok
It's Volume II. It's a trudge.
I tried reading it twice and failed both times rip
Noooo 😭 third time’s the charm?
@@WillowTalksBooks I'll try in a couple of years, maybe I'll grow into it 😅
I've always said that to love Wuthering Heights you must hate yourself at least a little bit. To love Wuthering Heights is an act of masochism. 😆 I would love to be convinced that this is not true. 🤣
Can we just watch the movie instead ? 😂
Dear Willow 🙏🏻
I have no idea what to do with this comment
I understand Brontë's novel as a painting, but I do not enjoy the tones or colors of it.
healthcliff is a narcisstic ....other characters also seem to have to personality disorders like BPD?
why the fu** are you giving the spoilers
Nobody else has ever complained about this so it might just be a you thing, captain asterisk
Please don't assume that poeple who don't like this book either came to it with the wrong preconception or didn't understand it. I wish fans of a classic would stop doing that. You're not "right" for liking it. Good for you. I wish I did but I hated it, and so did a lot of poeple who aren't stupid.
Me: There seems to be a cultural misconception that this is a romance novel, whereas it’s actually a very gothic novel.
You: DON’T CALL ME STUPID
@@WillowTalksBooks OK you think I overreacted and was irrational. You still framed the idea of disliking this book as the result of an error of judgment.
I just dislike it because I find it so dull and boring
Aw that’s a shame
What's so great about Wuthering Heights? Nothing - absolutely nothing. It is full of awful characters and bad situations - nothing enjoyable to read about. Sorry to point it out
Hahaha don’t be sorry. The world is full of people who don’t have the faintest idea that good art can make people angry and uncomfortable. Maybe watch the video?
I went into this book thinking it was a romance book but i was plesently supriced 🫶