wuthering heights
Term project topic: "Wuthering Heights /Jane Eyre between history and romance".
Wuthering Heights, the only novel of the writer Emily Brontë, was published in 1847 and is considered to be one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature.
At his publication the book was greeted with a note of skepticism, the reading public finding it controversial because of his ideas that criticized the Victorian ideals of that period , including religious, hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality. Whilst most critics at the time recognised the power and imagination of the novel, they were also baffled by the storyline and found the characters extremely forward and uninhibited for Victorian times. Also, when it first came out there was all sorts of confusion about the author, because Brontë published the book under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.
Wuthering Heights is a novel based on unrequited love and one man’s quest for revenge. This book is a novel of two halves and personally I would argue that the first half of the book is far superior to the second half. The first part details the tense goings on of Heathcliff and Cathy’s relationship and how society keeps them apart whilst the second part discusses Heathcliff’s motive for revenge on Hindley. Eventually he attains his revenge and then repents for all he has done wrong to get it which eventually allows him to be with the one character in the text that he shows any sort of feeling towards. It is their relationship that builds this novel and is probably why this novel has come to be well loved by everyone.
Although Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as a classic of English literature, it received mixed reviews when first published, and was considered controversial because its depiction of mental and physical cruelty was unusually stark, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day, including religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality.
Wuthering Heights, the only novel of the writer Emily Brontë, was published in 1847 and is considered to be one of the most popular and highly regarded novels in English literature.
At his publication the book was greeted with a note of skepticism, the reading public finding it controversial because of his ideas that criticized the Victorian ideals of that period , including religious, hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality. Whilst most critics at the time recognised the power and imagination of the novel, they were also baffled by the storyline and found the characters extremely forward and uninhibited for Victorian times. Also, when it first came out there was all sorts of confusion about the author, because Brontë published the book under the pseudonym Ellis Bell.
Wuthering Heights is a novel based on unrequited love and one man’s quest for revenge. This book is a novel of two halves and personally I would argue that the first half of the book is far superior to the second half. The first part details the tense goings on of Heathcliff and Cathy’s relationship and how society keeps them apart whilst the second part discusses Heathcliff’s motive for revenge on Hindley. Eventually he attains his revenge and then repents for all he has done wrong to get it which eventually allows him to be with the one character in the text that he shows any sort of feeling towards. It is their relationship that builds this novel and is probably why this novel has come to be well loved by everyone.
Although Wuthering Heights is now widely regarded as a classic of English literature, it received mixed reviews when first published, and was considered controversial because its depiction of mental and physical cruelty was unusually stark, and it challenged strict Victorian ideals of the day, including religious hypocrisy, morality, social classes and gender inequality.