Wuthering Heights / Wuthering Heights
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Autor:
Emily Jane Bronte
Country:
Turkey (TR)
Book Theme:
European writers “without borders”
Publisher:
Thomas Cautley Newby
Publishing Year:
1847
Emily Jane Brontë lived a quiet life in Yorkshire with her clergyman father; brother, Branwell Brontë; and two sisters, Charlotte and Anne. The sisters enjoyed writing poetry and novels, which they published under pseudonyms. As “Ellis Bell,”
Emily wrote Wuthering Heights (1847)—her only published novel—which garnered wide critical
and commerical acclaim.
National Award for Children’s and Young People’s
Abstract
Wuthering Heights opens with Lockwood, a tenant of Heathcliff’s, visiting the home of his landlord. A subsequent visit to Wuthering Heights yields an accident and a curious encounter, which pique Lockwood’s curiosity. Back at Thrushcross Grange and recuperating from his illness, Lockwood begs Nelly Dean, a servant who cares for Thrushcross Grange, to tell him the history of Heathcliff. Mr. Earnshaw, the owner of Wuthering Heights, brings home an orphan from Liverpool. The boy is named
Heathcliff and is raised with the Earnshaw children, Hindley and Catherine. Catherine loves
Heathcliff but Hindley hates him because Heathcliff has replaced Hindley in Mr. Earnshaw’s affection. After Mr. Earnshaw’s death, Hindley does what he can to destroy Heathcliff, but Catherine and Heathcliff grow up playing wildly on the moors until they encounter the Lintons.Edgar and Isabella Linton live at Thrushcross Grange and are the complete opposites of Heathcliff and Catherine. The Lintons welcome Catherine into their home but shun Heathcliff. He begins to think about revenge. Catherine, at first, splits her time between Heathcliff and Edgar, but soon she spends more time with Edgar. When Heathcliff overhears Catherine tell Nelly that she can never marry him, he leaves Wuthering Heights.Around that time, Catherine continues to court and ends up marrying Edgar. Their happiness is short-lived because their relationship is strained when Heathcliff returns. Meanwhile Heathcliff lives at
Wuthering Heights and marries Isabella. Soon after Heathcliff’s marriage, Catherine gives birth
to Edgar’s daughter, Cathy, and dies.Heathcliff vows revenge and does not care who he hurts
while executing it. He desires to gain control of Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. In
order to exact his revenge, Heathcliff must wait 17 years. Finally, he forces Cathy to marry
his son, Hareton.Through all of this, the ghost of Catherine haunts Heathcliff. At the end,
Heathcliff and Catherine are united in death.
