This book, deemed a literature classic, was written by Emily Brontë. It tells the tale of an impossible love. It is set in England on the moors, in a relatively big house baptized Wuthering Heights. Mr Earnshaw, the master of the house, returns home from town with an uncommon gypsy boy, who was abandoned in the streets. Mrs. Earnshaw is reluctant at first but she soon accepts the boy too. Since he has no memory of his name or parents, he is called ‘Heathcliff’. Catherine, Mr Earnshaw’s daughter, likes him straight away, and the two stay close friends. On the other hand, Hindley, Mr. Earnshaw’s son, is jealous of Heathcliff, for he is his father’s favourite, even if he is not really Mr. Earnshaw’s son. Hindley continually beats Heathcliff, and this makes Heathcliff hate his agressor. As the children grow up, Cathy, as Heathcliff calls her, and him get into all sorts of trouble, and the more they are punished, or separated, the more they become naughty. On one particular excursion on the moor, they come across a very big house called Thrushcross Grange. They peep into a window and see a rich happy family, with the mother and father reading, and the too children fighting over a poor puppy. Cathy and Heathcliff make fun of this scene, but they create too much noise, and the dogs are unleashed. Cathy gets bitten on the leg, with the dog still attached to her, and she tells Heathcliff to leave her and run. Reluctantly he does, and Cathy is forced to stay many weeks at Thrushcross Grange for recovery, and when she returns, she is a changed girl. She became well groomed, good, and polite, just as a lady should. She also became friends with Edgar, one of the children she had made fun of. Cathy is forced to chose between childhood sweetheart, dark, strong, poor Heathcliff, and Edgar, the rich yet frail and feminized boy. When she chooses Edgar, Heathcliff disappears, but returns several years later as a succesful, strong man, who is fixed on having his revenge on everyone whoever did him wrong.

This story can sometimes get confusing with all the resembling names and the marriages, but it is a very good complicated love story, which was written in an efficient and captivating way. It’s main themes are love, hate, and jealousy. It explains the complication and consequences of a jealous lover and what he/she is willing to do to prove himself worthy of love, or what he/she is capable of doing to get revenge. Many characters suffer the consequences of jealousy and false love, and many also perish from it.

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