Rania Raza

Honestly one of my all-time favourite novels. Emily Brontë describes the feelings of other characters so deeply, yet so realistically, as it is from another persons perspective. She managed to make such perfect chemistry between Heathcliff and Catherine that you wanted a piece of it, yet poisonous and obsessive enough to make you see how badly it would affect the character development of Heathcliff through out the story. As every new character was built, she made sure to perfectly describe both their physical wellbeing as well as their mental wellbeing, which helps the readers paint up an extraordinary organized picture of their character. Most of the characters attribute to at least one problematic part, including the side characters (ex Isabella Linton, whom falls in love with the wrong people and wont listen to Catherine and her brother's advice, and Nelly, who gives up too easily and let's Heathcliff in, even though she is aware that it might cause huge problems) which gives off a really good effect on us readers, as it is utterly realistic to feel like the small and kind of "unimportant" characters actually matter and see themselves as their own main character and they all have different stories to tell about the same events. This effect becomes even stronger by the fact that it's a "side character" itsf that tells the story, but also by how Heathcliff talks about himself. Several times, he has referred to himself as the victim of the story, small and helpless, drowned in pain, while others in the book tend to describe him as a threat and straight up a monster. Now these two perspectives may perceive various opinions, but if you ask me about mine, I must say I agree with both. Heathcliff was indeed abused and mistreated in many ways as a child, which made him grow up with the thought that everyone around him were monsters, until Catherine came into his life. As she must've been the only light point in his life, his heart for sure did die with her. The trauma was afterwards passed onto his own children as well as hers, and of course, that made him as much of a harmful monster as a helpless soul, desperately looking for where he belonged. Now that is what I mean, that Emily gets you into a state of mind where you can only think of what's going on inside each and every of these characters minds as well as she wrote it. The only noticable negative part of Wuthering heights was that for me, Catherine Earnshaw Linton seemed like a very materialistic character because of her steady change of personality and sudden death, as it was a way to continue to build Heathcliffs personality instead. I still liked Heathcliffs slow but slightly noticable change of character though, so for that I am forgiving Emily Brontë. Dont read it if you're weak hearted though, it's EXTREMELY emotional and heartbreaking TwT