Wuthering Heights by Emily Bront

The book I have recently read is Wuthering Heights written by an English-

speaking writer Emily Bront, it was her only novel, now considered a classic of
English literature, which was published in 1847 under the pen name Ellis `2Bell.
Emily Bront was born on 30 July 1818 in Yorkshire. She was the younger sister
of Charlotte Bront and the fifth of six children. On 19 December 1848 Emily
Bronte died because her health, had been weakened by unsanitary conditions at
home, the source of water being contaminated by runoff from the church's
graveyard. She became sick
It is a novel of passion and cruelty, published in 1847, and it was the only novel
she ever wrote and one of which many, including her sister Charlotte, disapproved,
regarding it as fundamentally immoral, especially in the creation of the central
character, the brutal Heathcliff.
Emily set what was to be her sole novel in and around her beloved moors creating,
in Catherin, a character as wilful as herself.
Heathcliff is introduced to the Earnshaw family upon Mr Earnshaw finding him in
the streets of Liverpool, as an orphan. His introduction to the other Earnshaw
family members is not well received, Heathcliff is referred to as it and is
unwelcome by the Earnshaw children, Hindley and Catherine. This highlights a
very unpleasant start to Heathcliffs childhood in the Earnshaw household.
Heathcliff develops a particularly negative relationship with Hindley, this starts at
childhood and continues into adulthood. From the day Heathcliff enters the
Earnshaw house Heathcliff felt nothing but hate from Hindley, the beatings and ill
treatment that Hindley instilled on him, hardened Heathcliff and he formed a
similar hatred for Hindley.
When Earnshaw dies, Hindley wastes no time in correcting the usurpation from
which he believes he has suffered by consigning Heathcliff to the level of a
servant. Meanwhile, Catherin and Heathcliff have formed a bond which nothing
will ever break, even Cathys marriage to the wealthy Edgar Linton.
Catherine loved Heathcliff, but her only doubt about ever marrying him is that they
would be poor and not of high social standing. She naively thinks that marrying
Edgar will help Heathcliff to escape from Hindleys torment. It is the issue of class
and wealth that has made a potential everlasting love between Catherine and
Heathcliff into a tale of torment and broken hearts

Bronte in places makes Catherine and Heathcliffs love seem immoral and
damned, as it affects all those around them; and being the root of all cruelty, hatred
and revenge. Heathcliffs life was always filled with cruelty

When Catherine died; Heathcliff felt as though she had left him to live a life in a
lonely abyss: without her, without love and without a soul. When Heathcliff says
that he killed her he is referring to them not being together that killed her. Denying
their love and being apart killed her heart.
Heathcliff lived under the emotional pressure of excess passion which burnt him
out, made him irrational, stole his life, made all the others his enemies. Heathcliff
wanted the world, wanted control, and he got it. I believe Heathcliff died the year
after he owned (conquered) Thrushcross because he was not meant to own
civilization. Thrushcross brought Catherine Linton into his home, Lockwood to
visit and with his visit the reappearance of Catherine's ghost. The evil of
Wuthering Heights burnt itself (Heathcliff out) by its very success in expanding to
Thrushcross Grange.