martedì 28 gennaio 2014

"Wuthering Heights" written by Emilily Brontë


  • Subgenre: novel.
  • Setting: XIX century-England.
  • Plot: Heathcliff, a black child, changed the life of Earnshows' family. Everyone there detested him because of his rudeness, excepted Cathy. She was a girl who became fond of him. Every night they escaped their relatives to go to the moors. One night they met Edgar and Isabella Linton who lived at Thrushcross Grange. They became Cathy's friends and they hated Heathcliff too. When Cathy's father died, Edgar decided to merry Cathy, but there was a problem, she didn't care him, she loved Heathcliff. Despite that she accepted his proposal. After their wedding Catherine became ill, she and Heathcliff couldn't meet each other again, so Catherine died for her heartache giving birth Cathy. Cathy was Catherine and Edgar's daughter. In the same time Isabella and Edgar got married too. They also had a son, Linton. He lived with his mother, but when she died he went to Thrushcross Grange with Edgar and Cathy, while Heathcliff lived in Wuthering Heights. The latter wanted his son, but Linton was very ill and he treated him badly. His uncle, Edgar was ill too and died before him. Linton and Cathy got married because Heathcliff wanted to inherit Lintons' property. Finally Linton and Heathcliff died and Cathy married Hareton, her cousin and they lived in Wuthering Heights.
  • Characters: Heathcliff, the protagonist; Catherine Earnshow, Heathcliff's stepsister; Edgar Linton, Catherine's friend; Isabella Linton, Edgar's sister; Hindley Earnshow, Catherine's older brother; Linton, Isabella and Heathcliff's son; Catherine, Catherine and Edgar's daughter; Hareton, Hindley's son. 
  • Narrator: 1st person- Mr Lookwood and Ellen Dean.
  • Point of view: narrator's.
  • Style: detailed and realistic descriptions.
  • Personal comment: I liked this book because it's a very interesting story with suspense. It is very easy to understand, but there are also important themes: love and death. The love is the anxiety that controls the characters and the death is their freedom, the end of their anguishes.     
-Scandiffio Arianna.

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