Wuthering Highets

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Bronte

I was in the mood from some classic reading a couple of weeks ago and Wuthering Heights, hit the spot. I love the classics for many reasons, I love their flowery language and in-depth descriptions (for what honestly).

Above is the most on-point picture of a book I've taken to date. This story takes place in the English country side at two houses, one on top of a hill and one at the bottom, and in between is four miles of moors. I finished this book at a park, and with the temperatures rising above 50's it was nice being outside but it was still very dead and dreary looking, which was exactly the setting of this book.

I would describe this plot as if Romeo and Juliet lived, but never married after falling in love, accepted the separation, and Juliet went on to marry a noble man, and Romeo couldn't stand it so he disappeared for three years. Upon his return, he marries the sister of Juliet's husband, Being in such close proximity to each other, but now unable to express their love, Juliet goes into fits and makes herself sick with longing and despair. Before she dies, she births her husband a beautiful daughter.

Romeos wife hates him, and she dies after birthing a son, whose she entrusted her brother, who is willing to take him in a and raise his nephew as a son. But Romeo found out about the arrangements set for the son, which he hadn't know existed, and demanded for take care of him himself.

The two kids soon fall in love, but that also ends in misery.

Obviously, Romeo and Juliet are not the characters names, and the story is more complicated than that, but thats a good description, I'll say.

I found a lot of the characters annoying and dramatic, and the only one I really liked was Ellen, the nurse to Juliet and her daughter. She was the only one who kept her head the whole story.

I got the urge to read this book while watching You, the Netflix original show, and now that I've read it, I see one of the characters a lot differently, and is shines a new light on her part in the show.

I'm glad I finally got around to reading this classic story, I was supposed to read in high school four years ago, but better late than never.

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