"Cliff Notes - Wuthering Heights" - читать интересную книгу автора (Cliff Notes)

Wuthering Heights has always been controversial. Earlier
generations argued over the quality of the novel. Readers today
generally regard it as a high-quality work but argue over the
meaning of its content. Some readers believe the novel's most
significant theme is revenge. Until just before the end of the
book, Heathcliff's revenge against those who have wronged him
taints all the relationships at Wuthering Heights and
Thrushcross Grange. Other readers see Heathcliff in a more
favorable light and consider the most important theme to be
rebellion. Heathcliff, a penniless outcase, eventually beats
his oppressors at their own game. You can also widen your focus
and say that the book mainly explores the nature of love,
weighing definitions offered by Heathcliff and by Edgar. Their
actions, and the feelings and actions of other characters, help
you understand these definitions. You can also see Wuthering
Heights as principally concerned with the conflict between
stormy and calm sides of life. Wuthering Heights generally
represents the stormy side, Thrushcross Grange the calm side.
The conflict between these two ways of life causes great
suffering until the marriage between Cathy and Hareton--a
marriage in which both approaches to life are recognized and
accepted.

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS: STYLE

Emily Bronte's language is both spare and dense, which is why
it's often compared to poetry. When you finish the novel, you
have a firm sense of the bleak beauty of the moors, for
instance, yet there are remarkably few descriptions of the
landscape. What is there is immediately evocative.

Her prose is also unusually rhythmic, often violent and
abrupt. The verbs themselves are almost hysterical, until the
final paragraph, in which the moths "flutter" and the soft winds
"breathe."

Her two sources of imagery are nature (animals, plants, fire,
the land, the weather) and the supernatural (angel/devil,
heaven/hell). These are evident in the words she uses and the
mental pictures she evokes.

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WUTHERING HEIGHTS: POINT OF VIEW

There is no single point of view in this novel. The story is
told by Lockwood, by Catherine, by Ellen Dean, by Heathcliff, by
Isabella, by the younger Cathy, and by Zillah, the other
housekeeper. Since the author never explicitly tells you what
to think, you must evaluate the story in the same way that you