What points was Wuthering Heights trying to make?

[Mass_Liberal]

I'm just finished reading it for English. Just wondering what youses think.

[Lavender Brown]

1. The point is: don't fall in love with your adopted brother

[Mass_Liberal]

2. I see

and I thought it was deep... silly me.

[Lavender Brown]

5. Sorry...

I am a fan, but I don't know if there is a "point" or not. There are lots of themes and different things going on. From a social perspective, I think she is critiquing how power is passed down from father to son, and how in this story that ruins the lives of generations of women in the two families and the village.

[Mass_Liberal]

6. no problem

I was just kiddin aroond, ifn yae knoo wha' ah mean. Wow, bet you weren't expecting me to pull my Joseph impression out on ya!

[Darth_Kitten]

10. LOL

:rofl:

[tjdee]

3. That life and love suck hard.

Basically, LOL.

True Love never dies, but love dissatisfied will haunt your ass for nearly a generation.

What a painful story.

Btw, the film version with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche follows the story more faithfully than the famous one with Laurence Olivier, and makes one even more depressed. I found that out the hard way.

[Mass_Liberal]

4. ok

that's not a bad characterization, I don't think.

[JitterbugPerfume]

7. like a lot of fiction

it is just a damn good read

[joeybee12]

8. Don't look for a point, and don't look for one theme...she's got a lot

going on there--that's the way they wrote back then--not as succinct as we're used to in this day and age. You can find lots of thems, but not one over-riding one!

[pagerbear]

9. How funny you should ask--

I'm reading that book myself.

[Hardrada]

11. Never give a sucker an even break.

[Shopaholic]

12. True love lasts beyond death?

and uhm, stay off the moors.

[amazona]

13. love is a disease

It's a pretty common point of view over most of human history. Love is a disease, you fall in love, your hormones screw you up, and destroy you down to the 3rd and 4th generation. Pretty simple really and probably true much of the time. It's like an addictive disease, although they didn't have the disease theory of addiction back in the day. But that's basically it. Cathy and Heathcliff are hooked and they can't give it up no matter who they destroy, even their own children. Were your parents any different? Mine weren't. In fact, my mother's favorite book was Wuthering Heights and probably for that very reason. It's a true story for most of humanity up until, eh, maybe 1978 or so.

If you can't understand this story, be glad. It is self-evident to people who are, as I say, pre-1978 or thereabouts.

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