Enraged by Heathcliff's constant presence at Thrushcross Grange, Edgar cuts off contact. He encourages Isabella's infatuation with him as a means of revenge on Catherine. Catherine falls ill, distraught.Įdgar and Catherine marry, and three years later Heathcliff unexpectedly returns - now a wealthy gentleman. Heathcliff overhears part of the conversation and, misunderstanding Catherine's heart, flees the household. She confesses to Nelly that she loves Heathcliff, and will try to help but cannot marry him because of his low social status. Two years later, Catherine becomes engaged to Edgar. Heathcliff is locked in the attic and vows revenge.įrances dies after giving birth to a son, Hareton. When the Lintons visit, Hindley and Edgar make fun of Heathcliff a fight ensues. Catherine is attacked by their dog, and the Lintons take her in, sending Heathcliff home. Heathcliff and Catherine spy on Edgar Linton and his sister Isabella, children who live nearby at Thrushcross Grange. The climb to ruined farmhouse Top Withens, thought to have inspired the Earnshaws' home in Wuthering Heights
He and his new wife Frances allow Heathcliff to stay, but only as a servant. Hindley departs for university, returning as the new master of Wuthering Heights on the death of his father three years later. Hindley beats Heathcliff, who gradually becomes close friends with Catherine. His own children he neglects, especially after his wife dies. Returning from a trip to Liverpool, Earnshaw brings home a young orphan whom he names Heathcliff Earnshaw treats the boy as his favourite. Thirty years earlier, the Earnshaws live at Wuthering Heights with their children, Hindley and Catherine, and a servant - Nelly herself. While he recovers, Lockwood's housekeeper Ellen "Nelly" Dean tells him the story of the strange family.
Lockwood later returns to Thrushcross Grange in heavy snow, falls ill from the cold and becomes bedridden. Woken by Lockwood's fearful yells, Heathcliff is troubled. Snowed in for the night, Lockwood reads the diary of the former inhabitant of his room, Catherine Earnshaw, and has a nightmare in which a ghostly Catherine begs to enter through the window. There he meets a reserved young woman (later identified as Cathy Linton) Joseph, a cantankerous servant and Hareton, an uneducated young man who speaks like a servant. In 1801, Mr Lockwood, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange in Yorkshire, pays a visit to his landlord, Heathcliff, at his remote moorland farmhouse, Wuthering Heights. It has inspired an array of adaptations across several media, including English singer-songwriter Kate Bush's song of the same name. Charlotte edited a second edition of Wuthering Heights after Emily's death which was published in 1850. Wuthering Heights was accepted by publisher Thomas Newby along with Anne Brontë's Agnes Grey before the success of their sister Charlotte's novel Jane Eyre, but they were published later. It was controversial for its depictions of mental and physical cruelty, and for its challenges to Victorian morality and religious and societal values. Wuthering Heights is now considered a classic of English literature, but contemporaneous reviews were polarised. The novel was influenced by Romanticism and Gothic fiction. It concerns two families of the landed gentry living on the West Yorkshire moors, the Earnshaws and the Lintons, and their turbulent relationships with Earnshaw's adopted son, Heathcliff. And I have to have that.Wuthering Heights is an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, initially published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. My favorites are the 2007 and the 1999 versions, because those are the two which, for me, create a believable love between the protagonists.
They do it well, but that's the only scene where I believed them as a couple, and without the rest, well, it fell flat. I loved the scene after the weddi ng where Jane emerges from her room and is caught, fainting, by her Rochester - none of the other versions I've seen portray that post-wedding confrontation as effectively as Dalton and Clarke. And that kind of ruined most of it for me. She doesn't show give us enough to let us feel that she was a personality worth savoring and exploring for Rochester. She never effectually breaks out of her schoolgirl reserve and insipidity to let Rochester see the current of intellectualism, faith and purity which should have been there.
But his Rochester would never have fallen for Clarke's mousy, uninteresting, stupid-looking Jane. In spite of his good looks, I think Dalton did well as Rochester - passionate, dynamic, moody. I wish I could say I loved this version of Jane Eyre best - I wanted to, because it's the longest and most complete and the avid purist in me loves that - but I just couldn't buy the chemistry between Clarke's Jane and Dalton's Rochester.