I recently watched the BBC production of "Wuthering
Heights" with my roommate last week and found it incredibly enjoyable.
This is funny because I read the book before and didn’t feel the
same sentiment. It was really difficult to read! What was funnier though was my
English-major roommate felt more reluctant to watch this movie. She knows the
Bronte sisters frontwards and backwards. But by the time part one was over, she
was insisting we continued watching into crazy hours of the night.
We both discovered a new appreciation for Wuthering Heights thanks
to a fantastic artistic take to this notorious 1800's novel.
What was so compelling to draw me back to Wuthering Heights? I
recall hitting the middle of the book where the plot shifts to different
characters and I wanted to quit.
The passion Heathcliff and Catherine is so twisted and compelling
because their emotion overrides all the circumstances around them, and affects
every person around them in the book. The book shows how un-changeable love and
passion is destructive in nature, with Heathcliff and Catherine as the example
of destruction and the younger generation Catherine and Hareton as the positive
example that restores balance back to Wuthering Heights.
Perhaps the movie helps put faces to the characters and helps me understand
the emotion that didn’t translate before as I struggled to understand the old-school
text.
I heard once that Wuthering Heights gets better with age, five
years later has helped validate this statement. And who knows, maybe I will like
it more in even five years.
-Hillary
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