Conclusions
Reading Wuthering Heights is quite an "interesting" experience for me. In many ways, it not only helps me seeing the violent and broken fragments in life, but also fulfills my wild unrealized imagination (I mean in some way). The unstoppable wild and violent scenes once and once would throw one to some discomposed and flustered condition. I believe many others must have same kind of experiences. The extreme passion, the profound behaviors…they seem to vibrate the naked soul to the destruction, and then recast it.
One of my friends even hates this book to death since it really disturbed him. Therefore he threw the book away half reading. This kind of response made me think of George Orwell's 1984. I remember at that time, I stayed up 2 nights to finish reading it, since I was completely in that atmosphere, as if I was Winston in 1984. That kind of terror, fright, made me completely caught in a crazy mental state.
They are both not that realistic. Wuthering Heights is colored with many Gothic elements, while 1984 is a prediction novel. They are just stories. But you cannot have the chance to remind yourself that this is not true, it's fictitious. Reading these novels seems to awaken "some sort of broken, twisted experiences out of the origin of your life" (by W. S. Maugham).Sometimes I cannot but wonder how deeply is Emily Bronte's involvement with this novel. We knew that books often mirror some character, value of the authors. Bronte failed in love once in her life, and her stubborn and tough nature also reflected on her attitude toward people and daily life. Did she put some of her characteristics on the role Catherine Earnshaw, just like Jane Austen did to Emma? And did the role Heathcliff represent the love she wanted to search for? Or the love b/w Catherine Linton and Hareton is what she wanted to have after compromising b/w reality and her original desire? The above are just my wild associations, needing further verifications.
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