Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Rating: 4/5

“May you not rest as long as I am living; you said I killed you-haunt me the, then! The murdered do haunt their murderers, I believe. I know that ghosts have wandered on earth. Be with me always-take any form-drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you.”

If you have read my previous reviews, by now you would be sure of the love I have for gothic novels. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a classic gothic novel with a tint of horror set in the nineteenth century in the hills of Northern England. The book is highly mistaken for a romantic tale of love, it is not. It is a lovestory of pure obsession. It is dark, wild, violent and ironically, everything at the lack of love. 

Heathcliff is the central character of the novel and you cannot not hate him. Bronte has written him in a way that you would end up loathing him and each one of his actions but you would still pity him for the loss of his love. 

Wuthering Heights is a story of wildness, both of Heathcliff and his lover, Catherine. Nature as a theme has played an impeccable role in the novel. It has acted as a symbol to describe the characters of the book.

It deals with various themes like revenge, class, supernatural, nature, passion and most importantly, love. Out of all the love stories I have read, Wuthering Heights would probably top the list.