This culminates in the beginning of the tale, and then Lockwood’s narrative neatly finishes off the tale. Upon his return, he claims Wuthering Heights for his own and does his complete best to spoil the lives of those around him.
Eventually, Heathcliff leaves to one day return and wreak his revenge on those still living at Wuthering Heights. Hindley Earnshaw, dislikes the favouritism and after the unfortunate death of Mr Earnshaw treats Heathcliff like a servant and outcast to the rest of the family. Mr Earnshaw brings home an orphan named Heathcliff, a grubby gypsy boy who is quickly accepted by Mr Earnshaw and his daughter Catherine, who becomes quite taken with the young boy. He discovers that the housekeeper, Ellen Dean used to work up at Wuthering Heights and she agrees to tell Mr Lockwood the story of the family that used to live at Wuthering Heights. He promptly leaves Heathcliff’s residence at Wuthering Heights and returns Thrushcross Grange. During the night he sees a woman’s ghost coming to the window.
They seem a little odd, but Lockwood becomes snowed in and must spend the night in a room once owned by a woman named Catherine. Primarily, we meet Mr Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange who visits his landlord Mr Heathcliff and his niece and nephew, Hareton Earnshaw and Cathy Linton. It’s a story of hate, passion and love, and certainly isn’t one with a happy-ending, in my opinion anyway. So it’s fair to say my expectations were pretty high! I’m reading this one as part of my Revenge module, the first I’ve covered so far. I’ve heard it called an English literature student ‘essential’ as well as always being ranked in Top 100 books of all time. I have always known about how good Wuthering Heights is supposed to be.
Published in 1847 under the author pseudonym ‘Ellis Bell’, Emily Bronte’s only novel is certainly a big player in the literary world.
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