If so,what do you think of the two main characters,viz,Heathcliff and Catherine?
2006-07-20 00:52:45 · 8 answers · asked by mustafaalnagar 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I don't think I'm up to 10 times yet, but I'm still young. I'll make it there someday.
When I think of Heathcliff, I think of thunderstorms. Everything he did, he did to an extreme. At the beginning of the book, I sympathised with him - poor little orphan misfit. Somewhere in the middle of the book, when he married Isabella, I began to have this uneasy feeling that I shouldn't like Heathcliff anymore - that he truly was more like a devil than a human. By the end of the book, when Heathcliff was so haunted by Catherine's ghost, I still had an uneasy feeling that he was not someone I should care about, but somehow, I still did. I still felt a little sorry for him and little pleased that he had such an undying love (if it can be called that) for Catherine.
When I think of Catherine, I think of a girl who got over her head. She had such potential to be dynamic - to be a lightning bolt in Heathcliff's thundering storm. I really wanted her and Heathcliff to get together. And I hated her for marrying Edgar. I think she had too much pride, and it led her into a downward spiral that ended in insanity and death. In some ways, this proves she was a match for Heathcliff, and that their love relationship could never have existed. Neither one would have bent for the other. Neither one would be respectful or submissive or understanding. They were both selfish.
If it was just them, the story would be about evil. Fortunately, there are other characters in the book to balance out the evil.
2006-07-20 02:20:39 · answer #1 · answered by AJK 2 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I've read Wuthering Heights so many times I've lost count. The main characters Heathcliff and Catherine are interesting to say the least. I think that Heathcliff started out as a typical gothic tortured soul, but you find it hard to actually feel sorry for him when you see that he is capable of the same cruelty that his adopted brother was. The same went for Catherine. She teeters between being far too silly and simple and then far too self absorbed and spoiled to be truly sympathetic. I think that the fact that a reader borders on feeling empathy for their situation and hating them for their "personality traits" makes the novel so addictive. They become real, because they are not perfect.
2006-07-20 09:57:56 · answer #2 · answered by Jessica H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think Catherine makes a great model of women. They put social standing and approrpiateness ahead of feelings--even if it means sacrificing true love.
Heathcliff, on the other hand, is not merely a model for men in general, but a model of obsession. Today, we would call Heathcliff a stalker. His actions aren't demonstrative of love,
but selfish desire and mental illness.
2006-07-20 09:39:27 · answer #3 · answered by keats27 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read it once, but it was a long time ago, so I don't remember it well. I remember liking it, and I think that by the end of it I hated both Heathcliff and Catherine. As I remember it she was a spoiled girl who was too proud to admit her feelings for him and he's love for her turned into obsession and desire to revenge when he was rejected.
2006-07-20 09:53:42 · answer #4 · answered by landslide 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i haven't read it quite 10 times, but I must be getting there.
Heathcliffe - what can I say? Unlucky, brooding, short fuse But loves Cathy with a passion that inspires
Cathy - vain, silly, game-player, but loves Heathcliffe the same
Makes me want to bang their heads together !
But I love the book. It's beautifully written and it still makes me cry every time I read it.
2006-07-20 14:11:04 · answer #5 · answered by Patchouli Pammy 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
love those Bronte women don't you!
Catherine to me is a shallow superficial person - she could have taken the heathen out of Heathcliff - he was devoted to her but she was afraid of such strong feelings so she opted for safety - unlike Jane Eyre she made Rochester put it on the line or else
2006-07-20 08:00:09 · answer #6 · answered by prettymama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a fascinating book. Everytime you want things to work out, but they don't...
You can see how they set things up for their own unhappiness...they had passion, but not real love...they couldn't stand seeing the one another happy without the other one.
2006-07-20 09:24:20 · answer #7 · answered by mury902 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"had the pleasure of"-Err, I don't think so.
No fighting, no comedy. I see no point.
2006-07-20 08:00:23 · answer #8 · answered by genghis41f 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋