Study notes: Wuthering Heights
On the Yorkshire moors, the orphan Heathcliff grows up with Catherine Earnshaw and loves her fiercely. When she marries someone else, he spends years taking revenge on two families. The story is told by a housekeeper to a visitor, so you piece the past together like a puzzle.
Themes
Love and revenge. Nature and wildness. How hurt passes between generations.
People to follow
Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, Nelly Dean, and Mr. Lockwood.
Talk about
- Why is the story told by Nelly?
- Is Heathcliff a villain or a victim?
- How does the second generation end differently?
Public-domain text. First published in 1847; Emily Brontë died in 1848, so this text is in the public domain in the US, Canada, the EU and India. Summary and notes written by ViralScopeHub.