Posts Tagged by Emily Bronte
A guide to the classics: Jane Eyre
| September 27, 2011 | Posted by Jess Kadow under guide to the classics |
After enjoying Wuthering Heights so much, I had assumed that the talents of Emily Brontë would triumph in my heart over those of Charlotte, the older and more widely acclaimed sister, but one whose tales do not inhabit the same gothic genre as the wild and passionate abode of Heathcliff and Catherine. How wrong I was. Jane Eyre is packed full of misery and pain in their most raw forms, but they are also mingled with the scents of hope and love, making it beautifully sad when Jane’s fortunes stumble into the gutter but providing a feeling of elation when she picks herself back up again. The life of the plain orphan girl, who begins her struggle for happiness in the… more
A guide to the classics: Wuthering Heights
| August 23, 2011 | Posted by Jess Kadow under guide to the classics |
Despite the fact that many people’s first reaction to the title Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë is to sing lines from the Kate Bush song, this novel has clearly made enough impact in the literary world for it to be considered one of the staple classics along with Austen’s novels. But Wuthering Heights is far from the cosy world of arranged marriages and family tiffs of Pride and Prejudice. It conveys an entirely new world comprising of deep, raw emotion and violence that is beautifully offset by the simultaneously dangerous and passionate setting of the misty moorland, a setting which reflects the isolation of the characters as well as contributing to the gothic atmosphere Brontë creates. Even the name boasts… more
