Wuthering Heights (novel): Difference between revisions

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The only novel written by [[Emily Bronte]] (of 'the Brontë sisters'), and an archetypal example of a Gothic Romance. Has been filmed several times, most notably the 1939 version starring [[Laurence Olivier]] as Heathcliff. Also inspired the 1979 [[Kate Bush]] song of the same name ("Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy, I've come home...") as well as an [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqiUGjghlzU adaptation] in ''[[Monty Python's Flying Circus]]''. And perhaps we shouldn't forget [[Genesis (band)|Genesis]]' album ''Wind and Wuthering'', which used a quotation from the book's ending for two of its song titles. And let's not also forget that [[MTV]] also did an adaptation of their own with Heathcliff as a guitar-strumming song-writer pitted against classic cello-playing Edgar.

* [[Only One Name]]: Heathcliff, Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw, Mr. Lockwood, and Joseph.

* [[Only Sane Man]]: Nelly Dean; and Mr. Lockwood, to an extent, as he chooses to {{spoiler|leave Thrushcross Grange for London because he doesn't want to be involved with such strange people}} after he hears the story.

* [[Oop North]]: The setting. Most strongly represented by Joseph, a gloomy and sour stereotype with an impenetrable Yorkshire accent that no one else shares. This is mainly due to the accent only being used by the lower classes, since the Lintons are gentry and the Earnshaws of sufficient means to be employing servants. Mr Lockwood notes how Nelly, the other major servant, barely sounds lower class, and she notes that she's "read more than you would fancy, Mr. Lockwood," including every book in the Linton library that isn't in Greek, Latin, or French. Given the mutual hatred between Nelly and Joseph, it wouldn't be surprising if she intentionally tried not to sound like him.

* [[Operation: Jealousy]]: Heathcliff uses Hareton to this effect to try to get his son interested in Cathy (II).