Wuthering Heights: Fantasy and realism

Professor John Bowen considers Emily Brontë's combination of fantasy and reality in Wuthering Heights and the way in which fairy tale and Gothic elements 'haunt the edges' of the novel. Filmed at the Brontë Parsonage, Haworth.

[amberspecter]

That comparison between the structure of the novel and its content, its spirit and subject matter, is really very interesting. I never thought about that, thank you

[AntheaCarson]

I don’t know why I love this book so much

[jackwalter]

Wuthering Heights is NOT a romance novel. The prose is exquisite.

[pyewackett]

Emily was by far the most intelligent of all the Brontës. She would never have destroyed/ sanitised, even changed any of her sisters work like Charlotte did. I'm no fan of Charlotte

[mariapazravaioli]

Wuthering Heights, the most beautiful and tragic love story

[josedamiaoleandro]

I would like to know the name of the music of this film.

[TDdd]

It seems so many of you scholars miss it. I asked times before who Emily Brote's character was in her book. Most people get it wrong because Heathcliff and her were the same person. He never received the love in his life, and she was an invalid who never knew love. Heathcliff is the hero, and yet so few people see it that way. Study Emily Bronte, and the story comes together.

[Abcdefghijklmno]

Wuthering Heights is the perfect example of PASSION. But if I was the author myself, I would definetly NOT make Heathcliff soooo cruel. That's the only thing that I hate about the book. And yet Heathcliff is not evil by nature and I know that in the end he hated himself and even said to young Catherine that he was worse than the devil. That, I think is clear evidence as to Heathcliff's regret of being evil maybe with the people that didn't had anything to do with his suffering. Although I admit that he didn't regret his cruelty towards Isabella. I thank everyone for all the likes.

[coneil]

Background music and muted voice makes this very difficult to hear

[philipmilner]

Where did Heathcliffe get the money from to buy Wuthering Heights? I've never read the book, just watch the film with Lawerance Olivier and Merl Oberon