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The Wuthering Heights review

This book took me a long time to read but i finally finished it on Thursday.

I didn't realise the story involved so many characters and i constantly got confused with the names. But yes i didn't realise the underlying theme of the book centred around women having a lack of rights in ole' England and that when a woman married a man, all her property would become his and all his property would remain his. The woman would not be able to have title to any of it regardless of whether she divorced him because he committed adultery or was abusive etc.

It was so unfair in those days i must say. The chapter of the book that defined this moment was when Heathcliff forced Cathy to marry Linton (her cousin) so that all her property would fall under Linton's name, and since Linton was terminally ill, all his property would in turn become the property of Heathcliff. It's a cruel system seeing how the law blantantly disregarded women's rights in those days. But yes, that's what i learnt - the real gritty past of English laws.

And here i thought i was just going to read a romance novel.

The beginning was a bit slow but it picked up well. It seemed like everybody was sick and that Wuthering Heights was a gloomy place and wet and miserable but apart from that, the story was interesting.

Verdict: 4/5

posted by MissDixie @ 6:53 pm