Wuthering Heights

My outside reading book, "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Bronte, can be hard to understand. At the beginning of this book I was absolutely lost. I had no idea what was happening. I thought this novel would be a boring read, but my prediction has turned out all wrong. From bovine to interesting in just a few pages, this book has already gained a new appeal of interest from me. Suddenly I am hooked, what is going to happen between Heathcliff and Catherine? Where did Heathcliff go? What is this strange families dynamics?

This setting speak a lot to me. Why are they isolated out in the middle on nowhere? I know that was common in the old days, but I would be depressed. If my social life consisted only of my crazy, mean family, a few servants, and the polite people at church I would not see the reason for living. What makes it worse is that they aren't just isolated they're ISOLATED. They live 60 miles from the city. Talk about being totally alone. At first I did't realize how large their property is but as I have delved deeper into the book I'm starting to get a feel that it was bigger than I imagined. I think this is the perfect setting for Catherine and Heathcliff. They are both wild souls, destined for freedom of their expected life tasks. They're physical boundaries of land are so big, and yet they always stretch the zone, for example when they went to thrushcross grange. I think the setting of their domicile is almost an anology of how greedy and selfish they were. They had so much room to move about and yet they still wanted more. Catherine has a loving, devoted husband and yet she still wants Heathcliff. 

I think this story is similar "Cinderalla Story" with Hillary Duff. In each artistic endeavor status controls the decisions. In "Wuthering Heights" Catherine feels as though she must marry Edward Linton because she wants to keep a family name and also stay rich. In "Cinderella Story" because the main character, Sam(played by Hillary Duff), isn't popular she feels as though she isn't good enough for the guy she has feelings for. I think Sam and Heathcliff are quite similar, both are "adopted" into situations and treated cruelly because of their backgrounds, both are treated as servants. They also both have feelings for the beautiful. Heathcliff for Catherine, and Sam for Austyn. Even as far back as the 1800's "Popularity" still gave major complications for relationships. Edward was more "popular" so he got the girl, while Sam wasn't popular she did't feel good enough for the guy.

For my creative project I would like to make a movie. In it we will include the important elements like setting, theme, characterization ect. A few of my less thought out ideas include showing how an opposite decision could've completely altered the story. For instance if Catherine had decided not to marry Mr. Linton, or how had Catherine not spied on Thrushcross Grange she might have never even developed a relationship with Edward Linton. Another idea was finding a few important themes and illustrate them through similar current examples. I thought it would also be fun to contrast and compare then and now, yet how people usually turn out the same or different; the process of evolution through new inventions.