How can someone even exist being so cruel?
That was my reaction when I read first scene from this book which shaken me up.
Then I was like,
Just keep reading, Just keep reading like Dory from Finding Nemo. Expecting something good will happen in the end. and what?
I cant believe I even decided to read this crap book, I hated it...I hated every character of it. Hated the way they were behaving with each others and with themselves.
Well it is a love story, of two extremely selfish people. And the man is so freaking psychopath that he turns onto the family which took him in when he was an orphan and lost. He behaves so recklessly when he is of age and grabs everything of the family ever own. He becomes the ghost probably after his death as if he lived an saint life before. I can not say anyone ever frighten me this much before from a book than Mr. Heathcliff.
Its not only the way he acts, there's something demonic about him. He traps people in his sweet talks and then makes them do what he wants them to do. Whatever he did I can not at all accept, was for the love of his life. And the only soft spot he ever had was for his dead lover. Damn you... :(
At first few times I wanted to stop reading it because I couldn't read it with the sort of violence it had, but then I felt as if maybe I have gone too soft hearted after reading whole sophisticated stories, and at some point I need to face reality. So I kept going on, to find a golden line to the reckless cloud of raging storm. But none... None at all. Wasnt worth it...
I have read three classics now Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering heights all from English classics. and I guess I feel as there is something very deep to understand with the society they lived in. We would not speak such language as of magnanimity, trepidation, bereavement... But they would have direct philosophical conversation as if they are asking whether you had dinner or tea. What appeals to me more is that how could people speak in such difficult thought process in just few seconds. There are values, morality, ethics, behavioral traits everywhere in their conversations.
We speak about these things in certain scenario now a days, we need lectures or specific people to talk about morals and values or specific environment to speak about them. At first I would get annoyed as well as why do they have to talk so difficult about everything. But it seems a luxury in today's world when we do not have time neither ears to listen to values and morals everyday, every minute.
Perhaps that is the one thing I have learn so far in my expedition of classic literature.
As time has changed but our concepts still stay the same, hidden and ignored among the time layers, we might have used our time of the whole day for the important chores and have forgotten how to still keep in touch with our inner self, but its still there.
Morality, Upbringing, Manners, Education, Values, Love, Sensibility... Its still there. Just wrapped up in a different styles, and hidden somewhere deep beneath.
To Wuthering Heights. The book I hated after a long time... :P
That was my reaction when I read first scene from this book which shaken me up.
Then I was like,
Just keep reading, Just keep reading like Dory from Finding Nemo. Expecting something good will happen in the end. and what?
I cant believe I even decided to read this crap book, I hated it...I hated every character of it. Hated the way they were behaving with each others and with themselves.
Well it is a love story, of two extremely selfish people. And the man is so freaking psychopath that he turns onto the family which took him in when he was an orphan and lost. He behaves so recklessly when he is of age and grabs everything of the family ever own. He becomes the ghost probably after his death as if he lived an saint life before. I can not say anyone ever frighten me this much before from a book than Mr. Heathcliff.
Its not only the way he acts, there's something demonic about him. He traps people in his sweet talks and then makes them do what he wants them to do. Whatever he did I can not at all accept, was for the love of his life. And the only soft spot he ever had was for his dead lover. Damn you... :(
At first few times I wanted to stop reading it because I couldn't read it with the sort of violence it had, but then I felt as if maybe I have gone too soft hearted after reading whole sophisticated stories, and at some point I need to face reality. So I kept going on, to find a golden line to the reckless cloud of raging storm. But none... None at all. Wasnt worth it...
I have read three classics now Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering heights all from English classics. and I guess I feel as there is something very deep to understand with the society they lived in. We would not speak such language as of magnanimity, trepidation, bereavement... But they would have direct philosophical conversation as if they are asking whether you had dinner or tea. What appeals to me more is that how could people speak in such difficult thought process in just few seconds. There are values, morality, ethics, behavioral traits everywhere in their conversations.
We speak about these things in certain scenario now a days, we need lectures or specific people to talk about morals and values or specific environment to speak about them. At first I would get annoyed as well as why do they have to talk so difficult about everything. But it seems a luxury in today's world when we do not have time neither ears to listen to values and morals everyday, every minute.
Perhaps that is the one thing I have learn so far in my expedition of classic literature.
As time has changed but our concepts still stay the same, hidden and ignored among the time layers, we might have used our time of the whole day for the important chores and have forgotten how to still keep in touch with our inner self, but its still there.
Morality, Upbringing, Manners, Education, Values, Love, Sensibility... Its still there. Just wrapped up in a different styles, and hidden somewhere deep beneath.
To Wuthering Heights. The book I hated after a long time... :P
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