Talk:Wuthering Heights/@comment-41.212.129.98-20100531114006

Ok i can admit that Edward is comparable to Heathcliff in that they are both obsessed with their loved ones. Heathcliff worships Cathy; she is his world and he was born the day he met her as a child. When Cathy died, Heathcliff doomed her; he cursed her soul; telling her that she will have to wander on earth and haunt him till the day he joins her in death. Heathcliff and Edward are also both shunned by society. You know what is beautiful about the book? you despise each character because you find them either too cruel, egocentric or weak and then you cry for them because you realise that beneath these aspects, lies their suffering. It's also the kind of story which would normally divert your attention easily, because many pages are spent over secondary characters(which are finally not so secondary) and it's still thrilling because it's about PASSION - passion of the hearts - violence - vulgarity - drinking - bestiality (everything that is vile) and then, in this world of filth, you find moments where those fiends seem to be more human, more noble... sometimes i wonder why jane Eyre is more popular than wuthering heights...