Wuthering Heights

I have got a very interesting subject this semester. Yep it is all about the novels. I have got four novels to study in this semester apart from other subjects and believe me there are a whole lot of other subjects like Indian English Poetry and Indian English Prose and Literary Criticism and many others. The four novels are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens and Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. So I am currently reading Wuthering Heights and i wonder why the hell i did not read it before. I finished ten chapters yesterday and i just can't put it down. Heathcliff has run away from Wuthering Heights and Mrs. Dean is testing my patience leaving the narration in the middle of nowhere. I can imagine what Mr. Lockwood must be going through.
The novel is a tad bit different from the other novels that i have read because we see the world through Mr. Lockwood's eyes and how he interprets it. When i started reading it I was confused when Mrs. Heathcliff is shown sitting, who by the way is Mr. Heathcliff's daughter-in-law. I had to go over that chapter twice to understand who was that young lady and the lad. Then when Mrs. Dean narrates the story, things start becoming a bit clearer and though, i am yet to finish the novel, I am fully capable of making a family chart of the Earnshaws and Lintons.
I am thoroughly enjoying reading it and just can't put it down because I am so into it. It's like being there in the sitting room of Wuthering Heights and seeing all the drama unfold before my eyes.
It also has some horror elements with the weather and the dream that Mr. Lockwood had when he spent a night in Wuthering Heights because of the storm. [I love when some mystery and horror elements creep up in novels. As a result my summer project was based on The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole which was the first ever Gothic novel written in the history of English Literature. I also love S.T. Coleridge for his poems are soaked in mystery and horror.]

I hope that i finish this novel in another day or two because i have my mid-semesters exams probably at the end of September.
I can't believe that i can't seem to have any time for reading novels. I also have to write my term paper on Robinson Crusoe on which i am doing a Post-Colonial study. I have so much to read and you people won't believe but apart from two or three novels that i must read at any cost if i have to sail through this semester, i have twenty other novels on my 'To Read List'. God only knows how i will manage to read them.

Do tell me about your views about Wuthering Heights if you have read it or any of the other classic novels.
Love,
The Bibliophagist

P.S. - The quote is by Catherine Earnshaw ( the lady love of Heathcliff) when she confesses her love for Heathcliff to the servant Mrs. Dean after having given her word to Edgar Linton for marriage. Phew! Complicated right? I thought so too.


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                           The quote is from pinterest.com