Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 1847 CE · Novel · English · Victorian

A farmer brings home a foundling, Heathcliff, who grows up bound to the daughter of the house and despised by her brother. Her decision to marry elsewhere sets off a campaign of revenge that runs through two households and two generations. Love told as a destroying force that outlasts the body.

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• parallels ↑ Jane Eyre
  Charlotte Brontë · 1847 CE · Novel
• ↓ Wuthering Heights
  William Wyler · 1939 CE · Film — adapts this
• ↓ Guerrillas
  V. S. Naipaul · 1975 CE · Novel — alludes to this

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• Wuthering Heights
  William Wyler · 1939 CE · Film

  63% · 15 shared
  GothicRomanceTragedyForbidden LoveJustice & RevengeClass & InequalityByronic HeroFrame NarrativeTragic ReversalThe StormThe Wildernessvs SocietyGothicRomanticTragic
• Isabella, or the Pot of Basil
  John Keats · 1820 CE · Poem

  53% · 14 shared
  GothicRomanceTragedyForbidden LoveJustice & RevengeClass & InequalityTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)A Belovedvs SocietyGothicRomanticTragicEnglish
• The Sorrows of Young Werther
  Goethe · 1774 CE · Novel

  49% · 14 shared
  NovelRomanceTragedyForbidden LoveDeath & MortalityByronic HeroLoverTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)A Belovedvs Societyvs SelfRomanticTragic
• Layla and Majnun
  Nizami Ganjavi · c. 1188 CE · Poem

  49% · 13 shared
  RomanceTragedyForbidden LoveDeath & MortalityLoverTragic ReversalFall (Tragedy)A BelovedThe Wildernessvs Societyvs SelfRomanticTragic
• Anna Karenina
  Leo Tolstoy · 1877 CE · Novel

  48% · 13 shared
  NovelRomanceTragedyForbidden LoveClass & InequalityDeath & MortalityVictorianLoverTragic ReversalA Belovedvs Societyvs SelfTragic
• Weir of Hermiston
  R. L. Stevenson · 1896 CE · Novel

  47% · 14 shared
  NovelRomanceTragedyForbidden LoveJustice & RevengeVictorianLoverTragic ReversalThe Wildernessvs Societyvs SelfRomanticTragicEnglish