BLOG ENTRY: 2B

The reading so far is going well. I was struggling with the English but I managed to understand. The main character is heathcliff. He is an orphan brought to live in Wuthering heights. He was raised by Mr. Earnshaw, who really loved heathcliff. This made his son very jealous, therefore tried to make his life hell, when his father died. Earshaw’s daughter falls in love with heathcliff and they are inseparable. Later on in the book, Heathcliff is powerful and fierce because he tried everything to seek revenge for the people who causes him grief and made his life miserable. Heathclifff is considered complicated because it’s hard to know whether he is mean and cruel or if he it’s just the way to express his sadness and frustrations. The major theme of the book so far is revenge. After Earshaws death, Hindley takes over Wuthering heights and makes heathcliff work in the fields and stop education. He treated him badly because he never liked him and he was so jealous of him when his father first brought him home. But then heathcliff goes away and when he comes back, he had his plan to seek revenge too. Another theme possible could be the intense love between heathcliff and Catherine. This love is what shaped the book and made Heathlicliff seek revenge more when she married Edgar. Another theme is the all the differences in the societies. Catherine made a speech to Nelly saying: “It would degrade me to marry Heathcliff now; so he shall never know how I love him; and that, not because he’s handsome, Nelly, but because he’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same, and [Edgar’s] is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.”("Wuthering Heights. New York: 1847. Print.)This shows the social differences, because if she marries Heathcliff it’s going to be a social disgrace but marrying Edgar would make her a powerful and respected woman. I predict that Wuthering heights is going to end with Nelly’s story coming to an end. I hope the story will have heathcliff seeking revenge but maybe run away with Catherine even though she’s married, but we will see what’s really going to happen. I am enjoying the book because of all the drama and of all the things happening one after the other. I’m sure there is not going to be a happy ending, so I’m excited to read the rest of the book.