Wuthering Heights
Steve Howard reports from High Down on Emily Bronte’s Image courtesy of Matthew Meadows Wuthering Heights: Wuthering Heights was the first and only novel by Emily Brontë, published when she was 29. She died the following year. … The big questions were raised: is Heathcliffethe embodiment of evil; and if so, is this due tohis nature or a result of his upbringing? Thegroup agreed Heathcliff was a ‘Machiavellianbeing’, as Miles put it, but the jury was still out by the end on the whether nature or nurturewas to blame. … The discussion of Wuthering Heights continuedinto the following fortnight’s meeting, andonly partly due to the lockdown in the firstone. The novel might not be for everyone, asthe style is certainly difficult at first and thestructure of the book is complicated – anedition with a family tree at the front is useful!But stick with it and you may find it stimulatesas much debate and enjoyment as it did forthe High Down group.
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