About the Novel
Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is a complex story with love and revenge, violence, influence and passion. Throughout the story we follow the story of Heathcliff, an orphan gypsy boy who grows up to always looking for revenge after not getting the women he loves, Catherine. There are many characters influenced by one another, such as the influence Heathcliff has on Hareton, who sees Heathcliff as a father figure. After many years of working to get revenge on the people he once knew, Heathcliff lives a regretful life of what could have been.
We even watched a film based of Wuthering Heights, for me details about it, click the link button.
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One of the assignments we had to do was create a poster of Heathcliff and someone he had a relationship with.
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Film or Novel?
When reading a book, you imagine the characters and setting in your own way. The author must put the time and effort into making sure their readers can easily visualize and understand everything throughout the story they have created. But that can all be ruined when someone decides to create a movie based on the book, sometimes ruining the image you already had in your mind. Movies based on books tend only keep the important parts of the story, cutting out other parts that could have been special to the readers.
A great example of this is the film we watched in class based on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. I personally found some major flaws throughout the film. A big problem throughout the film is that the characters personality just couldn't reach the expectations of what I had already had in my mind, and maybe the same for others. Cathy wasn’t rude or mean to Hareton instead was more helpful and kind, Linton seemed more quiet instead of a whiny brat, and some of the character's personality is expressed through violence, which was not seen in the film. Characters have their own personality which adds to the plot and even conflicts which occur and when you take that away, it just doesn’t have the same effect. Now, movies based on books tend only keep the important parts of the story, cutting out other parts that could have been special to the readers. For example, Lockwood wasn’t even in the film. Lockwood is a big part of the story to me personally, it’s because of his presents at the Wuthering Heights in which we get to read about Heathcliff’s life story. Maybe the director just thought Lockwood wouldn’t need to be in the film. Finally, the order in which events happen were completely out of order compared to the book. In the film you didn’t get a chance to be with the characters at a young age, and watch them grow up and create a connection with them. Changing the original plot into a different order can put people off.
Everything that was changed to create the film just doesn’t give the same effect that reading the book would have done. So I leave the question, why make the story come to life with a movie, when it’s already alive with people’s imagination?
When reading a book, you imagine the characters and setting in your own way. The author must put the time and effort into making sure their readers can easily visualize and understand everything throughout the story they have created. But that can all be ruined when someone decides to create a movie based on the book, sometimes ruining the image you already had in your mind. Movies based on books tend only keep the important parts of the story, cutting out other parts that could have been special to the readers.
A great example of this is the film we watched in class based on Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. I personally found some major flaws throughout the film. A big problem throughout the film is that the characters personality just couldn't reach the expectations of what I had already had in my mind, and maybe the same for others. Cathy wasn’t rude or mean to Hareton instead was more helpful and kind, Linton seemed more quiet instead of a whiny brat, and some of the character's personality is expressed through violence, which was not seen in the film. Characters have their own personality which adds to the plot and even conflicts which occur and when you take that away, it just doesn’t have the same effect. Now, movies based on books tend only keep the important parts of the story, cutting out other parts that could have been special to the readers. For example, Lockwood wasn’t even in the film. Lockwood is a big part of the story to me personally, it’s because of his presents at the Wuthering Heights in which we get to read about Heathcliff’s life story. Maybe the director just thought Lockwood wouldn’t need to be in the film. Finally, the order in which events happen were completely out of order compared to the book. In the film you didn’t get a chance to be with the characters at a young age, and watch them grow up and create a connection with them. Changing the original plot into a different order can put people off.
Everything that was changed to create the film just doesn’t give the same effect that reading the book would have done. So I leave the question, why make the story come to life with a movie, when it’s already alive with people’s imagination?
Emily Bronte and Her Sisters
Emily Bronte is best known for being the author of the novel Wuthering Heights and being the sister of Charlotte and Anne Bronte, also well known authors. Some of Emily's earliest known works involved a fictional world called Gondal, which she created with her sister Anne. Anne wrote both prose and poems about this imaginary place and its inhabitants, while Emily also wrote some poems. Their sister Charlotte discovered some of Emily's poems and sought to publish them along with her own work and some by Anne. The three sisters used male pen names for their collection, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The book was published in 1846 but unfortunately only sold few copies and gained little attention. In December of 1847, Emily published her more complex and more defining work, Wuthering Heights still under the name Ellis Bell.
At first, reviewers did not know what to make of Wuthering Heights, Emily’s only published novel. It was only after Emily's death that the book developed its reputation as a literary masterwork. She died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1848, and soon after in May, Anne also fell ill and died of the same disease.
Emily Bronte had a strong bond with her sisters that helped her lead to having a great, well-known novel today. Do you think if it wasn’t for her sister’s influence she would been able to create Wuthering Heights?
Emily Bronte is best known for being the author of the novel Wuthering Heights and being the sister of Charlotte and Anne Bronte, also well known authors. Some of Emily's earliest known works involved a fictional world called Gondal, which she created with her sister Anne. Anne wrote both prose and poems about this imaginary place and its inhabitants, while Emily also wrote some poems. Their sister Charlotte discovered some of Emily's poems and sought to publish them along with her own work and some by Anne. The three sisters used male pen names for their collection, Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell. The book was published in 1846 but unfortunately only sold few copies and gained little attention. In December of 1847, Emily published her more complex and more defining work, Wuthering Heights still under the name Ellis Bell.
At first, reviewers did not know what to make of Wuthering Heights, Emily’s only published novel. It was only after Emily's death that the book developed its reputation as a literary masterwork. She died of tuberculosis on December 19, 1848, and soon after in May, Anne also fell ill and died of the same disease.
Emily Bronte had a strong bond with her sisters that helped her lead to having a great, well-known novel today. Do you think if it wasn’t for her sister’s influence she would been able to create Wuthering Heights?
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