![]() Heathcliff also takes revenge on his former tormentor Hindley, Catherine’s brother. The open conflict between Heathcliff and Edgar eventually kills Catherine she dies after giving birth to her child. ![]() To take revenge on Edgar, Heathcliff marries Edgar’s sister Isabella against his will, only to make her life hell. ![]() ![]() When Catherine marries the wealthier Edgar Linton, she sets in motion a chain of events which make the tale grimmer with every page. Although Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff feel that they are soul mates, the difference in social rank forbids their marriage. Two children grow up together in the bleak and solitary moorlands of the English north. The story is one of all-consuming love, burning hate, violence and human cruelty. “Wuthering Heights” shows the extreme feelings of which human beings are capable. ![]() When, with the publication of a new edition in 1850, it turns out that the author is a woman, public outrage still intensifies. The novel and its characters, it is said, were too wild, too unruly, too passionate, and conveyed an unconventional or even no sense of morality at all. When Emily Brontë’s novel “Wuthering Heights” is published under the pseudonym Ellis Bell in 1847, it is predominantly met with rejection and discussed as highly controversial in Victorian society. Manesse Bibliothek der Weltliteratur, published in 1949 ![]()
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