The Lintons take Cathy in to care for her and Heathcliff is ordered to leave the Grange. After climbing the garden wall, Cathy is attacked by a dog. One night, Cathy and Heathcliff are out when they discover the Earnshaws' neighbors, the Lintons, giving a party at the Grange. Some eight to ten years later, the now adult pair have fallen in love and are meeting secretly on Penniston's Crag. Earnshaw dies and a resentful Hindley forces him to become one of the family's servants.ĭespite Heathcliff's new status within the Earnshaw family, his close relationship with Cathy remains close. Heathcliff's pleasant life with the Earnshaw family ends when Mr. While Cathy immediately befriends Heathcliff, Hindley becomes jealous of his father and sister's high regard of the newcomer. Earnshaw introducing Heathcliff to his family - Cathy and her brother, Hindley - at Wuthering Heights. Brontë's novel, I have always been reluctant to watch any of the television or movie adaptations, with the exception of one - the 1939 movie produced by Samuel Goldwyn.ĭirected by William Wyler, and starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier 'WUTHERING HEIGHTS' told the story of the passionate and doomed love story between one Catherine Earnshaw, the daughter of a Yorkshire landowner and an orphaned Gypsy boy named Heathcliff. Due to my less-than-enthusiastic regard for Ms. But the heavy barrage of emotional and physical abuse, revenge, and over-the-top passion has always seemed a bit too much for me. I have nothing against works of fiction laced with tragedy. For some reason, 'Wuthering Heights' depresses the hell out of me.

I do not dislike it, but I have always preferred the famous novels of the author's two sisters - namely 'Jane Eyre' (1847) by Charlotte Brontë and Anne Brontë's 1848 novel, 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'. I discovered there have been at least fifteen (15) adaptations of Emily Brontë's 1847 novel, 'Wuthering Heights'. Considering the popularity of the Brontë sisters, it is not surprising that there have been considerable movie, stage and television adaptations of their novels.

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