Wuthering Heights Favs

For this blog I am going to write all of my favorites about Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The different categories I chose were favorite characters, favorite scenes and favorite quote. My favorite character in this novel would have to be Ellen (Nelly) Dean. I chose her because she was telling the story and was an awesome person. Nelly was kind, loving, and knew how to treat others right. When Hareton was born, Hindley gave him to Nelly for her to take care of. She practically raised him. One of my favorite scenes in the novel is when Catherine and Heathcliff went to Thrushcross Grange to spy on Edgar and Isabella. "We thought we would just go and see whether the Lintons passed their Sunday evenings standing shivering in the corners." (Bronte 47) They were almost successful until the Linton's guard dog, Skulker, was let loose. Skulker chased after them and bit Catherine's ankle, which caused her to have to stay at Thrushcross Grange for five weeks. My favorite line in Wuthering Heights is "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 Linton's is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire." (Bronte 80) I like this quote because it shows that Catherine is struggling with love because she loves both Heathcliff and Edgar. Even though Edgar is better for her, her true love is Heathcliff, whom she could never have.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. New York: Random House, 1943. Print.