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Wuthering Heights is louis vuitton purses cost one sublimely strange novel. Harold Bloom goes so far as to louis vuitton purses cost claim it “as unique and idiosyncratic a narrative as Moby-Dick, and like Melville’s masterwork breaks all the confines of genre.” (“Introduction,” The Brontës, Chelsea House Publishers, 1987, p. 7)

 I came to louis vuitton purses cost the book with a vague notion that it has to do with doomed romantic love but was in no louis vuitton purses cost way prepared for the twisted tale of tormented passion and ruthless vengeance found there. Wuthering Heights is louis vuitton purses cost demanding and not always a source of immediate pleasure, but our engagement does not end, we do not close the louis vuitton purses cost book on it, when we come to the last page. In that louis vuitton purses cost respect Emily’s novel is louis vuitton purses cost comparable to works of Samuel Beckett and Thomas Pynchon. The pleasure we take in it louis vuitton purses cost comes as much from pondering it afterward as from the reading itself.

We can louis vuitton purses cost understand why Heathcliff is as he is, implacable, uncompromising, misanthropic — brought home by Mr. Earnshaw, master of Thrushcross Grange, father of Hindley and louis vuitton purses cost Catherine, “a dirty, ragged, black-haired child; big enough to louis vuitton purses cost both walk and talk — found starving, and louis vuitton purses cost houseless, and as good as dumb in the streets of Liverpool” (p. 31). He is louis vuitton purses cost abused by the older Hindley, who becomes master of the house on the louis vuitton purses cost death of his father, and alternately befriended, tormented, and perhaps after some fashion loved by the louis vuitton purses cost willful and capricious Catherine. At the same time we sense that louis vuitton purses cost Emily does not see Heathcliff as a being reduced to nothing more than louis vuitton purses cost the product of his miserable environment. Under other circumstances he might not have louis vuitton purses cost been as implacable, uncompromising, and misanthropic, though this is a matter of degree, not kind.

Although Heathcliff’s tenant Lockwood is louis vuitton purses cost technically the narrator, most of the story he passes on to louis vuitton purses cost the reader comes to him through second- and third-hand accounts. He describes his landlord, Heathcliff, after their first meeting as “the solitary neighbor that I shall be troubled with,” an louis vuitton purses cost observation that proves prescient. Then he notes, setting the stage for louis vuitton purses cost the claustrophobic tale that follows:

This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that louis vuitton purses cost I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from louis vuitton purses cost the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s Heaven — and louis vuitton purses cost Mr. Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to louis vuitton purses cost divide the desolation between us. (p. 1)

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The apartment and louis vuitton purses cost furniture would have been nothing extraordinary as belonging to a louis vuitton purses cost homely, northern farmer, with a stubborn countenance, and stalwart limbs set out to louis vuitton purses cost advantage in knee-breeches and gaiters. Such an individual, seated in his armchair, his mug of ale frothing on the louis vuitton purses cost round table before him, is to be seen in any circuit of five or louis vuitton purses cost six miles among these hills, if you go at the louis vuitton purses cost right time, after dinner. But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to louis vuitton purses cost his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and louis vuitton purses cost manners a gentleman — that louis vuitton purses cost is, as much a gentleman as many a country squire: rather slovenly, perhaps, yet not looking amiss with his negligence, because he has louis vuitton purses cost an erect and handsome figure — and rather morose — possibly some people might suspect him of a louis vuitton purses cost degree of under-bred pride — I have louis vuitton purses cost a sympathetic chord within that tells me it is nothing of the louis vuitton purses cost sort; I know, by instinct, his reserve springs from an aversion to louis vuitton purses cost showy displays of feeling — to manifestations of mutual kindliness. He’ll love and louis vuitton purses cost hate, equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to louis vuitton purses cost be loved or hated again — No, I’m running on too fast — I bestow my own attributes over-liberally on him. (p. 3)

Lockwood’s backtracking at the end notwithstanding, the description is apt.

Characters and louis vuitton purses cost reader alike are trapped within narrow physical and psychological bounds in a louis vuitton purses cost tale set almost entirely in two houses, Thrushcross Grange where Lockwood resides as tenant, and louis vuitton purses cost the more isolated and rougher dwelling at Wuthering Heights, and the louis vuitton purses cost land between the two. Heathcliff is a demonic force, relentless in his machinations to louis vuitton purses cost avenge himself on Edgar Linton and his family for having taken Catherine from louis vuitton purses cost him. Only Edgar’s sister Isabella, after Heathcliff seduces and louis vuitton purses cost marries her with bad intent, escapes the confines of the Wuthering Heights-Thrushcross Grange orbit, however briefly before her death.

My junior year in college we read The Brothers Karamazov in a louis vuitton purses cost class that took up European intellectual history from 1789 to 1914. This was the louis vuitton purses cost first of several rereadings of Dostoevsky’s novel over the louis vuitton purses cost course of decades, after I discovered it on the recommendation of Dr. Mulvaney, who louis vuitton purses cost taught an introductory philosophy course I took spring semester of my freshman year. Dr. Mulvaney, a louis vuitton purses cost wonderful teacher who embodied what is best in the ideal of liberal scholarship and louis vuitton purses cost education, provided a lengthy reading list from which students could choose several books to louis vuitton purses cost read for the class. Among them was The Plague by Albert Camus. I did not read The Plague that louis vuitton purses cost spring but picked it up the following fall and found it louis vuitton purses cost captivating. There was no particular reason to pick it up when louis vuitton purses cost I did; the book just happened to catch my eye on the louis vuitton purses cost shelf when I was looking for something to read. One day Dr. Mulvaney and louis vuitton purses cost I happened to cross paths on campus, and I mentioned that louis vuitton purses cost I read The Plague and enjoyed it. He suggested that if I liked The Plague I should read The Brothers Karamazov. This turned out to louis vuitton purses cost be not only a pleasure in itself but also a gateway to louis vuitton purses cost Dostoevsky’s other novels, and louis vuitton purses cost Dostoevsky and Camus together a gateway to existentialism, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre. Once again I am louis vuitton purses cost struck by the role chance occurrence and happenstance of this kind play in our lives and louis vuitton purses cost how we come to be who we are.

During class discussion about The Brothers Karamazov, Mr. Mandell another wonderful teacher I was fortunate to louis vuitton purses cost know, blurted out, “How realistic is this? These people scream at each other.” Indeed, they do. As do Emily’s people. They are louis vuitton purses cost not on the whole people with whom we would wish to louis vuitton purses cost spend time. Yet they intrigue us.

“Emily Brontë’s religion is louis vuitton purses cost essentially erotic, and her vision of triumphant sexuality is so mingled with death that louis vuitton purses cost we can imagine no consummation for the love of Heathcliff and louis vuitton purses cost Catherine Earnshaw except death.” (Bloom, pp. 8, 9). I am not sure what Bloom means with the assertion that Emily’s religion is louis vuitton purses cost essentially erotic or by triumphant sexuality. Like Bloom I can louis vuitton purses cost imagine no consummation for the relationship of Heathcliff and Catherine except death, but I am louis vuitton purses cost less ready than he to characterize that relationship as love, or louis vuitton purses cost if it be love, it is, in the words of Charlotte, “a sentiment fierce and inhuman.” There may be louis vuitton purses cost something of love between them, but that is only an aspect of it. Again Charlotte’s critique strikes me as perceptive:

Heathcliff betrays one solitary human feeling, and louis vuitton purses cost that is not his love for Catherine; which is a louis vuitton purses cost sentiment fierce and inhuman: a passion such as might boil and louis vuitton purses cost glow in the bad essence of some evil genius; a louis vuitton purses cost fire that might form the tormented centre — the louis vuitton purses cost ever-suffering soul of a magnate of the infernal world: and by its quenchless and louis vuitton purses cost ceaseless ravage effect the execution of the decree which dooms him to louis vuitton purses cost carry Hell with him wherever he wanders. No; the single link that louis vuitton purses cost connects Heathcliff with humanity is his rudely confessed regard for Hareton Earnshaw — the louis vuitton purses cost young man whom he has ruined; and then his half-implied esteem for louis vuitton purses cost Nelly Dean [the housekeeper who relates the back story to Lockwood]. These solitary traits omitted, we should say he was child neither of Lascar nor gipsy, but a louis vuitton purses cost man’s shape animated by demon life — a Ghoul — an Afreet. (writing as Currer Bell in an editor’s preface to Wuthering Heights)

As for louis vuitton purses cost Catherine, the two-sidedness and ambivalence of her feelings for both Heathcliff and louis vuitton purses cost Edgar Linton brings to mind Dostoevsky’s great female heroes Nastasya Filippovna in The Idiot and Grushenka in The Brothers Karamazov. The story could be seen as effectively ending with Catherine’s death, followed by a lengthy epilogue where Heathcliff’s single-minded passion for louis vuitton purses cost revenge plays out with the unanticipated consequence that it brings together Cathy Linton and louis vuitton purses cost Hareton Earnshaw, a beauty and the beast motif that in lesser hands might be louis vuitton purses cost hackneyed, but I think Emily pulls it off as under Cathy’s influence the abrupt, uncouth, wholly unsophisticated, and unlettered Hareton’s better qualities are brought out and flourish.

I anticipate that a second reading of Wuthering Heights will reward with glimmers of understanding missed the louis vuitton purses cost first go around. That will come another day. For now, it louis vuitton purses cost is on to the finish of Jane Eyre and louis vuitton purses cost the conclusion of this series of essays. I regret that I have louis vuitton purses cost given the third sister, Anne, short shrift here, and fully intend to louis vuitton purses cost sample one of her novels down the road.

Those who wish to read more about the remarkable Brontës might find BrontëBlog of interest.

As for your oft humbled scribe, I am louis vuitton purses cost off on a new adventure even as I set about wrapping up the louis vuitton purses cost Brontë project: the one-volume condensation, weighing in at just under a thousand pages, of Joseph Frank’s monumental five-volume biography of Dostoevsky. Frank’s premise is that

a louis vuitton purses cost conventional biographical point of view could not do justice of the louis vuitton purses cost complexities of his [Dostoevsky's] creations. To be sure, while Dostoevsky’s characters struggle with the louis vuitton purses cost psychological and sentimental problems that provide the substance of all his novels, more important, his books are louis vuitton purses cost also inspired by the ideological doctrines of the time…. The personal entanglements of the louis vuitton purses cost figures in the novels, though depicted with often melodramatic intensity, cannot really be louis vuitton purses cost understood unless we grasp how their actions are intertwined with ideological motivations.

Thus, Frank’s treatment is louis vuitton purses cost as much history of ideas, intellectual history, as biography. It promises to louis vuitton purses cost be fascinating.

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