written artwork - wuthering heights

You know those people that are just drama? Every choice they make in some way makes the drama in their lives breed like rabbits. Nothing is ever simple. And usually, to others everything looks immature and irresponsible. Well, at least to me it does, and I simply choose to take myself out of the life of these people. I just can't handle it.

For this reason, my first reaction to this book is that it was pretty pointless. I love drama within a novel when it comes in different forms. When life situations get hard and a person has to survive. When love is unexpected and difficult to grapple with. When society is headed the wrong direction. I do not, however, love drama in a novel when it seems to only come from the stupid choices of the characters.

There are not many happy moments in Wurthering Heights. This simply because the characters are either immature, greedy, or cold-hearted. You feel like you are in a downward spiral into a life and emotional state that you just don't want to be in. Again, there are many depressing books that I actually enjoy and feel as though the plot is excellently pulled together. However, this just felt like all of those 'drama' people I encounter in my day to day life. I found myself wanting to say "Grow up! Get over it! Calm down!" But they wouldn't listen. They wouldn't listen.

Despite it all, I am still grateful for Emily Bronte's novel. Any book that leaves you with a few thoughtful moments is well worth it. I was able to use the story line to analyze some people and relationships in my own life. Even if the emotions are visceral, at least there were emotions. And for that I stand behind Wuthering Heights.


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My Written Artwork Journey Explained

1. Animal Farm - George Orwell
2. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
3. Emma - Jane Austen
4. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
5. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams
6. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
7. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
8. Frankenstein - Mary Shelley
9. The Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
10. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
11. Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell
    
12. Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller
13. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
14. The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne
15. The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
16. Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
17. Pickwick Papers - Charles Dickens
18. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
19. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger
20. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
21. Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
22. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
23. Slaughterhouse-Five - Kurt Vonnegut
24. The sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
25. Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
26. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
27. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
28. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
29. Little Woman - Louisa Ma Alcott
30. Crime and Punishment - Fedor Dostoyevsky
31. Watership Down - Richard Adams
32. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak
33. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
34. Alls Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque
35. Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
36. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
37. The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane
38. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
39. Tales - Edgar Allan Poe
40. Diary of a Madman and Other Stories - Nikolai Gogol
41. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
42. A Farewell To Arms - Ernest Hemingway
43. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen