Mary Jensen Final Post

Although both Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice deserve immense recognition for their complex plots and deep romances, Bronte’s novel should be discussed in classes more. Pride and Prejudice, however, is an amazing romantic novel full of plot and intriguing character problems; yet, this novel could be read alone, without the help of a mentor highlighting important literary parts of the novel. Wuthering Heights, on the other hand, is not so easy to understand. Bronte is genius in making the novel “through a number of persons’ eyes” as Goldstone points out; yet, this complex plot makes the novel hard to read. Although this novel might be confusing, it is known that it “has an almost monumental simplicity…that makes it a very moving novel.” Although unlike Pride and Prejudice, Wuthering Heights does not extensively teach of challenges to society or how social classes have changed, it is an important literary novel and is essential for students of the novel to understand. Bronte’s novel teaches of different kinds of love, as Goldstone points out, which is very appealing to high school girls to learn more about. Not only is it appealing, but it is crucial for eleventh grade girls to learn about these kinds of love. To the students, it is necessary for this novel to be a “moving novel”, and unlike Pride and Prejudice which already makes an impact on the reader in a romantic way, Wuthering Heights needs an explanation by a professional to fully understand the perfection of difficulty that Bronte creates in this novel.

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Works Cited:

Goldstone, Herbert. "Wuthering Heights Revisited." The English Journal XLVIII (1959):

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