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Old Dec 28, 2014, 09:56 PM
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Art - can you explain what it is that you find so compelling about WH?
Why of course! There's just such power in the love between cathy and heathcliff, the depth of their characters, I love Ellen too, even when she doesn't want to she loves Cathy, I really feel connected to the stark beauty of the moors and that house as opposed to the elegance of thrushcross grange, i love cathy's struggle between her wildness and her need for a fancier life. I love to hate Edgar and Isabel. I love how C and H seem to be each other's shadow - H represents C's wild heart, and C's need sort of is represented in H when he marries Isabel in part to spite C. And young catherine so much like her mother... I remember when I first read the book, I was a very shy 11th grader who had never been on a date, and longed for someone to love me the way H loved C. Even with how it all turned out... that was beautiful to me too... my heart is just so stirred every time I read it. I guess that's the biggie for me. It stirs my very soul. I have a wildness in my soul but I hide it so far below the surface that no one even suspects that it's there and I feel it big time when I read the book.