Wuthering heights is the masterpiece ofEmily Brontë.It is a powerful attack on the bourgeois marriage system.The pure love between the hero and the heroine is destroyed by cla prejudice founded on wealth.It shows that pure and true love in a cla society is impoible of attainment.
The novel deals mainly with the story of Heathcliff, a gipsy waif of unknown parentage, picked up by Mr.Earnshaw in the streets and brought up with his children.Wuthering heights is the name of Mr.Earnshaw\'s house in North England, remote from the outside world and amidst gloomy surroundings.Heathcliff is treated well by Earnshaw, but when the old man dies, the young master Hindley bullies and insults him.\" He(Hindley) drove him(Heathcliff) from their company to the servants, deprived him of the instruction of the curate(their teacher), and insisted that he should labour out of doors instead, compelling him to do so as hard as any hand on the farm.\" Heathcliff falls paionately in love with Catherine, Hindley\'s sister, who loves him but thinks it would degrade her to marry him.Heathcliff, finding it impoible for him to be united to Catherine, leaves Wuthering heights.Three years later, he returns, becoming a rich man, but finds that Catherine has married Edgar Linton, a weakling.He lives again in Wuthering heights and seeks his revenge.He resumes his love-making to Catherine, and his violent love brings her to her grave at the birth of her daughter Cathy.Then Heathcliff marries Edgar Linton\'s sister Isabella and, not loving her, treats her cruelly.In revenge for Hindley\'s cruel treatment of himself when a child , he puts Hindley and his son Hareton entirely under his control, and and treats Hareton brutally.He then forces Catherine\'s daughter Cathy to marry his own sickly son in order to seize the estate of the Lintons.He nearly succeeds in doing so, but his son dies and Cathy falls in love with Hareton.Heathcliff, now an old man and haunted by the memory of Catherine, begins to see the pointlene of his revenge and longs only for his reunion with Catherine after death.He dies and the two young lovers are united happily.A young boy declares he has seen the ghosts of the Heathcliff and Catherine walking on the moor.
