Many people, generally those who have never read the book, consider
Wuthering Heights to be a straightforward, if intense, love
story — Romeo
and Juliet on the Yorkshire Moors. But this is a mistake. Really
the story is one of revenge. It follows the life of Heathcliff, a mysterious
gypsy-like person, from childhood (about seven years old) to his death
in his late thirties. Heathcliff rises in his adopted family and then
is reduced to the status of a servant, running away when the young woman
he loves decides to marry another. He returns later, rich and educated
and sets about gaining his revenge on the two families that he believed
ruined his life.
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