Wuthering Heights Video Summary
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Wuthering Heights is a gothic novel written by Emily Bronte and published in 1847, the same year that her sister, Charlotte, published Jane Eyre. Growing up relatively isolated, Emily published the novel-her first and only-under the name Ellis Bell, a pen name that her sisters helped coin along with their own when they co-authored a book of poetry in 1846. Dying soon after Wuthering Heights was published to scathing reviews, Emily would never read the introduction to the novel penned by her sister, Charlotte, in which she outed Emily as the author and defended her from critics: “her mind would of itself have grown like a strong tree.”
Set on the moors near Yorkshire, Wuthering Heights tells the story of two neighboring families that become tragically entangled as a result of a fraught romance between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.
The novel begins with its narrator, Mr. Lockwood, the new tenant of a fine estate called Thrushcross Grange, paying a visit to the neighboring property, Wuthering Heights, which is owned by a troubled man named Heathcliff. Finding himself snowed in, Lockwood passes the night at Wuthering Heights by reading the diary of Catherine Earnshaw, the former inhabitant of his room. While reading, Lockwood is visited by Catherine’s ghost, who asks to be let in through the window. Upon returning home, Lockwood falls ill and asks his housekeeper, Ellen “Nelly” Dean, who used to work at Wuthering Heights, to tell him what she knows about the place.
Nelly’s story begins with the original owner of Wuthering Heights, a gentleman-farmer named Earnshaw, who returns from a trip to Liverpool with a “dark-skinned” orphan boy he found roaming the streets. Naming the boy Heathcliff after his late son, Earnshaw raises the child as his own, inspiring the envy of his biological son, Hindley, who beats Heathcliff every chance he gets. In contrast, Earnshaw’s daughter, Catherine, immediately befriends Heathcliff, and the two become close throughout the years.
One day, Catherine and Heathcliff are caught spying on the civilized Linton family, who live at Thrushcross Grange. Catherine also becomes infatuated with Edgar, the Lintons’ son. When Catherine finally returns to Wuthering Heights a changed young woman, Heathcliff worries that she will lose interest in him. After accepting a marriage proposal from Edgar, Catherine admits to Nelly that, despite her consuming affection for Heathcliff, she cannot marry him due to his inferior social status. Overhearing this, Heathcliff becomes distraught and runs away. At the age of 18, Catherine marries Edgar and moves into Thrushcross Grange.
To Catherine’s relief, Heathcliff returns to Wuthering Heights three years later, having mysteriously acquired gentlemanly manners, education, and money while he was away. While spending time with Catherine at the Grange, Heathcliff indulges the affections of Edgar’s sister, Isabella, in an attempt at revenge on her brother. Over time, the tense atmosphere between Heathcliff and Edgar culminates in Heathcliff being thrown out of the Grange, to which Catherine responds by shutting herself in her room. Ultimately, Edgar is unable to stop Heathcliff and Isabella from being together, and they elope.
Meanwhile, Heathcliff and Isabella return to Wuthering Heights, miserable and regretting their elopement. One day, while Edgar is in church, Heathcliff comes to Grange, where he and Catherine have a passionate reunion, forgiving each other for their betrayals. In order to avoid Edgar, Heathcliff leaves but is later devastated to learn that Catherine died that very night, after giving birth to a daughter, Cathy.
Wracked with grief, Heathcliff calls on Catherine’s ghost to haunt him for the rest of his days.
Growing increasingly crazed, Heathcliff reveals to Nelly that he is still tormented by the ghost of Catherine, having dug up her grave in a deranged attempt to gaze upon her corpse.
Tiring of the gloomy moors, Lockwood moves away but encounters Nelly while passing through the area eight months later. Nelly explains to Lockwood that Heathcliff grew so obsessed with Catherine’s ghost that he stopped eating and sleeping. One day, Nelly found him dead, with a bizarre smile on his face. Heathcliff is buried with Catherine, while Hareton and Cathy make plans to marry and move into the Grange.
Bro crazed Heathcliff ( 8:50 ) is me staying up to write a paper about Wuthering Heights
i just pulled an all nighter reading and annotating the book 😭
Same
Lockwood's pyjamas at 1:50 LOL
I woke up from a dream at 4.30 this morning realising I had a paper to write for next week and hadn't read it... now I'm here watching this,
@@brionybarrett8967 Perfect start for a paper of Gothic novel 😄
"Please, Catherine. Appear before me and tear me asunder. Let me see your eyes as I expire."
THE FAULT LIES WITH YOU HEATHCLIFF🗣️🔥🔥🔥
I love when random Korean indie game companies can make me read books made by people from my own country by working with a Japanese band.
*Korean. But yeah, I wouldn’t have heard of most of the books until limbus came out.
@@redhotdanger2394Mili is a Japanese band, PM is Korean
These heights truly are Wurthing Dante
moment of silence for little sir squirrel
The fault lies with you Heathcliff!
No it's hinley
I DIDNT BREAK YOUR HEART, YOU DID!! AND IN DOING SO YOU HAVE BROKEN MINE!!
"you will get shoved in this bag, too"
Me talking to my balls shaving cream.
"you will get shoved in this bag, too"
Project moon fans when book is connected to their favorite korean franchise:
WE USING POTENTIAL MAN WITH THIS ONE
We can only imagine how much efforts would have gone into this to make a summary of a complex novel so simple yet filled with every important details.
Thank you so much, it really helped me prepare for my exams.
You're welcome!
genuienly one of the best summaries I'e found. I love how you take your time to explain the story instead of rushing through it like most other channels!
This, and EVERY other Wuthering Heights analysis, summary, and annotations will be claimed into the Limbus Company brainrot.
Truly a Heartbreaking moment.
So this is the power of distortion
Dante's inferno, crime and punishment, metamorphosis, layers of hell, etc
We are like carmen striking at the most vurnerable moment
What does this comment and the replies mean please I beg for a little context
@@josephspencer139 limbus company, semi gacha game in which adapt several classical literature characters into its own universe, unlike other gacha game in which just plaster said literature character names into some rando almost unrelated character, they adapt the classical literature character backstory, one of the character names is heathcliff.
HEED MY CALL! WUTHERING HEIGHTS!
I MUST BE THE REASON WHY YOU HAVE GIVEN UP YOUR SMILES 🔥🔥
AND THE HOPE INSIDE YOUR EYES HAVE BEEN STOLEN ✍️✍️✍️✍️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
PROJECT MOON RECIEVED
I MUST BE THE REASON WHY
YOU HAVE GIVEN UP YOUR SMILES
AND THE HOPE INSIDE YOUR EYES
HAVE BEEN STOLEN
I MUST BE THE REASON WHY
YOU MUST TELL ME ALL THESE LIES
canto 6 are banger i hope Heathcliff will meet with Catherine again
Who
Who is Catherine
Who is ■■■■■■■■■?
OH ROUND AND ROUND WE GO
Holding onto pain~
driven by our egos
Feelings untold
Spinning our own
spinning our own versions of the past
Everyone gangster until time travel and other universes are implemented by a Korean company. Oh wait…
We don’t talk about the *****
im here for limbus company
How much I wished for another...
better, happier, brighter, future...
Here I am at the gate I stand
Dear old times,I've made up my mind
How much you must have overlooked your wonders (How much you must have suffered trough)
Limbus prepared me in case this appears on an exam
I need a quick read, I need to spoil myself to know what gonna happened on his canto
Hehehe
5:39 Are we going to have the first pregnancy in pm lore? 😂
@@stp5076First?? There's Angelica and Roland.
Just finished it, strong urge to read the summarized version refreshed all of the weeks reading.
Thanks!
I MUST BE THE REASON WHY!
Bro is the reason why 💀
Limbus company moment
Canto 6 gonn be wild🔥🔥
You really helped me het RID of the confusing book. It now very clear to me. Thumb up
Yes I did come here because of Limbus, and?
O~ round and round we go
Holding onto pain, driven by our egos...
Heathcliff had bangs over his eyes "like a colt's mane."
And a face as white as white washed walls
Thanks for this! I am listening to the audiobook and if I zone out for a minute I feel like I miss a key component. I might try to actually read it and then watch the movie afterwards.
I must be the reason why
Man a lot of people dying of sickness
Well, at this time, Emily the author died at 30. The sister of Emily died and their mother died when Emily was 3. Typhoid was in the school the sisters attended so they were home schooled until later went to Belgium but got homesickness and died. That's why a few of the characters died in the story my guess, I haven't read it.
Ofcourse it's the victorian era after all
You should read about the life of author. Each of her family members died one by one.
bruh, it's literally past period where cold can kill you.
Righhhhhhttttt '!!,,
I pity for Isabella though. Poor soul
Yeah, she, the housekeeper and Cathy's daughter are the only ones I pitied.
@@saiarasajitasajid1574 yea she was forced to wear an ID. Truly a miserable fate
company company
Dantehhh turn the clock dantehhh
I MUST BE THE REASON WHY,
YOU HAVE GIVEN UP YOUR SMILES
AND THE HOPE INSIDE YOUR EYES
HAVE BEEN STOLEENNN
I MUST BE THE REASON WHY
Wuthering Heights will always be one of my favorites 🥰.. Everything about this story sends shivers through my soul
I really couldn’t like that book. I tried to like the characters but all of them are just horrible people with toxic relationships
I agree with you
😂
Yup that's the book
Because that's how real life is, to me the book is more like real life events even though it is fiction. Real life is always disappointing
Agreed..
Wuthering what?
Huh? What's this "Cathy" you're talking about? Everyone knows Hindley was an only child.
Hindley and Catherine or cathy are siblings
ur joking right?
@@Preshlyit's the limbus brainrot
Yeah, who is this "Cathy"? I readed the whole book and there wasnt no girl named "Catherine" or "Cathy". Are the two above experiencing dejavu? (this is a joke, please if you want further context just ask)
STOP IT WITH THE LIMBUS REFERENCES IM CRYING RN
I read it 10 yrs ago, and it took me 6 months. it was tough for me to stick with it. It was so confusing with all the people, the deaths, the old words used, etc. I just started rereading it like I never heard of it. it was still confusing. I learned a lot of new words. Im glad to find the video summary of the story on YT. now, I quit reading it just into the 5th chapter. I praise the author for an epic novel and am saddened about her death. May she RIP.
SLEEPER AGENTS
This book is relatively short and there are only a few characters in it, yet it was somehow so confusing to me. Thanks for the summary!
i just wanna know heathcliffs story for limbus company fr fr
Exact reason I’m hear
we need the lore
LIMBUS CONPANY!!!!
This video saved me. Thank you 😊
So like everybody was dying through out the story
my ap literature exam is tomorrow, thanks for the review :)
Hey friend how you doing hope your doing well. Wanted to ask how did the exam go? I also have ap literature exam next week and kinda worried.
I thought Heathcliff was a Gypsi/of Romani decent? Gypsies/Romani people tend to be of darker skin tones and were very much looked down upon in history. Also many people at these times called anyone who wasn’t pale white “black.”
If I'm remember correctly they say he's a gypsy and looks dark and like a Spaniard, I don't think it actually says where he is from, but I could be wrong.
No he wasnt either a Roma or other races. British and irish Travellers are as white as the rest of the Britons. The are called gypsies due to the lifestyle.
thank you!!@@parapoliticos52
True
Heathcliff is not black or African; he is a gypsy - it's stated clearly in the book
" Its as dark almost as if it came from the devil", " I had a peep at dirty, rages, black-haired childt; big enough.... and repeaded over and over again some gibberish that nobody could understand", "he saw it starving, and homeless, and as good as dumb in the street of Liverpool, where he picked it up and inquired for the onwner" (Bronte 29)
Considering that Liverpool was one of the primarily locations though which the slave trade was carried out, it s save to say that he, at least, is a person of colour
@@fatoumataceesay8007 Gypsy's are people of colour so he is not wrong and also you can be right. He could be mixed.
It's just stupid literalism mate. When a character is described as dark complexion in old books it's now taken as black. Plus, white English culture is seen as wrong and in need of diversity.
No way, he was white. I'm not watching the movie where they will change him his ethnicity
@@benfisher1376Yeah, I myself a tawny skinned colour person but during the age where Wuthering Heights take place, people would considered me as black
Difficult story but I love it . Thanks for the summary
You are doing yourself a grave disservice by not reading this epic in its entirety. This and Emily's sister's novel are two of the greats, I would go so far as to say that Jane Eyre is the best novel ever written, high praise for sure.
No, way, I say Pride and Prejudice is the best novel ever written. But written by Jane Austen, of course.
@@sasquatchintownmy modern brain isn't quite happy unless somebody is murdered, so I would probably place Tess of the d'urbervilles above P&P, just because not alot seems to happen in P&P.
Heard someone say this was intentional because Jane Austen was being satirical; the women just concern themselves with who to marry etc because that's all they were allowed to do. Sounds like an ideological take on it though, and tbh I would have to Google it to see what evidence there is that she was being satirical
At the beginning it was hard to read now with the summary the book got interested and I'm done with looking at the summary now u want to say Thank you
so many
characters
🎵Heathcliff! Heathcliff! No one should, terrify the neighborhood. But Heathcliff just won't be undone, playing pranks on everyone.🎵
Catherine and Heathcliff were both deprived of parental love and guidance during their formative years. That’s why they both grew up to be dark characters. It’s said that VC Andrews got a lot of her inspiration from the Brontë sisters.
Heathcliff wasn't black or a moor...dark features doesn't mean black ...?? I read it ..that never crossed my mind...what cause he is an orphan with dark features..Moors is a place in the book not African moors ..
"But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners, a gentleman." -Chapter 1
"If you were a regular black... Who knows, but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen..." -Chapter 7
Correct. He may not be black. 😊 Dark-skinned doesn't mean he is black, nor does it mean he isn't. We wouldn't know unless we asked Bronte herself, but we know for sure he was dark-skinned!
@@GradeSaver the Indian Queen should be a giveaway here. No he was not African, no he was not black. You have to remember folks that England and India were kind of close back in the day. But ultimately I prefer Laurence Olivier.
They just want to steal our literature because they have none of their own. And the communists whom have infiltrated the West help them to do this.
@@grosbeak6130 It's very ambiguous, none of the characters know his race nor have a very good understanding about race in general, but his son being white passing must mean he's mixed race (maybe Earnshaw's illegitimate child?) or just pale enough to have a white looking child.
@@GradeSaver So he was Romani
who’s this cathy gal
catherines daughter
@@chizobaokonkwo2940 who's ■■■■■■■■■?
i got stuck at the moment catherine gave birth to a baby girl named Cathy, not realising who Hearhcliff, between tge two, had killed. then I watched the video 🫡 its a useful video for photographic memory guys !!!
I love this book.
Heathcliff is actually Romani
Thank you. Merry Christmas.
One of the best novels I have ever read
Can we give this title as THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MR LOCKWOOD’S VISIT TO WUTHERING HEIGHTS?
Thats crazy
The most realistic story.
Edgar was blonde, Heathcliff was not black but Gypsy/Indian-looking !!! Why do people get these things wrong
He was southern European, I don't think he was really a gypsy in that sense, she could well have gone for exotic looking southern european or he may just have been a dark haired Irish traveller (not romani, but often described as gypsy due to their lifestyle)
He was called a gypsy all throughout the book.
Love this
This channel gonna grow more🤌
Plenty of illness and death in this novel. Enjoy!
What is the theory to apply the story?
Why do I feel like it's so complicated
That's the story? Damnnn glad I didn't bother reading it.
You don’t know what you’re missing. Try it before you dismiss it
This kid one book the whole world should read. Heathcliff was many a young girls first crush though he was cruel. It was a way forced upon him but his love was epic.
The dialogues and angst in this book was epic, you’re missing out on an amazing book.
Smart!!! I SO regret having wasted time on it!
good stories aren't for everyone@@EmmaKnightleyNo1
This kinda helped cause the book is a long story 😢... So long story short.... Thanks Guys😅🎉
I am the only one who found this book totally f***** up ?
No I did too 😂
Thats why this book was criticized at that time.
Can anyone tell me who is Nelly? And also who is Ellen?😢 Please please tell me.I have my literature exam tomorrow
Nelly is Ellen. They are the same person. She is the housekeeper/maid of the Earnshaws
Ellen is nelly real name
Nelly is the one who stole the golden bough
Remember
@@endlessscp4611 canto 6(9) the brainrotting
Video good
Except the fact they made Heathcliff not a Romanian 💀
Like bro, some people really think the only Dark Skins are African and African-American when Europe and even Asia had different kinds
Yea, he was a perfect employee of LIMBUS COMPANY
Please,Animation used to explain in the video what we call it ?
So everyone "falls ill and dies?" 😂
perfect ty
Nice
What a depressing story.
Thank You . I am glad I never had to read this for school. Sounds like a damn soap opera . smh
I have read still doesn't understand anything at all honesty speaking
Check the names of the cast. Kathryn give birth to Kathy
Check out any movie. I’ll recommend 1978 show though cause it’s most accurate.
How is Wuthering Heights related to events over the last four years in California, USA? Now, here is an interesting essay for college students to submit to their professors. You can tell Emily Bronte was surrounded by people who died young. More main characters are dying in her story than most. Even her brother and his alcoholism is represented in her story and one-character dies of TB like most of her family. And, most of her characters leave home but return like she did several times. How is this related to what is happening in California right now? See below....
I saw a video where Emily's father who outlived his wife and all of his 6 children (most died in their late 20s early 30s within a short period of TB) had an investigation of their deaths since other children in the area were dying at the same young ages in significant numbers. He discovered, unsurprisingly, that it was a glaring lack of sanitation which included the numerous bodies buried in the local Church graveyard leaking into the water system and one outdoor restroom for every 4 households also leaking into the groundwater and water system.
The lack of sanitation combined with TB spreading in the crowded conditions caused by many new immigrants looking for work, combined to cause the lethal conditions in their town. Therefore, it was not just because it was a long time ago before antibiotics. People will be surprised that it is happening today right here in the good ole USA. Reminds me of California, only the public health department knows better today than to allow such unhygienic conditions to flourish amongst the tent cities and large homeless population. Combine that with designer viruses and experimental contaminated injections that do not stem the virus but cause problems of their own, and illegal fentanyl also a cash cow for certain elites, and we're in more trouble than people are aware.
And the Governor of California is either insane with greed and dreams of being a communist dictator or is just plain insane. And, they want him to run for President??? That means he's not the only one insane. It will mean destruction for this country. Too bad Emily Bronte's not here to write the "Withering" Heights that is the Destruction of America, Out Loud by certain elites and with the aid of the Far Eastern country making our medications, biologics, baby food, pet food, computer chips, and all our junk. So, in that respect America is dying due to the stupidly of allowing a "frenemy" at best who wants to take our place in the world, to make and export to our country everything that keeps a country alive, well and flourishing. Of course they are going to put "arsenic in the lace," with the assistance of absolute traitors inside our "gates." No pun intended. What else would you expect?
I must be the reason why
you have given up your smile
Ohh round and round we go....
How is this ocnsidered a revenge story?
Half of the book is Heathcliff trying to revenge the people that hates
The "love" story of Healthcliff and Catherine is only the catalyst for what is really a story of obsession and revenge.
Jee, that is crazy
As a Gypsy I don't appreciate the unnecessary race swap of Heathcliff.
Everyone knows Heathcliff is a handsome gypsy not a black guy except this person😂
We simply know that Heathcliff is dark-skinned and has a mane of dark hair. There’s no reason why he wouldn’t have been African. That’s certainly more likely than white, and doesn’t make any difference to his story.
The first soap opera?
The person who says about this sumarry cannot be caught because of her accent ! For other
i must be the reason why
I hate this book with a Heathcliff-like vengeance. What a waste of time. They were all annoying af. All. Maybe not the dogs.
Over-hyped, and definitely NOT romantic.
Big on the “not romantic” part. I disliked the book so bad. I wanted to like it though, but I couldn’t. Everyone was so toxic.
Totally agreed
Totally disagree.
Because it isn’t a romance, I think. It is considered a gothic novel with themes of madness and obsession. With that in mind you would enjoy it better
Why is Heathcliff african in this vid??
WHO THE HECK IS HARRISON??
not harrison, hareton and he's the child of hindley
but isn’t he already dead because of tuberculosis
That was the mother
This is depressing asf……
Why
I MUST BE THE REASON WHY!
Baba mazhya!😞
Kate Bush bring me here
This sounds awful
F
put microphone deeper in your mouth