Forbidden Love and Revenge: a Summary of Wuthering Heights

📘 Wuthering Heights is a Gothic novel written by Emily Bronte and published in 1847.

👭 The novel tells the story of two neighboring families tragically entangled due to a romance between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff.

🏰 The story begins with the narrator, Mr. Lockwood, visiting Wuthering Heights during a snowstorm.

👻 Lockwood is visited by Catherine's ghost

🏰 Wuthering Heights is owned by Ern Shaw, who raises Heathcliff as his own

💔💔 Hindley beats Heathcliff, but Catherine befriends him

💑 Catherine and Heathcliff's forbidden love and their encounter with the Linton family.

👩‍🎓 Catherine's transformation into a proper young lady and her infatuation with Edgar.

❤️😢 Catherine's dilemma between her affection for Heathcliff and her marriage to Edgar.

🏰 Heathcliff returns to Wuthering Heights with a new persona and seeks revenge on Edgar.

💔 The tension between Heathcliff and Edgar escalates, leading to Catherine shutting herself in her room.

💑 Heathcliff and Catherine have a passionate reunion, but Catherine dies that very night.

👶 Kathy gives birth to a daughter and Heathcliff calls on Catherine's ghost.

😱 Isabella flees to London and Edgar raises Kathy in isolation.

🌟 Kathy stumbles upon Wuthering Heights and meets her cousin Linton.

💑 Heathcliff encourages a romance between Kathy and Linton through love letters.

💍 Kathy is forced to marry Linton by Heathcliff's manipulation.

🏰 Kathy is trapped at Wuthering Heights and becomes a caretaker for Linton.

👻 Heathcliff becomes obsessed with Catherine's ghost, leading to his demise.

💀 Heathcliff is found dead with a strange smile on his face.

💍 Paul Harrison and Kathy plan to get married and live in the Grange.