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Wuthering Heights: Why is it a Classic? 13923 Views


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Thank you We sneak Weathering heights why is weathering heights

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a classic i'll ashman we still read weathering heights because

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of heathcliff and catherine There have been a lot of

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other books that have done frame narrative but a lot

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of other books with symbols that hit you over the

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head there's a lot of books morse but this story

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of heathcliff and catherine and that just like tragic love

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that never really even is a love stories like it's

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kind of incestuous and weird and like they're never married

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or anything but it's just like unrequited love that never

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happens and how tragic it is And that's why so

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many stories that come after that You know everything like

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romantic comedies to twilight to everything that happens has a

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little bit of heathcliff and catherine and that brooding romantic

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hero You're not really rooting for it first but but

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really comes through and then the love that never happens

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that that's why we still read this book Ok Weathering

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high through the book suffer through it It'll be worth

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it shmoop for stations with dr death out Why is

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the relationship between heathcliff and catherine so fascinating If you

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really find it all That fascinating What types of stories

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have been influenced by weathering heights No So is that

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like a w Y you know writing under the influence

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