Duffy Whitmore

Duffy Whitmore

Feral Twins on the Moor

On reading Wuthering Heights

May 08, 2026
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Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights is often described as a great tragic love story, yet I found it to be something far colder and more unsettling. It is not a romance in any conventional sense. There is no character to admire, no moral centre to steady the reader, and little opportunity to invest in the early innocence of Catherine and Heathcliff before t…

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