Similarities And Differences Between Wuthering Heights And Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights tells a passionate story of love that spans across generations and transcends life and death. Heathcliff, a neglected orphan raised by the Earnshaw family at the brooding Wuthering Heights, loses Catherine Earnshaw, his true love, to Edgar Linton, a member of the wealthy Linton family at the elegant Thrushcross Grange. Heathcliff disappears for three years and returns an esteemed man, ready to take revenge on those who wronged him. As time passes these characters birth a new generation whose upbringings are greatly affected by their parents. The novel saw its cinematic rehashing in a PBS film of the same name directed by Coky Giedroyc. The story remains relatively unchanged between both versions, but the film contains a numerous amount of differences that distinguish it significantly from the book. The film lacks depth in certain characters, adds and omits certain events and removes narration entirely. Because of this, the film provides an accurate account of the story but fails to emulate the level of passion that the book contains.

In the book he is portrayed as a rough, uneducated servant with a compassionate heart. He is the most misunderstood in the novel, with everyone treating him with face value instead of knowing the kind of the person he truly is. Now, the lack of character depth in the film does not lie within Hareton himself; instead, it lies within understanding Hareton’s role within the story. In the book Hindley treats Heathcliff like a slave ending his education and forcing him to work as a servant. As part of his revenge against those who have wronged him, Heathcliff treats Hareton the same way Hindley treated him. But in the film, he does not have the uncultured disposition he has in the book. Hareton becomes a blank slate and hardly serves a role besides being young Catherine 's love interest in the “happy