Anyone know about "Wuthering Heights"?

[Belacqua]

I have been reading up on multiple summaries lately. It it simply comes across as forbidden love in the end ending up in regret.

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Ok, basically getting the plot of it now.

Basically it is a different version of Romeo and Juliet. Two star crossed lovers who are faced with family dynamics that force them apart.

Remember that Monty Python skit about a contest where people compete to summarize Proust? That was funny because (as the Python guys know) telling the plot of Proust basically tells us nothing important about the book. 

Literature is far more than plot. Even if a daytime soap opera had exactly the same plot as Wuthering Heights, it would be a completely different work. Because the medium, the language, the atmosphere, the psychological insights, the place in history, the relation to other works, would not be the same. 

A science book is about conveying data. If you can summarize the same data more efficiently, that's fine. Literature is about the experience of reading the book. If you don't read it, you don't know it. The Cliff Notes are NOT the book. (In this case, Heathcliff Notes. Ha ha.) 

I don't know Kate Bush's song, but if she's someone who reads good books, she may well be responding to atmosphere, psychology, Romantic-period ideas about love, etc. Knowing the plot would help very little in getting from the song what she's up to.

[Brian37]

I have been reading up on multiple summaries lately. It it simply comes across as forbidden love in the end ending up in regret.

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Ok, basically getting the plot of it now.

Basically it is a different version of Romeo and Juliet. Two star crossed lovers who are faced with family dynamics that force them apart.

Remember that Monty Python skit about a contest where people compete to summarize Proust? That was funny because (as the Python guys know) telling the plot of Proust basically tells us nothing important about the book. 

Literature is far more than plot. Even if a daytime soap opera had exactly the same plot as Wuthering Heights, it would be a completely different work. Because the medium, the language, the atmosphere, the psychological insights, the place in history, the relation to other works, would not be the same. 

A science book is about conveying data. If you can summarize the same data more efficiently, that's fine. Literature is about the experience of reading the book. If you don't read it, you don't know it. The Cliff Notes are NOT the book. (In this case, Heathcliff Notes. Ha ha.) 

I don't know Kate Bush's song, but if she's someone who reads good books, she may well be responding to atmosphere, psychology, Romantic-period ideas about love, etc. Knowing the plot would help very little in getting from the song what she's up to.

Everything in life is most certainly about experience. But the two experiences all face are birth and death  I find it futile to argue over the flavors beyond likes knowing everyone dies. The best humanity can do is argue for less conflict.