Complex and Brutal is Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights

Wow! I did not think when I picked up Wuthering Heights that it would be so brutal. The entire book was filled with unrelenting cruelty and violence, both physical and verbal.  Wuthering Heights would make Jane Austen fans go rushing back to Pride & Prejudice for equilibrium.  Abuse was what literally shaped and reshaped the characters…