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WUTHERING HEIGHTS EMILY BRONTE ; BOOK OF A LIFETIME

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20070720
Author:Tabish Khair

Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights is about terror, arising from fear of the other. Remember the scene where Lockwood has a nightmare about the dead Catherine, a "waif-ghost", trying to enter his room from a window unlatched by the storm? Lockwood writes that "terror made me cruel": he rubs the "creature's" wrist on the broken glass pane until it bleeds. But still the "ghost" maintains its "tenacious grip", maddening him with fear. It is a disturbing scene - terrifying and intensely moving in the thwarted humanity of the "creature", that dehumanised instrument of terror - and followed by ...

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