Wuthering Heights: Passion, Power & Obsession

Wuthering Heights is many things—a ghost story, a mystery, a multi-generational epic, a revenge tragedy—but it sure isn’t a love story. Through close reading and discussion, we’ll explore how the novel’s intense emotions often lead to control, cruelty, and harm rather than connection. We’ll consider its unusual structure, wild setting, and troubling depictions of childhood, class, and inheritance. Along the way, we’ll ask why the book is so often romanticized and what gets lost when obsession is celebrated as love.

Required Reading: Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë