Wuthering Heights, seasoned with a little Pepys 🤓

Good evening and welcome to this episode where we conclude looking at E Brontë‘s startling novel, that takes an evening to read and a lifetime to digest.

Like the clouds above the moors, like her brother, father, sisters and friends, Emily understands perhaps that we human animals are creatures of ever shape and time-shifting forms.  Our characters are best understood in the glimpses offered by of interactions with people and places. It’s a novel for me that offers up such snapshots as though her job as author was merely to skim off the stuff that rose to the top: the rest is visible to her but invisible not only to us but to her characters themselves. As in life where the motives of others are invisible to us. ‘Here is all is: make of it what you will’ she cries, laughing and stepping out of herself and the conventions that surround her. A freedom only truly to be found outside of life.