Role of Edgar Linton in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights
Emily Jane Bronte’s magnum opus Wuthering Heights is one of those canonical works or classics that reward readers at every level of literary sophistication. Emily Bronte remains a figure whose life and personality are largely shrouded in mystery. She was the second and least worldly of a triumvirate of immensely gifted writing sisters who had managed to overcome the change of fortune of their childhood to burst forth, seemingly out of nowhere, with powerful and entirely unconventional works of the imagination. One of Ellis Bell's (Emily Bronte's pen name) greatest strengths as a writer was her willingness to not spell out everything for her readers but to weave her story in such a way as to draw readers inevitably in, capturing them in a mysterious interconnected web. Wuthering Heights is one of those greatest love stories in the English language. Nicholas Marsh remarks: "...the story of Wuthering Heights is too strong, too powerfully alive, to be contained ...