Listening - Wuthering Heights

January - February 2017

 

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

This book describes story about love and hatred. Heathcliff is a child found in a street of Liverpool and is brought to the Earnshaw family. At the beginning he is loved and respected, however after the death of Mr Earnshaw, Heatcliff is treated as a servant. Katherine Earnshaw is a girl who is only one in the house who loves Heathcliff. When she starts to think about her marridge with Edgar Linton, Heathcliff disappers only to return as a rich man, prepared to destroy both the Lintons and the Earnshaws.

 

Justification

This book is regarded as a classis of English literature. I have read it twice in my life after having seen the film with Juliette Binoche and Ralph Fiennes. I read it long time ago and so I decided to remember the plot by listening. I use an app called OODLES and for my artifact I chose the first chapter.

 

Reflection

I must say that understanding of the first chapter was difficult, I had to listen to it twice, then I took the book and listen to it once again. The book is read aloud by volunteers and the first woman did not read it nicely. Her voice was monotonous and too quiet. The other chapters did not make me so many problems. 

There are some sentences (or parts of them) that I had to listen several times:

 

I have not inconvenienced you by my preservence in soliciting the occupation of Thrushcross Grange...

... stalwart limbs set out to advantage in kneebreeches and gaiters.

 I bestow by my own attributes over-liberty on him.

... they evinced hovered between scorn and a kind of desperation...

Half-a-dozen four-footed fiends, of various sizes, and ages, issued from hidden dens ....

... to sit sulking for the misbehaviour of a pack of curs.

... with vexatious phlegm.