Wuthering Heights

     Wuthering Heights is an interesting book.  I like the way the author complicates the plot by naming the characters similarly.  For example the men have names like Hareton, Hindley, and Heathcliff.  The novel is also more complicated because Emily has related almost all of the characters either by blood or marriage.  I think the book is a wonderful story, almost like a mystery, but it is hard to understand.  The book was written in old English, and that writing style is not common among novels of this time period.
     In my creative project, I want to focus on the characterization of people in the book.  Characterization has been greatly used in the novel thus far.  As previously mentioned, characters have similar names and are mostly all related.  Not to mention, the story is being told through the eyes of two people.  Mr. Lockwood, the man who wants to be a tenant for Wuthering Heights, starts out as the narrator for the story.  Now that the story has progressed, the servant named Nelly is narrating the story of Heathcliff and Cathy to Mr. Lockwood.  Emily has intertwined the characters in such a way that the novel becomes much more interesting.
     I think this novel relates to the play Romeo and Juliet because it is about forbidden love.  Romeo loves Juliet, but their families are enemies which means they can never be together.  Cathy loves Heathcliff, but they come from different worlds.  She can't marry him because she is a proper lady, and Heathcliff is more of a carefree ruffian.  Cathy then marries Edgar Linton which really makes her love for Heathcliff impossible.  To complicate it more, Heathcliff marries Isabella Linton which means he and Cathy are now, by law, siblings.  The theme of forbidden love is present in both of these literary works.
     At this point, I don't really have any ideas for my creative project.  I know I will come up with some as the book progresses, but I don't know enough of the story to base a project off of.  The plot gets more and more in depth as the story goes, and I am excited to see what will come out of it.