Literature and film: Wuthering Heights. The literary text versus the film adaptation – a comparison.

‘A passion. An obsession. A love that destroyed everyone it touched.’
‘The timeless novel of Emily Brontë about love and revenge.’1

That is the way in which the film producers promote their work, ‘Wuthering Heights’ (1992) with Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche starring in it. And they are right – the novel of the most famous of Brontë sisters is the timeless one. The film, however, seems to represent one of the many romances that had already been shown and told earlier – he and she as an inseparable couple, being almost the one body; unfortunately, that oneness is destroyed for her fear of the consequences of the violation of the social conventions; he takes a revenges for her betrayal...
The book, on the other hand, is a fascinating, disquieting piece of work, motivating......

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Title: Wuthering Heights
Approximate Word Count: 2261
Approximate Pages: 10 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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