Written by Emily Brontë
Currently Reading: February 7—28, 2026
I needed to re-read Wuthering Heights before seeing the new movie that’s coming out on Valentine’s Day. The film ads were saying things like “The Greatest love story ever told” and I had to pause. I read Wuthering Heights in High School and know that there was no love story in that book. It was a lust story. An obsession story. A revenge story. But definitely not a love story. It’s a Gothic fiction. Gothic fiction is described as a literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. A Byronic Romance, which centers on a passionate, often destructive relationship involving a Byronic Hero: a brooding, intelligent, and rebellious outsider with a dark past.
It turns out the movie is indeed a distant interpretation of the novel. At least they used quotes around the title “Wuthering Heights” because it was very loosely based on the novel.