George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion George Bernard Shaw

Wuthering Heights is now a classic of English literature, contemporaneous reviews were deeply polarised; it was controversial because of its unusually stark depiction of mental and physical cruelty, and it challenged Victorian ideas about religion, morality, class and a woman's place in society. Wuthering Heights was influenced by Romanticism including the novels of Walter Scott, gothic fiction, and Byron, and the moorland setting as a picturesque landscape is significant. The novel has inspired many adaptations, including film, radio and television dramatisations; a musical; a ballet; operas; and a hit song.