I am currently taking a Gothic Literature course and reading Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. When I saw the book cover assignment I was immediately thinking of this novel and how to come up with a cover for it. I have many different versions of the book that I have shared here, but I wanted mine to look a bit more modern.

 

Obviously there are many different covers for the novel because it is so widely read and interpreted. For anyone unfamiliar with Wuthering Heights, it is an extremely naturalistic novel that takes place in the Moors of Dartmoor, England. It is a story depicting the extremely selfish and intense love/revenge of a woman named Catherine and a man named Heathcliff who haveknown eah other since childhood.

I won’t go into too much detail because everyone should read it, but in the first chapters of the novel a man finds writings from when Catherine was a child. She has written “Catherine Earnshaw,” “Catherine Heathcliff” and “Catherine Linton.” All three are different names that somehow work in the novel, though I will not say how. These names have much importance to the plot and the idea of repetition/circling in the novel and so I pulled them out and put them on the front of a gravestone (I’ll leave that as a hint to possible readers).

I like my version as it is both vague and foreshadowing, and it was really easy to make through canva.com, where I uploaded a photo from the site and wrote over it. I had trouble finding the perfect gravestone, but I think the one I chose works best.

 

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