Twilight is better than Wuthering Heights?

[Hannah]

Grace wrote: "Today I was talking to a girl I know in my high school about Wuthering Heights, and she told me that the love of Bella and Edward is greater than that of Cathy and Heathcliff (this is strictly depe..."

Comparing Wutheirng Heights to Twilight is like comparing homemade pasta to a store bought. No comparison can be made! Wuthering heights excels in language, passion, and overall beauty beyond what Twilight could ever hope to be.

[Lillian]

I haven't read Twilight, but I think comparisons of WH to Twilight should not be happening, since WH is so much more than a simple love story. Catherine's and Heathcliff's love for each other is so much more than romantic love...it says a lot about Catherine and the inner conflict between her dual longings for freedom and stability. It could also be the central element to WH as an entwicklungsroman, or Catherine's struggle to go back to the days of her childhood since she doesn't even know her adult self.

[Cassandra]

Yes, Wuthering Heights is the better of the two books, but I will say there are more likeable characters in Twilight than in Wuthering Heights. There aren't a lot of characters I dislike more than Heathcliff and Cathy. They're just awful--Heathcliff especially.

[Zohre]

I totally agree with you when you said "I feel like twilight was just written to satisfy a woman's fantasies of having a handsome man obsess over her"
In my opinion comparing WH with Twilight is just a bit...irrelevant(maybe i'm not using the right word)
but i totally agree with you Grace!

[W.]

I've never read Twilight but as, in my opinion, reading the back of a cereal packet beats reading Wuthering Heights . . .

[Annie]

Fijke wrote: "Jehona wrote: "Twilight might be OK for not so smart adolescents, but it has not art in it."

Oh please, spare me your snobbery. Twilight is a YA story, it's just an easy read, true, but a person i..."

No need to call her a snob for sharing her opinion. Is your opinion the only opinion that matters, why call her condescending? Do all your responses come from a humble point of view?
I agree with Jehone that literature is art and Twilight is poorly drawn art.
I politely but wholeheartedly disagree with you, a person IS what they read. What we read helps shape who we are, how we think, how we feel, even how we view the world. That is why people are so passionate when they discuss the books they love or hate.
As an student of Child Development and Psychology as well as a preschool teacher I know that what we read at young age shapes our views later on in life. I am very careful with the books I choose to introduce to children.

[Carol]

To me you cannot compare the two. They offered me two different things. I enjoyed Twilight. It was an easy read, something that I did not have to think about, just enjoy. WH was something to dig into. I liked both books, but for different reasons. I would not say they are in the same class. Besides, how can you dislike Twilight when it caused my daughter to go out and buy all of the classics mentioned in the books.

[Sarah]

These are not even comparable. Bella and Edward...? There is no complexity in their love. I would even hesitate to call Heathcliff and Cathy's devotion to each other love; it is so perverse that it devours them both. Whatever it was, Wuthering Heights' take on "love" is far more thought-provoking than Twilight's one note cliché.

[Andrea]

Cassandra wrote: "Yes, Wuthering Heights is the better of the two books, but I will say there are more likeable characters in Twilight than in Wuthering Heights. There aren't a lot of characters I dislike more than ..."

I haven't read Twilight. But if the main characters are as much likeable as in the first two movies, well, they would give Heathcliff a run for his money. I wished everyone got killed since minute 10 on the screen :)