A Game of Wuthering Thrones

In class we have been reading Wuthering Heights, which I have not enjoyed. It is definitely well written, but I am simply unable to get into it, and the reading has gone very slowly for me. However, recent events in the book have made it more exciting for me. People are starting to die. Now, I realize that this sounds morbid, but you must admit it always makes it more interesting. With the amount of characters in this book suddenly dying it made me think of one of my favorite book series. A Song of Ice and Fire, more commonly referred to as A Game of Thrones.

One of the most commonly told jokes about this series is simply “Everyone dies.” This is just referencing the very large amount of main characters who die in this series. The character who you would least expect to die, dies. I thought this was like Wuthering Heights because a large amount of the characters you were introduced to at the beginning of the story are suddenly dying, such as Hindley, Catherine, and Isabella. These are a few characters I wouldn’t have expected to die for a few reasons. Hindley and Catherine because they seemed too important to the story to die halfway through, and Isabella because she had not contributed enough to the story so far. So, while Game of Thrones is very different from Wuthering Heights, the unexpected and gratuitous deaths in both led me to relate themselves to each other in my mind.