[ SECRET POST #2792 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2792 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I really need to finish it. I put it down at the point Heathcliff sent Joseph to get his son because my only thought was "He’s going to do something *horrible* to that child!" and I hated him so much I couldn’t take it anymore. I mean Jesus Christ, I want into thinking it was some grand love story for the ages and I got the romantic hero hanging dogs and killing baby birds.

[lunabee34]

Ahahahhahaha. Yes. It's an incredibly violent book, and the child abuse is very egregious. The first time I read it, I thought Hindley was going to end up killing Hareton somehow, and he very nearly does.

[(Anonymous)]

It wouldn’t have been so jarring if I hadn’t thought it was a love story, but that’s what I’d always heard. If that wasn’t the case I probably would have enjoyed it more without the constant intrusive thoughts of "WHO THE HELL THINKS THIS MESSED UP, SOCIOPATHIC SHIT IS ROMANTIC? What is WRONG with people?"

[lunabee34]

Oh yes. That would be very jarring. It doesn't help that every time it's been filmed, it's been framed as the uber love story and the other elements elided.

[(Anonymous)]

There was a TV version in the 90s, starring Ralph Fiennes, that got bad reviews because "it makes Cathy and Heathcliffe look like terrible people!" And I laughed and laughed. And thought it was pretty good, for a story about two psychos. Because they're TERRIBLE!

[lunabee34]

Ooooh, I haven't seen that one.

I love the one with Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff, but it's just not gritty enough.

[i_paint_the_sky]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Bront%C3%AB%27s_Wuthering_Heights

It actually was a theatrical release, not a TV movie. IIRC, it was Paramount Pictures UK's first production or something like that.

Despite the 25% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I quite like it. I think a lot of that may be because it includes the second generation, who are much more likeable.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, fuck it. I loved the book. I couldn't finish AUSTEN, but WH I read two times. The people are fucked up, the abuse was disturbing and the love was incredibly selfish, just like Cathy and Heathcliff themselves. But I've always liked the book because it was so different than the lighthearted fare they were pushing on us in school. I've felt impulses and ugliness like Heathcliff, I know what it's like to want too much, so I got it. I outgrew it, thank God, but I could still understand.

And I hoped that Heathcliff's ghost found Cathy's and they haunted Wuthering Heights together forever after. "Our love was eternal. Literally."