[ SECRET POST #2792 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2792 ⌋

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Comments

[sparklywalls]

Personally I love WH because I loved reading through it thinking I HATE THESE PEOPLE, PLEASE CAN THEY ALL JUST FAIL?! And tbh nobody really comes out the other end winning or being a half decent person...except maybe Hareton (depending on how you feel about that one.)

But I totally understand why people dislike it and I roll my eyes at ANYONE who calls it the greatest, purest romance ever. No, Heathcliff and Cathy are complete arseholes...how can you miss this?

Also even as someone born and partly raised in Yorkshire, for me the archaic form of Joseph's dialogue is trying.

[sarillia]

My eyes would always glaze over at the written dialect. Honestly that may be the main thing keeping me from rereading this book. I have a weird soft spot for books where the characters are unlikeable.

[sparklywalls]

I have a weird soft spot for it too, I think partly because it makes me feel "no matter what at least I'm not this awful," Also I like anything that acknowledges the cruddy side of humanity in general. But equally like OP of the secret I want something happy sometimes.

[sarillia]

I especially like when characters are terrible but there's something compelling about them at the same time. That's why I love Lolita. Humbert's language is so gorgeous and there's something about that contrast with the horrific things he's saying that I find so fascinating. I tend to be really drawn to contrasts of all kinds.

There's an element of that to Wuthering Heights too. I think Emily was the most poetic of the Bronte sisters even if I prefer the others' books overall.

[lunabee34]

I love it for the same reasons.

And I hate the portions in dialect. I have to read it aloud, and even then I don't always get it. This last time I taught the book, I had several students who listened to it on audio along with reading it, and that really helped them through Joseph's dialect.

[(Anonymous)]

This is pretty much why I liked WH as well. But yes, I can see why people disliked it too!

[(Anonymous)]

And tbh nobody really comes out the other end winning or being a half decent person...except maybe Hareton (depending on how you feel about that one.)

Hareton, Cathy II, Nelly Dean, Isabella Linton... (I'm continually amazed, whenever I reread WH, that Isabella's allowed to escape her bad marriage; it's so wonderfully unmoralistic. Yes, she's on the young side when she dies, but that wasn't so uncommon then, and at least she's had 13 years of happiness and independence before her death.)