Posted on 07/30/2018 12:37:30 PM PDT by Borges
Emily Brontë, who was born 200 years ago, imagined a character who for many is the ultimate romantic hero but for others is a menace.
Brooding, untameable, downright tortured – what’s not to love? For many a reader, Heathcliff is the rugged embodiment of Byronic allure, all sturm und drang. This isn’t the only romantic cliché he personifies, either. He’s a walking rescue fantasy, the rejected child who’s suffered endless slights on his journey to manhood and requires only the love of a good woman to soothe his volatile soul. He’s misunderstood – deep and complicated and badly in need of someone who’ll truly get him.
Love for him is extreme, addictive, nihilistic – it’s about merging with another with such urgency that nothing else matters. And let’s not forget the tall-dark-handsome part, which is further enhanced by athleticism and smouldering eyes “full of black fire”. With his kinetic blend of instinct, intelligence and intensity, there’s something about Heathcliff to entrance readers of almost every erotic persuasion.
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What crap!
So do we all need to not only measure our carbon footprint, but our carbon retinal scan as well?
It’s the faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaar lefty, PC, multi-culty, brain dead BBC...of course it’s CRAP and in spades!
And I don’t even like that book nor any of the movies made from it.
Hamlet & Juliette......................
I’ve always considered Heathcliff a psycho stalker.
Just gives me a chance to post the video and remember what a goddess Kate Bush was back then.....
Wuthering Heights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4
Better than reading the book.
I read it when I was 13, and even back then I found it a little weird. I wondered if back in the 19th century everyone was mean.
I read the book as a teen-did not like Heathcliff’s character-pouty, moody and somewhat obnoxious-he makes that other condescending fictional character, Mr. Darcy look like a paragon of gentlemanly virtues...
It is just a story meant to entertain- make-believe, fantasy, etc, so what is the point in criticizing a work of fiction? In the real world, the book could be used to illustrate a co-dependent relationship-but it is still just as much fiction as “toxic masculinity” is...
What a strange, pointless article. It’s a review of a work...more accurately one character in a work first published in 1847. So, filtered through her modern sensibilities, she doesn’t like the character. Boo-fricken-hoo.
The woman who wrote the article probably wants to have the book banned or burned-she has WAY too much time on her hands...
I think “literature’s greatest love story” is about Odysseus and Penelope.
It’s sad teachers actually foist that crap on innocent and unsuspecting students. Man, did my teachers hate me! LOL!
Honestly, I never got the appeal of Heathcliff. But “She slapped a restraining order on him and he stayed away at the advice of the family lawyer.” Does not fill that many pages. So I get why events unfolded otherwise.
Cue “Wuthering Heights” - song by Kate Bush and then covered by Pat Benatar
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