#beyond the butchering of Catherine and everything she represents the way the events played out kind of. messed up heathcliff's character arc | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

citr0nnade · 3 months ago

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Not to bitch and moan abt Canto VI again but the fact they turned 'this man was treated like a monster from the moment he was taken in and objectified and dehumanised by everyone around him including (especially!!) his 'crush', breaking him down and dooming him to perpetuating the cycle of abuse' into 'this guy is essentially an overgrown teenager who can't communicate with his gf :((((( everything would have been okidoki if they just talked!!' does NOT sit right with me

#beyond the butchering of Catherine and everything she represents the way the events played out kind of. messed up heathcliff's character arc #imho #heathcliff and Cathy are intrinsically linked. if you fuck up the writing on one character the other will suffer big time #also taking a character like cathy who is wholly unapologetic about being self serving and self centred and #having her feel bad about not giving heathcliff attention #it does not sit right with me at all. doubly soo considering these are writing choices made post incelgate from last year's summer #I COULD accept Cathy being softer if KJH was transparent about the narrative value this choice brings to the table #bc i'm not seeing the narrative value! if someone can tell me what this brings to the table without saying that book accuracy doesnt matter #if it didnt matter I wouldn't be weirded out by it half a year later #lemonspeak

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