#by emily brontë

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[toiich]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[saintsebastiensbf]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[burningvelvet]

jacob elordi and margot robbie starring in yet another whitewashed wuthering heights adaptation which is going to further destroy the public perception of this classic literary work by misleading people into interpreting it as a common bodice ripper bc no one cares about nuance or meaning and all anyone cares about is profit... crying shaking throwing up!!!

it's also really ironic to imagine what heathcliff himself would think about how he's portrayed in media. he hates everyone and would hate more than anyone the fans who romanticize him, just as he canonically hates isabella for adoring him and wanting to believe that he's better than he is — that he is the romantic hero she's made him out to be. how ironic is it that most fans of the work embody isabella? and on that note, how much do you want to bet that isabella will be written out of the story along with most of the other characters plotlines, like how the colonial rhetoric is written out by the fact of elordi's mere presence?

heathcliff is such a wonderfully written character and one of the most iconic in all literary history. he doesn't deserve this chronic mistreatment and neither do any of the other characters. least deserving of all is emily brontë herself who would be continuously disappointed if she were misfortunate enough to have to bear witness to these adaptations. she's actively rolling in her grave as we speak and the producers are parodying heathcliff digging her up so that she can share in the torment they insist upon...

[cultreslut]

my 1966 copy of emily brontë's wuthering heights

[farosdaughter]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, Chapter IX

[derangedrhythms]

[...] he's in my soul.

Emily Brontë, from ‘Wuthering Heights’

[antigonick]

He wanted all to lie in an ecstasy of peace; I wanted all to sparkle and dance in a glorious jubilee. I said his heaven would be only half alive; and he said mine would be drunk: I said I should fall asleep in his; and he said he could not breathe in mine.

—Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[bethanydelleman]

Maybe the reason people won't make a canonically-correctly-coloured Heathcliff is because there is no easily accessible metaphor. I read a post saying something like "the white family that takes him in treats him like shit," but that's not accurate. The father treats him as a favourite and even names him after a deceased child of the family. The daughter is his best childhood friend and then they fall in love. It's only the son who hates Heathcliff and treats him poorly and you can easily argue that has way more to do with the father's favouritism and the very strange adoption than the colour of Heathcliff's skin.

And then what do you do with the second generation part? Heathcliff goes from sympathetic to a straight out villain, basically enslaving the child of his enemy and kidnapping his niece to marry his dying son in some twisted revenge plot (Edgar didn't like Heathcliff but nothing he did merits that level of revenge). And then Heathcliff dies and everything kind of gets reversed, so its not like he won in the end.

Even Cathy not marrying Heathcliff has more to do with money and the fact that he's an orphan than the colour of his skin. I don't know what Emily Brontë was really going for and maybe no one else can figure it out either. Or at least a way to tell it in a satisfying way.

(I'm not actually excusing anyone here, cast Heathcliff properly! But I just imagine this table of writers like of like... 🤷🏼‍♀️)

[manikas-whims]

“𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐨𝐟..

..𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 ♡”

- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë -

[petaltexturedskies]

Emily Brontë, from Wuthering Heights originally published c. 1847

[shirleyjacksonism]

They can't turn me out or shut me out or laugh at me or hide from me; I won't go, and Hill House belongs to ME.

The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson // The night is darkening around me, Emily Brontë // A Little While, A Little While, Emily Brontë

[saintsebastiensbf]

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

[burningvelvet]

its kind of hilarious how there are like 2 cinematic adaptations of one of anne brontë's novels while the other is ignored, a million adaptations of charlotte's jane eyre (several of them good) while her others are mostly ignored, and then you have emily who wrote probably the most famous one in contemporary media that has been adapted countless times but whose adaptations continuously suck... charlotte truly stays winning without even trying... but poor anne and emily!!

[thequietabsolute]

Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a love is  to watch the year repeat its days. 

Anne Carson, Glass, Irony, and God; from 'The Glass Essay' (1995.)

[elinordash]

UNDERDOG: THE OTHER OTHER BRONTË ↦ Gemma Whelan, Rhiannon Clements & Adele James

BONUS:

Hark! A Vagrant by Kate Beaton