[Wuthering Heights by Emily Brönte / The Other Side (1918) by Dean Cornwell]
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Me, being tired of people trying to explain that Rose didn't really love Jack, that she only loved an idea of him, that it was all superficial and hormonal...
Like, I'm the first to not believe in love at first sight in reality, but in fiction it's different.
Rose and Jack are symbolically coded as soulmates by the story, even before they meet.
That's why they fall so quickly in love with each other when they finally meet.
Rose and Jack notably share a love for the art world. Something that Rose is the only one around her and that no one understands. Jack is a literal artist. They even like the same artists !
Rose is someone who is locked away and yearns for freedom. Jack is literally a free spirit.
Rose rejects the inherently misogynist and patriarchal society, just like Jack.
Rose has a fire burning inside her and immense strength, just like Jack, but he is the only one who allows her to finally express all of that.
There is also the simple fact that they are able to understand each other very quickly. For example, Jack understanding that Rose would never jump. Or, the fact that Rose already knew that Jack was innocent for stealing the necklace, as she told him when she went to find him. For what ? Because as Jack told her as he was being taken away, she knows him. The fact that Jack trusts her completely, even when things seem very bad ? (hello the ax ?!) And so does she ?
Or also, the rather funny fact that they talk at the same time when they are annoyed with the guy who is lecturing them about a door when the boat is sinking.
All this to say that I'm tired of people trying to rationalize fictional romances. Especially when they are as well constructed as Rose & Jack.
I'm already tearing my hair out at those who say that we shouldn't see Jane Eyre or Wuthering Heights as romances...
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wuthering heights in memes (p2)
wuthering heights and thrushcross grange:
heathcliff writing love letters to cathy 2.0 under his sons name:
linton heathcliff:
hindley when heathcliff knocks at the door:
aaaand heathcliff, right before reducing hindley to a bloody puddle:
everyone when heathcliff shows up after 3 years:
anything: happens
joseph:
[heathcliff talking to infant hareton after hindley's death] ". . . previous to following with Hareton, he lifted the unfortunate child on to the table and muttered, with peculiar gusto, 'Now, my bonny lad, you are mine! And we'll see if one tree won't grow as crooked as another, with the same wind to twist it!' The unsuspecting thing was pleased at this speech: he played with Heathcliff's whiskers, and stroked his cheek . . ."
heathcliff, 3 seconds after marrying isabella:
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The attraction and shared isolation of the siblings locates the work as operating in the tradition of Wuthering Heights, which Finney describes as an example of ‘the siblings-as-soulmates configuration’ […] in terms of the protagonists’ common status as outsiders and their incestuous love that transcends the values of the society that rejects them and the event of death itself. [...]
The consequences of denying the incestuous element of Catherine and Heathcliff ’s relationship are a denial of their love and a reduction of it to a pathological egotism. When, for example, Thormählen states that ‘I have avoided referring to the bond between Catherine and Heathcliff as “love” … because the nature of their passions fits no description of the concepts known to me’, she disregards the established conventions of Gothic and Romantic incest in which the representation of their love is, in part, grounded.
— J. Diplacidi, Gothic incest: Gender, sexuality and transgression
Cathy and Heathcliff reach in death what they possessed in this world when they were unself-conscious children, and did not know of their separateness. They reach peace not through obedient acceptance of isolation, but through the final exhaustion of all their forces in the attempt to reach union in this life. Their heroism is, in Georges Bataille’s phrase, an “approbation of life to the point of death.”
— J. Hillis Miller, The Disappearance of God: Five Nineteenth Century Writers
SUPERNATURAL + WUTHERING HEIGHTS
for @wincestwednesdays prompt: American Gothic (pt 2: Endings)
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period drama + 🌕🌙
ANNE WITH AN E (2017 - 2019)
MR. MALCOLM'S LIST (2022)
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE (2005)
CRIMSON PEAK (2015)
WUTHERING HEIGHTS (2011)
THE HANDMAIDEN (2016)
BRIDGERTON (2020 - )
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〜 kate bush in wuthering heights ( 1978 ) !
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Wuthering Heights but all the characters just shout "Objection!" at eachother (basically WH if it was ace attorney)
Oh absolutely.
The breakdown sprites??? They would work SO well with WH characters.
Honestly I think I became obsessed with Wuthering Heights for a lot of the same reasons I became obsessed with Ace Attorney. They're both full of characters who are really weird, incredibly overdramatic assholes. Both full of ghosts, relationship drama, death, and violence. I also feel like there's an overlap in the sense of humor both works have, but I can't quite put it into words.
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