[oikqwas]

Currently reading Wuthering Heights

[dahlia-coccinea]

I've really struggled finding good quality of the illustrations for this edition!!

[lessnearthesun]

All I ask for, ALL I ask for is a good adaptation of Wuthering Heights. JUST ONE (1). I’m talking an Emmy winning six episode mini series. That is literally all I want in this life

[dahlia-coccinea]

yes pls :')

[dahlia-coccinea]

It appears the full 1970 adaptation of Wuthering Heights is on YouTube if anyone is interested...

[thebellekeys]

"Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you - haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe - I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!"

- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)

[dahlia-coccinea]

On that one question I answered about Catherine's illness and her feeling alienated by her surroundings - I have a feeling people might read that and say she's simply alienated by Thrushcross Grange. That is certainly part of it, but I don't know that she would have been healed entirely by returning to Wuthering Heights. And we can't forget her childhood dreaming of being a part of Thrushcross, and also her daughter's eventual return to it.

[dahlia-coccinea]

Wuthering Heights for babies

[dahlia-coccinea]

“Certainly much of what Isabella utters in her dialogue with Nelly in Chapter 17, and indeed of what Heathcliff himself has already said about the nature of Isabella’s love for him is, psychologically speaking, remarkably modern, not only through her readiness to subject herself time and again to his cruelty or through the sadistic and masochistic feelings underlying her talk about killing or being killed by Heathcliff, but also by the way in which, notwithstanding her rage against him, she keeps hinting at, and even hoping for, a reconciliation between them.”

This is from Tytler’s analysis of Isabella. Do you agree with it?

Hello, I hope you are well!! I don't believe I've read the essay that this excerpt is from - or at least it isn't ringing a bell. Without more context, I'm inclined to disagree with him. I don't know exactly what makes it modern. Certainly there are other abusive relationships in novels of the time or at least very complex interpersonal relationships (including ones from Emily's sister's novels). I think it is sometimes too easy, when reading a specific incidence, or a specific novel, to over estimate it's uniqueness. While Isabella and Heathcliff are unique, but I don't know if they are so unique so as to be modern. If that makes any sense haha.

Also I feel critiques can also sometimes be overly subjective based on the critics own experience - I feel someone else could easily say Isabella's "readiness to subject herself time and again to his cruelty" is overtly "traditional" depending on the reading.

[dahlia-coccinea]

hi sorry for the random question but i really like your opinions on your posts about wuthering heights, and i wanted to ask you, why do you think so many people describe catherine earnshaw as a narcissist? also it has always been somewhat unclear how she gets i’ll at the end of the first volume; is it self inflicted? what do you think are the motives for her behaviour in that context?

This message has been sitting in my inbox since this summer. So sorry! Also, I'm very glad someone enjoys my opinions of WH! I will keep this answer short for now and (hopefully) expand on this later - I think, in part, the reason people think Catherine is a narcissist is because of how she is portrayed in the film adaptations. She is almost always extremely petulant; in most instances, and anything that shows any softness is removed. I have always wanted to do a deep dive into each film and compare it to the book - that could be a project for 2024.

I think it doesn't entirely matter if Catherine's illness begins as something self-inflicted, for the sake of the story. She certainly does not do much to try and make herself better. But the story already has orphaned her, and her sister-in-law has died in childbirth, so she isn't unique, really. I think as time passes she is certainly motivated by the feeling there is no room for her in the world and she is determined to longer be a part of an alienating world...I actually think I'll have to think on this more. It's a strange juxtaposition because she's so often associated with nature and anything natural - but in her declarations at the end she also seems lost and foreign to her surroundings. It is a great question! It makes me think of Emily's other works. I might have to look into those more.

[heathcliffgirl1847]

having wuthering heights feelings so everyone has to look at this old drawing of baby heathcliff. im not saying he was justified but if everyone had been a bit nicer maybe he'd have turned out a bit normaller

[magicovento]

That's my fancast for wuthering heights

Danielle galligan as Catherine Earnshaw

Dev patel as Heathcliff

Toby regbo as Edgar Linton

Saoirse Ronan as Isabella Linton

Gifs by @closer-than-brothers @nowadayz @minho-knows @acecroft

[dahlia-coccinea]

I don't think I've seen Danielle Galligan in anything. My first impression is her face seems so serious and mature which I don't think suits Catherine.

I think I've said it before, but I could be totally onboard with Dev Patel as Heathcliff.

Toby Regbo could be an excellent Edgar.

I have to admit Saoirse seems like a very out there casting for Isabella. I always figured Isabella would have a baby face like Edgar.

[sansaorgana]

WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1992) female costumes • requested by anon

[faintingheroine-deactivated2024]

I don’t like what I have seen of this adaptation, but I like that apparently some effort was made to distinguish between the clothes Cathy 1 and Cathy 2 would wear in their respective teenage years.

[dahlia-coccinea]

Overall this adaptation was so underwhelming for me. Costume were definitely not bad though.

[mistressaccost]

cross stitches by bothy threads

[mathilda-1819-1820]

Happy Edgar Linton got applesauce poured on his head day.

[oldshrewsburyian]

I really love the composition of this illustration for Stave Four of A Christmas Carol, the dynamic lines that convey the sense of a cold wind, and how Scrooge seems almost to huddle in the lee of the insubstantial Spirit.

[dahlia-coccinea]

Would Linton be able to stay at Thrushcross Grange if Isabella told Nelly and Edgar he was not her biological son?

First, this question was apparently sent in November 2021 ?? How could time fly like that. Second, maybe I just don't remember the discussions that were going around that time - but this question seems a bit out of place. I think that it would be highly unlikely that Isabella could have passed Linton off as someone else's child. Just due to the circumstances of her leaving, I can't image Nelly or Edgar believing that, unless she quickly had remarried after the Heathcliff debacle.

That being said, I don't think it would have been strange for the time for them to put up a non-relation for sometime. Somewhat in the way that Heathcliff was put up at Wuthering Heights.

[dahlia-coccinea]

Has it really been 9 months since I've last logged on tumblr??

[ghostcheerio]

I had to reread Wuthering Heights for an English class and have become obsessed with it again, but then I remembered that I drew Heathcliff when I originally read it in 2020. I don’t know why I never posted it, as I’m still kind of proud of how it turned out!