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Most people do, actually. If they're pretty and batshit crazy.
I guess that's true. I am actually a fan of fucked-up relationship sagas (S6 Buffy & Spike, Scotty and Madeleine from Vertigo, etc.) but "romantic" ain't why I like them. Plus, instead of getting me to revel in their glorious dysfunction or some such, Cathy and Heathcliff just made me roll my eyes a lot, alternating with a violent urge to whack them on their stupid heads with frying pan.
If they're pretty and batshit crazy.
I'm sorry, no matter how pretty Heathcliff may be, I consider puppy-murdering a characteristic that removes him from the "romantic hero" competition. Give me a guy with a mad wife in the attic any day.
Heathcliff is canonically ugly. Ugly ugly ugly.
Heathcliff is canonically ugly. Ugly ugly ugly.
Yes, this. I never thought of Heathcliff as a romantic hero, despite how movies have tried to portray him.
Heathcliff is canonically ugly. Ugly ugly ugly.
Angelina Jolie will be perfect. And Johnny Depp will be a great Cathy.
I've never gotten the appeal of Wuthering Heights. Two main characters who I want to slap, who are only alive for about twenty pages of the book? Bollocks to that. I'll have Mr. Rochester and the batshit secret in the attic, pleasethankyou.
I don't know...I like the language in it. But I think it's one of those love it or hate it books. And if you miss it at the "Right" age, you may never get the love. I was...mid-teens somewhere.
I was about sixteen, I think. Maybe I missed the boat. I was already an incurable cynic at that point. Jane Eyre is still one of my favourite books though.
I was already an incurable cynic at that point. Jane Eyre is still one of my favourite books though.
Hm...Jane/Rochester strikes me as far less cynical a love story than Cathy/Heathcliff, but it's been ages since I read either one. (I loved Jane Eyre as a kid, but when I reread it in high school, Jane annoyed me far too much for me to want her to end up happy.)
Hm...Jane/Rochester strikes me as far less cynical a love story than Cathy/Heathcliff, but it's been ages since I read either one.
Isn't a cynic just a romantic who's lived too long? And in some ways it is a far more traditionally romantic text, but I always felt it was far more honest, too.