Heathcliff is the original man who will do *literally* anything else except go to therapy.
Use children as pawns in a Xanatos gambit to snatch up land just to make the people he sees as slighting him miserable? Yep. Abuse a dog to demonstrate control? Yep.
Why does this get sold as "the greatest love story" again? Like greatest petty revenge story, yes. Love story? Eh. There are love stories here but they're so not the point.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Note: There are some spoilers below for a book that is almost 200 years old. This is a book I read to fill gaps in my having read The Great Books. It is pitched as "the greatest romance." In my understanding of the Romance genre, that is not a true statement. This may be a Romantic (as in the aesthetic movement of the early 19th century) novel but it is certainly not a Romance (as in a story regarding a growing relationship between two or more characters which must by genre convention end in […]https://alexanderkeane.com/2026/03/08/wuthering-heights-by-emily-bronte/
https://youtu.be/6ROhwBYTBko?si=1qZWmFCYV1CPj9hY
Unlike my other reviews, this one has two very general comments that are related to the plot... they are not true spoilers because they are so vague.
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#bronte (2)
I actually found the stories had similar themes to #kdrama ! Mainly parental deaths and marriage/love between classes.
Brontes include much more wild moors, big houses, less umbrellas, more clergy and governesses ( as were their real lives)
An interesting interlude to Kdrama, do I return to love in Korea, or carry on with English classics ( Jane Austen)?
ION, I just finished watching a TV version of "Jane Eyre", meaning I've watched the three big novels ("Wuthering Heights" "The Tenant of Windfall Hall") over 2 weeks, including a film on lives of Brontë family.
Jane Eyre is the only one I've actually read - 30 years ago - and I had forgotten the bulk of it.
The film about the family answered the question I had: why were all the novels written at the same time? The themes are similar, so I can understand the publisher's confusion (1) #bronte