Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë

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One-line summary: Broody McBrooderson starring in Emily Brontë's pioneering work of dysfunctional obsessive lovers may shed some light on why so many chicks dig Snape.

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[edenic]

I remember a girl in high school who always went on and on about Heathcliff. She thought he and Bob Dylan were her soulmates. At the time, I hadn't read the book; once I did, I couldn't believe anyone would consider Heathcliff the pinnacle of romance or his relationship with Cathy something to be emulated. I haven't read the book for several years, but from what I recall, I think I considered Hareton and Catherine's relationship to be Brontë's response to Heathcliff and Cathy's horrible "love." Sort of a 'This is how love should be.'

Your one-line summary was hilarious, but I disagree with your comparison of Snape and Heathcliff. I think Sidney Carton from A Tale of Two Cities is a much fitter parallel to Snape. I can't remember Heathcliff having any redeeming qualities at all, but Snape clearly does. And I think Snape would echo Carton's words as he went to his death: "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known

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True, I suppose you could say Heathcliff never really did complete his revenge. (He actually gives a speech to Nelly just before he dies about how he could still destroy them, but he just doesn't give a shit anymore.) By that point, I was actually surprised that Bronte was letting anyone escape alive and happy.

[koboldmaki]

I bow down to you not because of the seven adaptions, but because you actually made it through the last one, which I thought was called "Wuthering High" by the way, and now I'm disappointed it's not.

(There IS, however, a book called "Wuthering High" by author Cara Lockwood (coincdence?!), a boarding school teen thing with two follow-ups, "The Scarlett Letterman", and "Moby Clique", I thought everyone ought to know that.)

Anyway, I basically agree with everything you said about the book, only I could never make it through even one movie adaption because I hate the characters so much.