Prompted by this post on Pajiba (you can read it
here) and subsequent discussion, I had to go and watch the recent Masterpiece Theater production of Wuthering Heights. Gotta say, Tom Hardy is IMO the douchiest Heathcliff of them all, and that's really saying something, considering that Heathcliff is perhaps the douchiest character in all of English
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I read WH at school and then at University. I got a lot more out of it the second time, mainly because I could see how actually Heathcliffe was a horrible abusive twatbag, rather than OH HE SO IN LOVE HE CANNOT CONTROL HIMSELF. Although I didn't find him sexy, maybe we read it a bit young, I think my class was 13/14 maybe?
I was quite glad when Cathy died. And Edgar.
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Also, you bring up a really interesting point about bloodlines. If Mr.Earnshaw was Heathcliff's dad, then he and Cathy were half-brother and -sister (gosh, wonder where VC Andrews got her ideas from?) and then l'il Cathy goes and hooks up with both her cousins (Hareton after Linton dies). Not that hooking up with your cousin was any big deal then, but it's still pretty sketchy.
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Cousin marriage is still legal in the UK! Has been since the 16th century. Increasingly seen as a bit icky, but still pretty common in Muslim arranged marriages.
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BTW, I thought cousin marriage was outlawed in the US, but APPARENTLY NOT!
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After Rochester can we have Darcy please?
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You can't marry former step parents though. Or adopted/step children. So Woody Allen would be in trouble.
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So many questions.
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