Wuthering Heights: Emily Brontë’s Misunderstood Masterpiece | SLICE WHO | FULL DOCUMENTARY

[@aurionc2468]

My goodness - when I scrolled across this thumbnail, I certainly wasn’t expecting one of the most original, diverse, beautiful and layered a revelation as this was. As a POC, I had no idea of the threads of abolition and empire ‘detritus’ that, for lack of a better word, color this deeply humane and enigmatic world of Emily’s imagination, and would later saturate her moors, her mortals, and her Heights.

[@PozoBlue]

Well that is mostly made up speculation and outright lies from that guy. Emily clearly and repeatedly describes Heathcliff as a black haired "gypsy", not black. The characters call him a "gipsy brat", "you, gipsy", "gipsy in aspect". The story also takes place in the mid 1700s, almost a hundred years before the abolition of slavery. Dont know why this guy is peddling nonsense. Also ignores that Emily's father is irish and gipsy and irish black are cultural terms that had a very specific meaning back then. Essentially meant looking latin (having black hair, dark eyes, skin more tan than the usual super pale white of the irish) as there was a myth then about a ship of spaniards that had shipwrecked in ireland and they imagined that was the origin of darker haired olive skinned irish who they called "black irish" (a lot of the time this was also a demeaning name used for poorer folk who were field laborers and had darkened skin from the sun). In reality the irish have a mix of southern and eastern european in the gene mix from the celts and other peoples that populated it. So you'll have ghostly pale irish and the dark haired, olive skin kind (the collin ferrell type). Those were who they called dark and or gypsy...or actual gypsies. This documentary is ridiculous for ommitting the actual descriptions in the book and what those terms meant back then. Just makes up fantasies instead.

[@kyleethekelt]

I feel I have always understood Heathcliff from my first reading at aged 12. as a blind white girl growing up in a special school I knew little of slavery and the politics of otherness, but my heart broke for a young boy who wished he had different coloured skin and hair. I just wished someone had, even once, hugged him and reassured him he was fine as he was. Although I now know otherness I can only imagine what it may have been to live in a community where no one else looks, speaks or acts like you. I also understood the huge societal pressures on Catherine to be the kind of person she simply was not. By the time she found that out she was too psychologically damaged to survive. From this wonderful presentation, and from what I hear and read, Emily was a very self-contained person. So, perhaps she also warns in this work that we risk eventual trouble by our obsession with standardising our fellow human being in look, ability, behaviour and culture. There is only so much people can tolerate before they are irreparably damaged, whether they're a Heathcliff or a catherine.

[@harmoniabalanza]

I think you are absolutely right and have hit on something that is key to why the world is so messed up. People must be who they are in their own souls or they are doomed. So few are themselves, and the world is populated by the walking doomed. So many living in a false self. Emily knew this.

[@SonjaBadrock]

Spot on

[@Autumn-Rain1122]

Please, Catherine. Appear before me and tear me asunder. Let me see your eyes as I expire.

[@aprilsky8474]

I really enjoyed this. Wuthering Heights is my favourite novel. Thank you for the upload. It was really good.

[@erendirarios6526]

What a marvelous introspection on Wuthering heights! I am deeply enjoying watching this!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

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[@ekteboi4179]

One other aspect I found interesting is how it's such a good portrait of what happens when people are bored, isolated, and estranged from the world as happens with these bourgeousie. Especially Edgar's daughter Cathy portrays this very accurately just from the mere lengths she goes to take care of sobbing, unbearable Linton who she, in almost these words: ''loves only because he loves her and gives her something to care for in the world in the form of his illness and ill behaviour.'' And for lack of any other suitors, this affection is quickly transported to Earnshaw. Cathy's permanent challenge in life was finding something to get her out of these houses, or something to give her life meaning. Otherwise, she was basically a puppet wilting away. I was very moved by how you could just feel that she had a lot of love to give to ppl and world but wasnt given opportunity to do so. edit: during her youth. ofc this luckily turns for the better. I think the same isolation enabled the characters in the story, doomed to live only among themselves, to endure so much from each other, and simultaneously hold grudges against each other so enduringly. My first thought was always: why haven't they long killed Heathcliff or called authorities upon him? How can Heathcliff be so obsessed to carry over his revenge for decades? The isolation feeds the tragedy of some deep family, or familial bond (including servants who became just as implicated) that completely destroys the common sense that less isolated people normally wield in human relationships. Anyway, great book. Some of the prose is also pure, pure poetry.

[@NgocTran-nf5hr]

👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️What an enlightened analysis!

[@harmoniabalanza]

The part of yourself that you hate will get revenge.

[@harmoniabalanza]

actually, it's not an immoral book--it's a cautionary tale. But we are prone to glamorize and romanticize tragic potboilers. This novel is really under it all, a metaphysical exploration of the needs of the soul, and how its own sins deform it. Cathy is a textbook case of the divided self. In Christian terms (and E Bronte was a parson's daughter) a soul that has wandered too far from God, her Self. Heathcliff is part of her soul, and one's self betrayed will avenge with various methods. In the modern world, it's addiction, neurosis, failure, vice, inhumanity to others, etc etc. I believe Cathy was looking for a Heathcliff, (she was transgressive and a wild tomboy as a child) found his pure love, and trampled on it, destroying them both. Bronte wasn't afraid to show it as intensely as she did in order to say this is a real peril in humanity, but ir's wrong and it brings misery. And the Japanese director focused on this through the breaking of the incest and grave desecration taboos.

[@Mandibil]

They wrote a few books each, and then they are suddenly all geniuses ?

[@AndyJonson-m1q]

Great genetics and mutual aspirations.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Much incredible ,truthful loves stories are obtainable from roadside harlots memories or highly class wives loved teenagers memories ... and gang youths' adventures ... not from the isolated , closed-minded woman.

[@4evergogo]

Just wow. 🖤

[@Aussie00]

Surprises me that these women who are undoubtedly knowledgeable about the Brontë sisters mispronounce their name, it is Bron-tee, not Bron-tay.

[@jorvikaengelskvinna7157]

It is Bront-tay.

[@Aussie00]

@jorvikaengelskvinna7157 the 'e' on the end has an ambulant diacritic over it, so no it IS Bron-tee

[@jorvikaengelskvinna7157]

@@Aussie00 The diacritic over an 'e' may sometimes be pronounced as 'i' (as in Zoë) or 'ay' (as in Nimuë). After years of postgraduate study and teaching of Classical English literature, I have always pronounced Brontë as Bron-tay, as has every person I have studied or taught with. However, those who pronounce it Bron-tee are free to do so. I have heard it pronounced both ways in Haworth - but considering the old Reverend's Irish accent, I imagine he himself would have pronounced it closer to Bron-tay.

[@xsamrx4718]

It’s Bront-tay. I usually see Americans pronouncing it as Bront-tee. I've been to Haworth, they say Bront-tay. The specialists who have studied the Bronte’s say Bront-tay as it’s correctly pronounced. Bronte-tee is incorrectly pronounced.

[@charlottebruce979]

It's a very juvenile and chaotically written novel that kills off the only interesting character, catherine fairly early on. Its author to me was probably autistic and lived very much in her own world so that the human unteractions in the book appear immature and the characters just brutish. The only thing that saves this juvenile work is the way Emily writes about love and passion, something which she would never have experienced. Now that to me is puzzling .

[@jorvikaengelskvinna7157]

The book is in fact very tightly structured.

[@mesamies123]

​@@jorvikaengelskvinna7157 Yes. It's a masterpiece.

[@xsamrx4718]

Just because Autistic people struggle to communicate with others, doesn't mean they don't observe. They observe better than neurotypicals. The book is a masterpiece about human cruelty and about two toxic people loving the only way they know how. Emily wasn't afraid to write about the ugly things, or bend to religion like she was taught. She was more intelligent than people believe. I do believe she was Autistic and I actually believe Charlotte could possibly be as she wrote Jane Eyre who is an Autistic character. Their father was also unusual. All 3 sisters were geniuses that still to this day people love their novels.

[@Autumn-Rain1122]

I only know about Wuthering Heights because of Limbus Company! :3

[@kyleethekelt]

@@xsamrx4718Yes, yes and yes. 👏👏