good luck, babe!

Wuthering Heights illustrations by Rovina Cai

Wuthering Heights | Andrea Arnold | 2011

wuthering heights casting just getting funnier the longer i think about it. you cast barbie and ken as the leads of the most yucky disgusting repulsive monstrous grotesque (affectionate) romance of all time. took the two shiniest people you could find and dropped them in the middle of septic tank: the novel (affectionate, really cannot stress that enough). it's like spraying perfume on vomit. now it's gross in the wrong way, should have just left it alone.

John Everett Millais, Speak! Speak! (1895) // Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights (1847)

I cannot look down to this floor, but her features are shaped in the flags! In every cloud, in every tree - filling the air at night, and caught by glimpses in every object by day - I am surrounded with her image!

“I should be at the club” this “I should be at the club” that. Well for ME, I wish I were out of doors—I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy and free…and laughing at injuries, not maddening under them! Why am I so changed? Why does my blood rush into a hell of a tumult at a few words? I’m sure I should be myself were I once among the heather on those hills

Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

heathcliff and catherine may have had severe personality issues, but nothing will ever hit like “heʼs more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same” and “Nelly, I am Heathcliff!” hit.

“If all else perished, and he remained, I shall still continue to be, and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”

Wuthering Heights...

In oppressing others the exploiter imprisons himself; the adult Heathcliff's systemic tormenting is fed by his victims' pain but also drains him of blood, impels and possesses him as an external force. His alienation from Catherine estranges him from himself to the point where his brutalities become tediously perfunctory gestures, the mechanical motions of a man who is already withdrawing himself from his own body. Heathcliff moves from being Hindley's victim to becoming, like Catherine, his own executioner.

Catherine in chapter 12 of Wuthering Heights // Heathcliff in chapter 16 of Wuthering Heights

Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, 2011)

wuthering heights (2011, dir. andrea arnold)

Edvard Munch, Towards the Forest / Fritz Eichenberg, The Souls of Catherine and Heathcliff Reunited on the Moor