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The flash of her eyes had been succeeded by a dreamy and melancholy softness;
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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"While one hates to reduce such a complex novel to a fable about a girl who refuses to grow up, it is Cathy herself who dreams of being back "home" at Wuthering Heights, a twelve-year-old again, so that "the whole last seven years of my life grew a blank." Her great description of that dream concludes, "I wish I were a girl again." While that is not possible, Cathy does the next best thing and perhaps even a better thing: she dies and in the process gives birth to herself, or at least to another little girl named Cathy who will relive her mother's life but choose, when the time comes, to grow up".
From ""Wuthering Heights and its "Spirit"" by Michael Popkin
"Perhaps even a better thing" sounds so sinister to me. A woman has to die if she made a mistake and is tainted by that mistake, and has to be reborn as her own pure, virginal, untainted daughter who will make the right choice.
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Heathcliff, it's me, I'm Cathy
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tragic fictional siblings... save me...
tragic fictional siblings
save me tragic fictional siblings
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if you’re cold, she’s cold. let her in your window
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
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Stories that would be improved by polyamory:
Dracula: it's basically a novel of kitchen-table polyamory already, but this way someone might actually kiss Jack Seward.
A Midsummer Night's Dream: just let them all have an orgy at the end. I feel like they'd be into it. Puck's invited too if he wants.
Bridget Jones' Diary: why force a choice between Mark and Daniel if there was the option to have both?
Any Arthuriana: less cheating, more honesty, fewer duels, more snogging, everyone's a winner.
Stories that would be made worse by polyamory:
Wuthering Heights: dear God do not give Cathy and Heathcliff a reason to drag more people into their terrible relationship than are already involved.
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Emily Brontë, from Wuthering Heights originally published c. 1847
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knuckle tats that say YSIK YHMT (acronym for "you said i killed you—haunt me, then!")
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i hate you romantically involved characters who talk to each other like they’re in a couples counseling session, i hate you watering down of the word toxic, i hate you plot twists where the male love interest is actually a villain because see, silly girl? in the REAL world guys like that are DANGEROUS, i hate you relationship therapist breaks down movie couple’s relationship videos, i hate you “romeo and juliet were just stupid horny teenagers” “belle had stockholm syndrome” “wuthering heights isn’t romantic” hot takes, i hate you sanitization of romance in fiction
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kate bush photographed by barry schultz, 1979💐
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He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Brontë / Wuthering Heights
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