#mr. earnshaw

[faintingheroine]

Look, Emily Brontë may have intended for Heathcliff to be Mr. Earnshaw’s illegitimate child. Maybe I am ignorant. That’s possible. But if I accept this as a fact, it significantly hurts my enjoyment of the book because I feel that it renders Heathcliff’s revenge moot, as I have said years ago:

“The whole story of Wuthering Heights is Heathcliff taking revenge on the power structures that separated him from Catherine. Catherine and Heathcliff were separated because Catherine was the daughter of a propertied man and the potential wife of an another while Heathcliff was a nobody with nothing. Heathcliff takes the properties of both Catherine’s father and her husband, thus taking revenge on the forces that separated them. If the primary cause of their separation was incest and not any sociological or economic reason then the whole plot of Wuthering Heights is meaningless. Incest factor will always be more important than social class. If this theory were true, Heathcliff wouldn’t be unable to be with Catherine because he didn’t own Thrushcross Grange, it would be because he was her brother, so it would be meaningless for him to own Thrushcross Grange as a way of revenge.”

This is my position. It has always been my stance on it. This is the most important thing to me. I enjoy this story primarily as a revenge story and Heathcliff and Catherine being related destroys the purpose and meaning of the revenge in my eyes. For the last couple of days I have really tried to still enjoy Wuthering Heights while accepting Heathcliff as Mr. Earnshaw’s biological son and I simply can’t do it. It fundamentally changes the story in my eyes and makes it something I like much less. I just love Heathcliff being a rando.

#wuthering heights #heathcliff #mr. earnshaw #the bastard child theory

[bethanydelleman]

Sir Thomas Bertram 🤝 Mr. Earnshaw

Decides to take in and raise a child on a whim, and then knowing that his heir/eldest son is unwilling or unable to take care of that child, does absolutely nothing to secure the child's future...

#Fanny Price is very lucky that Sir Thomas didn't die in Antigua #Why did Mr. Earnshaw give Heathcliff nothing when he knew his son hated him? #wuthering heights #mansfield park #sir thomas #mr. earnshaw #fanny price #heathcliff

[incorrectwutheringheightsquotes]

Me: But why does Mr. Earnshaw prefer Heathcliff to his biological children?

Them: You see, Mr. Earnshaw is not actually an Earnshaw. He was a lowly distant cousin adopted by the Earnshaw family since they didn’t have sons and he was given the Earnshaw surname and was married off to an Earnshaw daughter. His wife is the Earnshaw one.

Me: Wow! I knew that the Japanese sometimes did things like this but this is the first time I am hearing that English people also did this!

Them: Earnshaws did. How do you think the Earnshaw male line survived and occupied the same farmhouse for three hundred years?

Me: I see. Then Mr. Earnshaw empathizes with Heathcliff because they are in a similar situation. Like how Heathcliff later empathizes with Hareton for similar reasons. A parallel, I like it!

Them: Not quite.

Me: How?

Them: You see, one day in a particularly heated argument Mrs. Earnshaw insulted Mr. Earnshaw by saying that he is a freeloader and that they are living in her house, not his. Mrs. Earnshaw immediately apologized but Mr. Earnshaw’s heart was already broken and he colded towards his wife. Soon afterwards their little second son Heathcliff died. Mr. Earnshaw went away in grief and struck up an affair with a random Romani woman.

Me: A weird thing to do after your son’s death! But I guess I shouldn’t judge how people process their grief.

Them: Yes. Soon he tired of this Romani woman and broke up with her, but she was already pregnant and she gave birth. In dying seven years later she entrusted their son to Mr. Earnshaw’s keeping.

Me: …And Mr. Earnshaw named the boy Heathcliff! That was a cruel thing to do to his wife, naming his bastard son after their dead baby. Mr. Earnshaw is more vengeful than Heathcliff I would say! But I still don’t get why he preferred this boy to Hindley and Cathy.

Them: You see, Hindley and Cathy were considered true-born Earnshaws and were raised in privilege. Mr. Earnshaw couldn’t connect with them. Whereas he thought of Heathcliff as his son.

Me: A weird sort of logic but I think I get it. How much of a role had Heathcliff’s mother played in this? Did Mr. Earnshaw love her?

Them: What love??! Of course he loved Mrs. Earnshaw! Not the Romani woman! The Romani woman was just a way for Mr. Earnshaw to process the grief caused by Mrs. Earnshaw’s words and by their son’s death.

Me: Your heated reaction to my question is extreme and I think a bit racist. Are you in denial about Mr. Earnshaw loving the Romani woman more?

Them: I won’t entertain this line of questioning. You are losing the sight of more important things.

Me: Like incest between Heathcliff and Cathy and this all ruining the motives of Heathcliff’s revenge?

Them: No! Like how Mr. Earnshaw and Heathcliff’s relationship mirrors Heathcliff and Hareton’s relationship.

Me: But I already remarked on this parallel at the beginning of the conversation?

Them: Okay, now write an essay about it.

Me: I still think that you are in denial about Mr. Earnshaw loving the Romani woman more.

The End

#wuthering heights #heathcliff #mr. earnshaw #magnificent century #muhteşem yüzyıl #esmanur

[princesssarisa]

How would you describe Heathcliff’s position in the Earnshaw household? Is he a proper adopted son, a brother to Hindley and Cathy? Is he a foster child? A ward? A glorified pet?

1995 radio drama has Heathcliff call Mr. Earnshaw “master” and another radio drama had him call him “father” and both sound wrong to me.

I'd say "foster child" or "ward." He's definitely not a proper adopted son, because he's not given the Earnshaw surname and because Mr. Earnshaw calls him a "poor fatherless child" even after he's settled in their home. That said, Mr. Earnshaw does treat him like a son. First of all, he favors him above his own children (though if I remember correctly, you've sometimes questioned whether he really did favor him that much or whether Nelly just slants the story that way – a valid question to ask), but even beyond that, Heathcliff is raised as an equal to Hindley and Cathy. He doesn't work to earn his keep, he shares a bedroom and bed with Cathy like a sibling, and he gets a horse as a gift at the same time Hindley does.

Maybe a case could be made for "glorified pet," because even Mr. Earnshaw describes him in dehumanizing terms ("...though it’s as dark almost as if it came from the devil"), and because for all his affection for Heathcliff, he takes no legal action to protect him from Hindley after his death. Although I'm not sure if there was much he could have done; even if he had left Heathcliff an inheritance of his own, Heathcliff is still a minor when Mr. Earnshaw dies, so Hindley would still have become his guardian. Still, "foster child" or "ward" are the terms I would use. And I agree that neither "Master" nor "Father" seem right for Heathcliff to call Mr. Earnshaw. I imagine he would have just said "Mr. Earnshaw," the same way Hareton later calls him "Mr. Heathcliff."

#wuthering heights #heathcliff #mr. earnshaw #character analysis

[unamazing-sheep21]

What is this genre of character called. Byronic heroine. Byronic villainess. Some secret crazier third thing, we will never know.

What we do know is that they would get along great and make the most unhinged band ever.

Characters ( from left to right): Lucille Sharpe ( Crimson Peak), Catherine Earnshaw/Linton ( Wuthering Heights), Bertha Mason Rochester ( Jane Eyre), and Rebecca de Winter ( Rebecca)

#jane eyre #classic litterature #edward rochester #mr rochester #gothic romance #byronic hero #charlotte bronte #crimson peak #crimson peak fanart #lucille sharpe #wutheringposting #wuthering heights #catherine earnshaw #rebecca das musical #rebecca daphne du maurier #rebecca de winter #bertha mason #emily bronte #heathcliff wuthering heights #weezer

[amphibimations]

Wuthering Heights comic 03- Lantern

#wuthering heights #mr. lockwood #heathcliff #hareton earnshaw #comic #comics #webcomic

[melonisopod]

Spoilers for Canto VI part 2

Headpats and ear scritches could have saved him.

#limbus company #canto vi spoilers #his whole situation is fucked up and sad i kinda cried a little reading his rant #it's really something this game can make me feel bad for hindley of all people #but man mr. earnshaw speedran a way to fuck up three kids at once #anyway. i love this version of him god he's so cute #I CAN'T BELIEVE LIMBUS COMPANY MAKES ME FEEL THIS WAY ABOUT *HINDLEY*

[salt-cedar]

Re-read the book and remembered that actually no one refers to Heathcliff as Cathy's or Hindley's brother, like, ever, even at the time mr. Earnshaw was alive. So, the interpretation of Heathcliff and Cathy's relationship as symbolically incestuous is completely out of the left field. However, if you read the Wuthering Heights as a sort of family saga where the broader themes are developed in different ways through different generations of one family, Heathcliff is absolutely a part of Earnshaw clan with its core theme of being unforgiving and vengeful. And I am adamant that in that sense Nelly is also an Earnshaw sibling.

(plus her being Hindley's foster sister because her mother nursed Hindley, which makes her care about Hindley and Hareton a lot despite them both being horrible. She is kind of mirroring Cathy in that way).

#in the beginning mr Earnshaw promises to bring her sweets from his trip to Liverpool #and just like Cathy and Hindley she ends up without a gift presumably because of Heatcliff #maiking her resentful of him and seeing that as the beginning of the end #do you see what I see? #wuthering heights #wutheringposting

[spookycathymorshaw]

#polls #wuthering heights #gothic lit #bronte sisters #emily bronte #hareton earnshaw #catherine earnshaw #catherine linton #cathy earnshaw #cathy linton #mr lockwood #heathcliff #edgar linton #linton heathcliff #isabella linton #nelly

[deadguydeathmatch]

Elimination Round 1: Poll 4

#tournament polls #galivar kholin #stormlight archive spoilers #mr boddy clue #clue movie #seth gordon #all for the game spoilers #horst cabal #johannes cabal spoilers #catherine earnshaw #wurthering heights #johannes cabal #all for the game #stormlight archive #elimination round #elimination round 1

[velvet4510]

#classic books #classic literature #little women #jane austen #pride and prejudice #elizabeth bennet #mr darcy #mr rochester #jane eyre #charlotte brontë #emily bronte #wuthering heights #heathcliff #catherine earnshaw #jane bennet #mr bingley #meg march #jo march #laurie laurence #amy march #john brooke #friedrich bhaer #literary polls #mr knightley #emma woodhouse #george knightley #fitzwilliam darcy #charles bingley #edward rochester #literary couples

[faintingheroine]

I admire Emily Brontë for having Mr. Earnshaw randomly bring home a foreign-looking kid from Liverpool and for resisting the temptation to explain Heathcliff’s origins away in the book in any way. I like this fairy tale beginning and don’t find anything shady or conspiratorial about it, but one still has to admire Emily Brontë’s extreme confidence.

Minae Mizumura in her more sociologically-oriented retelling set in postwar-Japan is at pains to explain how Heathcliff (Taro) and Cathy (Yoko) could come to be childhood friends at all. As Mizumura explains, love between her Catherine and Heathcliff is “an accident of history”. A lot of things had to happen for them to be able to know each other.

While I am definitely not equating myself to Mizumura, I also had to come up with an elaborate explanation of how Heathcliff came to be fostered by “Eyrnshaws” in my Asoiaf AU.

Not everyone can pull off “patriarch came home with a random dark-skinned child off the streets one day and said “let’s raise him”” with as much confidence and as convincingly as Emily Brontë. Like, she gave us nearly nothing and it was convincing enough for most readers. She really was a genius.

#wuthering heights #a true novel #minae mizumura #asoiaf #my fanfic #heathcliff #mr. earnshaw

[oedipushansen]

poor heathcliff :(

#reading wuthering heights right now #& it's the part where they talk abt how he lived with mr earnshaw #poor baby #txt

[fairyopalz]

what do you MEAN re-reading wuthering heights volume 1 isn’t a valid form of therapy?

#literature #literary memes #classic literature #classical literature #wuthering heights #emily bronte #mr heathcliff #catherine earnshaw

[recallthename]

i think about wuthering heights basically daily regardless, but man when i’m doing a reread it gets so fucking intense

#kat reads wuthering heights #this reread is specifically about how brilliant and layered the character and relationship parallels are #cathy/heathfcliff vs nelly/hindley #cathy/heathcliff/hindley vs cathy2/hareton/linton #heathcliff vs mr. earnshaw #cathy/heathcliff/edgar vs cathy2/hareton/linton but ALSO cathy2/hareton/lockwood #mr. earnshaw/heathcliff vs heathcliff/hareton #it's endless!! #and so fucking fascinating!!! #goddamn it bronte!

[auralaesthetics]

Unpopular opinion but I like Matthew McFadyen better as Hareton Earnshaw than Mr. Darcy

#Matthew McFadyen #Hareton Earnshaw #Mr. Darcy #Pride and Prejudice #Pride and Prejudice 2005 #Wuthering Heights #His Mr. Darcy never did anything for me