Wuthering heights - new versions

It is my favourite novel of all time. I first read it when I found a copy at my Grandma’s house when I was 9 years old. I have lost count of the number of times I have read it since, certainly up in the teens. It has never been brought successfully to the screen in my opinion. The book has depth which cannot be translated other than on the page.

The past is another country. they do it differently there.

I think the original post was about this new version coming out on Valentine’s Day and selling it as a romantic film. It is a dark novel and yes we should read it and share with any young daughters and granddaughters but not as a romantic ideal.

Also I still hear people tell little girls, boy pull their hair and so on because they like them. We must teach our girls this is never acceptable.

Arto1s

It is my favourite novel of all time. I first read it when I found a copy at my Grandma’s house when I was 9 years old. I have lost count of the number of times I have read it since, certainly up in the teens. It has never been brought successfully to the screen in my opinion. The book has depth which cannot be translated other than on the page.

I totally agree.

Oh my! Have people ever read the Bible??

I re-read this book as an adult and found Heathcliff repulsive, but yet the novel is a tour de force that cannot be discounted and has to be read in the context of how it came to be written.

The Bronte sisters survived such heartbreak as children and therefore these experiences culminated the some of the greatest works in the English Language.

As for film- it can never truly reproduce the complexity of this novel and was written to be read, not watched.

The Bronte style literature hearkens back to the Gothik novel so popular in the late 18th -19th century. I do not consider Wuthering Heights a 'tour de force' I find it overcooked nonsense.

Jane Eyre is a tour de force, but If I am in the mood for a Bronte, I turn to Anne Bronte, a hugely undervalued writer, who drew on what she saw happening in the families she was governess in to write two superb novels -Agnes Grey - about being a governess in a wealthy family and later -The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - which features the appalling plight of a woman trapped in a violent and abusive marriage at a tie when there really was little or no way out. A situation too common in the period. Anne Bronte's novels are about reality and life in a certain social group of the period.

My opinion of Wuthering Heights is, and will remain, that it is a grossly over-rated book.

Don’t hold back Monica 😁

‘Jane Eyre’ always has been and always will be ,my go to Brontë book. But I did read ‘Wuthering Heights’ for my degree. I was slightly surprised that there was a much darker second ‘half’. Very rarely shown in films. I dislike the book and do not find anything romantic about Heathcliff.
I think I agree with MOnica .

M0nica

The Bronte style literature hearkens back to the Gothik novel so popular in the late 18th -19th century. I do not consider Wuthering Heights a 'tour de force' I find it overcooked nonsense.

Jane Eyre is a tour de force, but If I am in the mood for a Bronte, I turn to Anne Bronte, a hugely undervalued writer, who drew on what she saw happening in the families she was governess in to write two superb novels -Agnes Grey - about being a governess in a wealthy family and later -The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - which features the appalling plight of a woman trapped in a violent and abusive marriage at a tie when there really was little or no way out. A situation too common in the period. Anne Bronte's novels are about reality and life in a certain social group of the period.

My opinion of Wuthering Heights is, and will remain, that it is a grossly over-rated book.

I completely agree about Anne Bronte's novels. She is often dismissed as the 'quiet' one but yet her writing is very preceptive and has a lot to say about the situation of women we can still apply to today's perspectives.

I don't agree though, that the Bronte's novels hearkened back to earlier forms- they were quite ground-breaking and WH must be considered entirely original and has never been matched since- in its composition, characters and sheer creative energy.

I started to watch the Lawrence Olivier version last night, (preferable to the angst of Strictly and actually quite similar in being over the top emotionally) and was rather impressed by his interpretation. Only ever seen clips before.