Wuthering Heights Reading Group

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I am interested in what may be seen not as love but as mystical ties. I've never explored this before.

For heaven's sake! That is exactly what I was looking for! The superimposition of Charlotte onto Emily after Emily's death.

Do you refer to the entire book? Because my problem is with Part 2 Ch.15 onwards. Arbitrary, on my part, I suppose, since I hadn't read it before. Compared to Part 1, it seems to me to be another book with other characters.

Ch.15 reads like a warning, or perhaps a smoothing over, of what's about to come and giving excuses. Time is not much of an excuse for a complete darkening of all characters. Was it Charlotte or Emily who sat there smoothing unbelief even as she begins?

Here is my scribbling from this evening, after finishing the whole book.

Nooooo.... you didn't actually draw that?!
Feels? ... Really? That's phenomenal! His stages of evil! You are so talented in so many ways! I'm in awe!

I love the sullen young expression. Perhaps that's when he conned Hindley of his pony. Scoundrel.

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I’m disppointed with the one with the teeth - not evil enough. thanks for your compliment, a lot of time my drawing doesnt work, but I was inspired to drawHeathcliff.

Over the moor, take me to the moor
Dig a shallow grave
And I'll lay me down
Over the moor, take me to the moor
Dig a shallow grave
And I'll lay me down
Lesley-Anne, with your pretty white beads
Oh John, you'll never be a man
And you'll never see your home again
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for
Edward, see those alluring lights ?
Tonight will be your very last night
A woman said : "I know my son is dead
I'll never rest my hands on his sacred head"
Hindley wakes and Hindley says :
Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says :
"Oh, wherever he has gone, I have gone"
But fresh lilaced moorland fields
Cannot hide the stolid stench of death
Fresh lilaced moorland fields
Cannot hide the stolid stench of death
Hindley wakes and says :
Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, Hindley wakes, and says :
"Oh, whatever he has done, I have done"
But this is no easy ride
For a child cries :
"Oh, find me...find me, nothing more
We are on a sullen misty moor
We may be dead and we may be gone
But we will be, we will be, we will be, right by your side
Until the day you die
This is no easy ride
We will haunt you when you laugh
Yes, you could say we're a team
You might sleep
You might sleep
You might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !
Oh, you might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !
You might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !"
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for
Oh Manchester, so much to answer for
Oh, find me, find me !
Find me !
I'll haunt you when you laugh
Oh, I'll haunt you when you laugh
You might sleep
BUT YOU WILL NEVER DREAM !
Oh...
Over the moors, I'm on the moor
Oh, over the moor
Oh, the child is on the moor

Steven Morrissey -- The Smiths, 1984

(I know this song is unrelated, but I can't help associating it with WH)

Spooky reference to the * moor murders. Cant remember the name but I remember Myra Hindley!

Amazing artwork!

Thank you. Dartmoor.

Wonderful, wondrous drawings!
How grand that you have a talent to show me what you see.
That most mature Heathcliff is exactly what was/is my mind.
The other two are less developed in my own mind.
The oldest Heathcliff is the one that annoys me most.
Also where we read about his terrible face so much.
Thank you for sharing them!

Listen to this incredibly beautiful song celebrating Emily's poetry!

for Red

AUTISM AND EMILY

An interesting read about Emily Brontë and her autistic characteristics.
I don't find it necessary to label her, but I love Emily for her ASD traits which are so similar to my own.

I read Wuthering Heights when I was about seventeen and found it one of the most boring books I'd ever read. A reading group for Jane Eyre or David Copperfield would be much better. Or Dostoyevsky for that matter.

Jane and Copperfield are both brilliant books, indeed. I prefer the detachment of Villette over Jane, however.