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fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

Wuthering Heights is at its heart a story of class and race. Emerald Fennell has got it all wrong | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Fennell's Wuthering Heights emphasizes teenage eroticism and romance, sidelining novel's themes of revenge, class struggle, racialized violence, power, and generational trauma.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

It's no romcom': why the real Wuthering Heights is too extreme for the screen

Wuthering Heights is repeatedly marketed as a great love story despite depicting class-driven rejection and Heathcliff's descent into violence, making full adaptation problematic.
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