07-31-2011, 07:33 AM
I think Heathcliff was a bit more complex than the box he is admittedly put in by critics and teachers. He was a child who was at once unfairly doted on by his foster father and unfairly abused by his foster brother. For me he was an argument for emotional consistency in childhood haha. I wish he'd lure me out on the moors, the filthy brute
I agree with you about Catherine, she is a rather typical romantic heroine, though her change in personality is a nice comment on Victorian society I think.
I fear I've never read Thackeray
Did he write Vanity Fair?
Thank you for the poem. I studied it briefly in high school, so it will be nice to appreciate it away from the confines of the classroom.
I agree with you about Catherine, she is a rather typical romantic heroine, though her change in personality is a nice comment on Victorian society I think.I fear I've never read Thackeray
Did he write Vanity Fair?Thank you for the poem. I studied it briefly in high school, so it will be nice to appreciate it away from the confines of the classroom.
"We believe that we invent symbols. The truth is that they invent us; we are their creatures, shaped by their hard, defining edges." - Gene Wolfe