Dithering Heights
Excellent dissection from The Guardian of how Fennell missed (or ignored) the heart of Wuthering Heights: revenge, class struggle, power, racism, generational trauma:
It reminded me of reading and studying the novel in graduate school and being overwhelmed by all those things and even having nightmares. It was so dark.
Dare I confess I've never read the book? Wasn't my preferred choice of reading material, and never had it as assigned reading.
Wuthering Heights is a truly great and unbelievably dark novel. I once decided to teach it in one of my high school English classes, thinking the students would appreciate its beauty. Instead, they seemed traumatized. The behavior described is brutal and disturbing. Once I realized this, I never taught it again to sensitive adolescents.