Heathcliff, from Wuthering Heights, from psychotic villain to romantic hero, and what Jacob Elverdi does with him in his new (and incendiary) film adaptation |present

With the upcoming premiere of the new adaptation of Wuthering Heights, in which the highly sought-after Jacob Elordi breathes life into the legendary romantic hero, we wonder why

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Gender: Male.Age: Mid-20s Background: Child abandonment, abuse, severe social exclusion.Reasons for counseling: violent behavior, obsession, revenge, grief.Fear of abandonment, pathological emotions, systemic revenge, human and animal abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline and antisocial traits, pathological grief.

Regardless, the man we just laid in the psychiatrist's bed, Heathcliff, the male soul in Wuthering Heights, can still be felt today, 179 years after Emily Brontë wrote the only good novel, a romantic hero.This is almost always the case in surveys of the love of literature.

In this sense, it is not surprising that Hollywood saved the novel with the help of Margot Robbie, who not only starred in the new version, but also produced it, and decided to give the male lead to the current Sexiest Man, Jacob Elordi.And despite the fact that there are those doubting it, as writer Ann Tyler demonstrated in a 2015 New York Times article: "Somehow I came of age without reading Wuthering Heights, but I realized that many of my friends consider Heathcliff to be their favorite romantic hero of all time. So I immediately became three-quarters worried about my friends' mental health."

For the upcoming film we currently have some trailers that have been sparked contrants, though it is not to say anything at the time when anyone comes in trouble for anything.From one side, because Jacob Hyrdi is to clean (in original, he showed how sad).On the other hand, because of his lack of historical integrity (the costumes are left to the imagination of the costume designer, jacqueline durran, which prioritize successfully over viaismilivated).And also because of the signs that beyond wherevering heights, we will see a kind of tissumeth, ten kingdom is a key to 19th century.

It is not madness.In the novel, there is a lot of passion between the main characters... but no sex.In fact, this lack of physical relationships is the key to the novel.Because the love between the main characters is not carnal, but metaphysical (Catherine does not say "I want you", she says "I am Heathcliff").Also, the repressed desire incites violence, which is the central ingredient of the story, because it creates Heathcliff's obsession.Well, in the new version there is a lot of light and somehow happy (see trailer).

Anyway, what brings us here is Heathcliff, one of the most fascinating characters in universal literature.In the cinema, many people gave their lives, the most important are Lawrence Olivier (1939), Timothy Dalton (1970) and Ralph Fiennes (1992), which according to critics is the most faithful version to the original (he got a replica of the role of a very successful Cathy Juliette Binoche. Official on Schindler's List).

For starters in Cumbre... Heathcliff is a stray boy who was adopted by the patriarch of a landed family, the Earnshaws, and when he died, he was stripped of his family privileges and became a cruel servant.In love with his half-sister Catherine, his marriage to the heiress of a beautiful family drove him mad.He escapes and when he returns, with any luck, he does so with a vengeance.

The fact is that from our current perspective, Heathcliff should not be a hero, but a monster... but what can I say?His contemporaries also saw him that way.In fact, when the novel was published (which Emily signed under a male pseudonym), no one understood all the violence that Heathcliff displayed in its pages.Charlotte Brontë wrote in the introduction to the play: "Heathcliff shows only one human emotion, and that is not his love for Catherine, which is a terrible and inhuman emotion... No, the only link that connects Heathcliff with humanity is Harton Earnshaw, so little known [...]. Without these characteristics, we cannot say that he is a boy or a talented boy of an experienced monster."

So why are we drawn to Heathcliff?Why do we forgive him for his systematic wickedness? Why is it when he delivers his iconic monologue across the sloughs: "Catherine Earnshaw, may I have no relief as long as I live!—Are we still going on?"

For Sarah Martin Alegre, Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​the answer is quite clear.In her work Heathcliff's Blurry Reflection: Hareton Earnshaw and the Reproduction of Patriarchal Masculinity in Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, she writes: "One has to marvel at the way in which literary criticism has confused [Catherine's] defense of egoism and Heathcliffism. Desperate Love and Not Desperate Love" successive adaptations of Brontë's novel "betray her love for the socialIt tends to read as a story of Heathcliff's "sacrifice" of an ambitious woman.Indeed, Victorian readers had no doubt that Heathcliff was "a monster, a Gothic villain," and "reveals how modern interest readings of Heathcliff appear in the 1930s as a young, handsome, mysterious hero."Martin is dismayed to "see Heathcliff receiving so much sympathy from readers and critics, despite the undeniable evidence of Brontë's brutality."He adds: "We can in no way morally continue to celebrate Heathcliff's heroic love, when he is nothing more than a violent villain, like those who poison our current patriarchal society."

The expert also provides an important key to understanding our attraction to the character; Emily Brontë did not properly calculate the effect Heathcliff's physical attractiveness and the words of certain moments in the novel will have on the readers. To the victims of Heathcliff's terrible revenge when Cathy is lost in the vast but marginal second part of the novel." We want to know what it feels like to be loved so much. Of course, without the bad side of the story...