Reviews tagging 'Misogyny'

Woeste Hoogten by Emily Brontë

79 reviews

staghunters's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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WHERE do I even begin? Throws up so many debates and questions and engages in some, while offering others for the reader to answer. Is having a good character something innate, or shaped? Can it be nurtured after being so utterly trampled? I couldn't help but place Heathcliff and Hareton on some axis. Nelly's fondness of the latter and sympathy for the former speak of something, and her plight that Hareton is not as ruined and beyond hope of growth as Heathcliff would've liked him to be, and yet, while Nell doesn't outright voice it, could not the same have applied to Heathcliff? Could a world with more kindness to him have made him a better, happier man?
There's so much more to this, particularly in that every character crafted by Brontë is so full of emotion and motivation, so repulsive and yet so sympathetic. Completely in tune with the human experience.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death

bradley's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Toxic relationship, Grief, Death of parent, Classism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Chronic illness

Minor: Animal cruelty, Kidnapping

ari2_d2's review against another edition

4.0

challenging dark mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Suicide, Kidnapping

thatsmyepiphany's review against another edition

5.0

dark mysterious tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Bullying, Child abuse, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Incest, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Blood, Grief, Death of parent, Toxic friendship

_woodnymph_'s review against another edition

4.0

dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Violence

notdels's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional mysterious sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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I'll be thinking about this one for a while.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Racism

maiqz's review against another edition

3.0

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Classism

gachnar's review against another edition

3.25

dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Confinement, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness

Moderate: Chronic illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Self harm, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Terminal illness, Violence, Religious bigotry

Minor: Animal cruelty

bookishbluejayle's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Complicated

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping

Moderate: Bullying, Misogyny, Sexual violence

Minor: Alcoholism, Death, Incest

sssnowjanus's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional reflective sad medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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my favorite book ever, i wish white people could read.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Child abuse, Confinement, Death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Incest, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Toxic relationship, Violence, Xenophobia, Grief, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Injury/Injury detail, Classism

Moderate: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Infidelity, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Blood, Religious bigotry, Suicide attempt, Colonisation

constant racial abuse towards the male protagonist and misogyny quite literally killed the female protagonist. it's very important that the relationship was doomed by being between a presumably romani brown-skinned man and a british white woman centuries ago. also there's a necrophilia scene, it's more romantic than sexual but that should still be a warning.

there's a strong case for the male protagonist to have been written as a vampire due to the myth's more grounded nature at the time the book was written and various coincidences. vampires were told to be created either by "contagion" (not likely) or suicide. this last possibility is plausible enough with the subtext and the same character kills himself (presumably again) by stopping to eat by the end of his life and the book.