Reviews tagging 'Animal cruelty'

B. J. Harrison Reads Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

164 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

loreleianderson's review against another edition

4.5

dark sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: No

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Unfortunately many call "Wuthering Heights" a love story and many are attracted because of that and end up disappointed and hating the book.

The relationship between Heathcliff and Cathrine is an obsession, a passion, a math between two characters who are monstruos, but not LOVE!

Think about something like "they match each other's freak" but the freak here is there selfishness, monstrosity etc...

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Incest, Violence

Moderate: Addiction, Bullying, Child abuse, Death of parent

Minor: Sexism, Religious bigotry

sladd215's review against another edition

3.0

dark sad tense 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, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Death, Incest

ann_twentyone's review against another edition

4.5

mysterious medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Enjoyed the supernatural elements, the allusion to mental illness and the role of landscape.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Chronic illness, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Kidnapping, Death of parent, Toxic friendship, Classism

Minor: Racism, Rape, Sexual violence, Torture, Religious bigotry, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Gaslighting

sharonbeth's review against another edition

2.75

dark tense 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: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Domestic abuse, Incest

kurage_x's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional sad tense medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Toxic relationship, Violence, Religious bigotry, Classism

wysterie's review against another edition

5.0

dark emotional slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Toxic relationship

Moderate: Death, Physical abuse, Racism, Death of parent

Minor: Animal cruelty, Incest

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

not_that_person's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional mysterious tense 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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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Mental illness, Grief, Death of parent

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Incest, Physical abuse, Racism, Terminal illness, Violence, Pregnancy

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Gore, Blood, Alcohol

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