sssnowjanus 's review for:

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

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.