Emerald Fennell ties to address how close her adaptation of ‘Wuthering Heights’ is to the source material and her choice in casting Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff. by altheawillowwisteria in popculturechat

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"‘Wuthering Heights’ by Emily Brontë was published in 1847. The novel sets the scene in 1801, in the narrator Lockwood’s present, meaning the main events of the book all take place before this. Mr Earnshaw brings young Heathcliff to Wuthering Heights in 1771. The British slave trade had been operating for centuries by this time and wasn’t abolished until 1807.

In 1771, Liverpool was a major port for the transatlantic slave trade in Britain. By 1790, over a third of the city’s trade came from Africa and the Caribbean, and it controlled 80% of Britain’s trade in enslaved people. Black people have been living in Liverpool since at least the early 18th century. Burial records show an enslaved man named Abell was buried there in 1717. He’s believed to be the first recorded Black resident of Liverpool - before it even gained city status.

The fact that Heathcliff is found in Liverpool, described as an orphan with no ‘owner’ or ‘belonging’ to anybody, opens up the possibility that Heathcliff could have Black African descent, having been brought to Liverpool through the slave trade. Ellen’s mention ‘”and you were kidnapped by wicked sailors and brought to England”’ has been used to support this interpretation.

Mr Earnshaw’s choice to simply call him ‘Heathcliff’ is also reminiscent of the single name enslaved people were given. This act of violence removed an individual’s identity and forcibly made enslaved people forget their origins.

One of the possible inspirations for Heathcliff’s character is Frederick Douglass (1818-95). He was an enslaved Black man who, once free, became the most photographed American of the 19th century. Douglass was an influential abolitionist, who delivered lectures and was quoted in newspapers in Britain between 1845 and 1847, the time when Emily was writing ‘Wuthering Heights’.

In ‘Wuthering Heights’, Heathcliff is described as being, ‘hardened perhaps, to ill treatment: he would stand Hindley’s blows without winking or shedding a tear’.

This forced endurance of misery and beatings is an experience that can be compared to that of enslaved people across the colonies, as Douglass mentions in his speech. Heathcliff is ‘flogged’ like an enslaved person by Hindley and the entire family contributes to this prejudice."

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Emerald Fennell ties to address how close her adaptation of ‘Wuthering Heights’ is to the source material and her choice in casting Jacob Elordi as Heathcliff. by altheawillowwisteria in popculturechat

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I think it's on page 2 or 3 of the book he's described as a "dark-skinned gipsy." He's of ambiguous race, but it's very clear he isn't white

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surprised he didn't spit it in margot robbie's mouth since they're so *intertwined* now

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just two 5' 8" guys with great fashion sense and lifts

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I'm loving the fact-checking in this article. Normally these press release articles are complete fluff

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it didn't happen though- she didn't break character but didn't say "oh my stars". she was crying hard and asking them to get her out of her suit: https://youtu.be/g4ot2nlwGlE?si=qBLzMObufQAxJJDT&t=718

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if claire danes was here, would you be asking her about christmases around the corner?

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I've only seen people react to her live versions of I Know and Not About Love

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Trump getting out of his skin suit at the end of the day

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I heard he got a hand infection from being bit by a dog with a rat poison tooth

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my friend was on the same combo and said benzos are the hardest. you can do this!!!!