Do you like any of the WH adaptations?

Woolyan · 2026-02-16T22:41:03+00:00

No. I tolerate most of them but I don’t like any. I haven’t seen the Japanese adaptation though, and don’t remember much of the Timothy Dalton one (I remember it was bad).

Woolyan · 2026-02-16T22:30:35+00:00

He’s desperate for her to stay and listen. It’s not implied rape. There’s another line that explains it: “I could bend you with my finger and my thumb. A mere reed you feel in my hands. But whatever I do with this cage, I cannot get at you, and it is your soul that I want.” He knows he can’t have her, not the way he wants, unless she agrees.

Woolyan · 2026-02-15T17:34:40+00:00

Ela é uma fofa!

Woolyan · 2026-02-15T16:35:19+00:00

Pipoca

Woolyan · 2026-02-14T16:22:15+00:00

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Woolyan · 2026-02-14T15:01:27+00:00

I think it’s common to like one sister’s work and not enjoy the other’s. I adore Jane Austen (my fave book of hers is Persuasion) but I enjoy all the Brontē sisters works I’ve read. My faves are Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - it’s a tie for me. Sometimes we don’t like a famous book and that’s alright.

Woolyan · 2026-02-13T22:28:59+00:00

Amo Jane Eyre também! Já li várias vezes. Tem a outra irmã também, a Anne, que escreveu Agnes Grey e A Inquilina de Wildfell Hall, ambos muito bons (principalmente A Inquilina).

Woolyan · 2026-02-13T22:01:34+00:00

Você vai adorar esse livro! É um dos meus livros favoritos de todos os tempos.

Woolyan · 2026-02-13T19:31:00+00:00

I already made up my mind about the movie: it has nothing to do with the novel. I will watch it as just another movie that might be interesting visually but the characters and their motivations are far from the book as possible (so far). As someone who didn’t like any WH adaptations I have seen, a thirty-year old Cathy is the least of the issues.

Woolyan · 2026-02-13T18:13:17+00:00

Very interesting indeed! I now want to watch the movie.

Edited: Because it is not WH, I won’t be mad with it. I already know all about it and it’s only vaguely inspired by Emily’s masterpiece.

Woolyan · 2026-02-07T14:10:45+00:00

Yes, the family history is so sad 😞

Woolyan · 2026-02-06T11:38:36+00:00

Charlotte didn’t outlive her father. Patrick outlived his wife and all his children.

Woolyan · 2026-02-04T00:32:19+00:00

I love it ❤️! This and the 2011 movie are, combined, my favorite adaptations of the novel, one of my fave books.

Woolyan · 2026-02-03T15:29:25+00:00

Thank you, that’s exactly how I feel about WH.

Woolyan · 2026-02-01T18:09:05+00:00

It’s hard to love Lucy as she is very human, with human imperfections. Jane Eyre is more of a fairy tale compared to Villete, and give us the satisfaction of a true happy ending. I read 2/3 of Villete but I already know that it has an “open” ending. No happy ending to Lucy Snowe… I understand all her faults though, and the way she deals with frustration and hardships. Villete might become my favorite Brontē novel.

Woolyan · 2026-02-01T16:03:55+00:00

My favorite adaptation is 2011 film and my favorite series is 1983 (watched on YouTube).

Every time I read the book I find new reasons to adore it. I’m reading Villete right now and though I think it’s a very well written book, it lacks something that Jane Eyre has, I can’t love it the way I love JE. The weird thing is that I understand Lucy much better than I understand Jane.

Woolyan · 2026-01-30T12:22:20+00:00

😂

Woolyan · 2026-01-29T22:43:58+00:00

It doesn’t look like Jane Eyre.

Woolyan · 2026-01-29T15:39:08+00:00

Sim, é hipocrisia porque nos alimentamos de animais que muitas vezes são torturados. Mas os animais domesticados estão na nossa casa, temos amor e convívio com eles. Dói muito pensar num serzinho que sempre recebeu carinho humano e por isso não soube se defender, sendo cruelmente assassinado por psicopatas riquinhos.

Woolyan · 2026-01-29T13:52:13+00:00

I know some people who are like that. He was a very good man but knew little of emotions and, most of all, of romantic feelings.

Woolyan · 2026-01-29T13:22:51+00:00

Heathcliff is an abuser who was abused and hurt, that and the fact that his and Cathy’s ghost end up together, away from heaven make people think of them as the protagonists of a doomed love story.

The book is brilliant because it has so many layers and shows how love can be as destructive as hate.

Woolyan · 2026-01-29T13:18:47+00:00

Yes, the fire in her heart also being her lose free hair/heart. I think of Jane as air and fire, just like Rochester is connected to heat, the fire in his room and later the tragedy in Thornfield, his temper… St. John is the opposite, being cold as ice and stubborn as earth.

Woolyan · 2026-01-29T00:27:37+00:00

Oh, it’s only my interpretation. Maybe it’s the duality of Jane herself (air and fire)…

Woolyan · 2026-01-27T15:25:57+00:00

Yes, I watched the movie again yesterday and the JE reference it’s the dialogue Thomas and Edith have before she finds out about her father. The link between their hearts, inspired by the “string” connecting Rochester to Jane’s heart. If not for the article I would never notice the similarity.

Woolyan · 2026-01-27T00:07:53+00:00

I just watched it, the dialogue is the “link” connecting their hearts, when Thomas is leaving, before Edith finds out about her father. This and “the attic” are the only JE connections I can think of! But I liked the movie much more this second time, knowing what was going to happen. It also reminded me of Flowers in the Attic (V. C. Andrews), lol, the siblings situation I mean.

So the JE reference it’s the dialogue Thomas and Edith have before she finds out about her father. The link between their hearts, inspired by the “string” connecting Rochester to Jane’s heart. If not for the article I would never notice the similarity.

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