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"Wuthering Heights" illustrated by Isabella Mazzanti for the french collection Papillon Noir Gallimard đ
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thinking about the way that Heathcliff always called Cath1 'Cathy' and Cath2 'Catherine,' while Edgar always called Cath1 'Catherine' and Cath2 'Cathy.'
like, 'Cathy' is a diminutive; it implies a lot of closeness but it also feels somewhat childlike. so it makes sense that Heathcliff would use it for C1; they were childhood friends, and everything about their bond goes back to that childhood. she'll always be Cathy to him. and it also makes sense for Edgar to use that name for C2; she's literally his daughter - and given the way he limits and infantilizes her, he's very reluctant to acknowledge the idea she could ever be anything but a child.
and then 'Catherine' is adult, respectful, but also implies a certain distance. so Edgar uses it for C1, whom he came to know when they were both on the cusp of adulthood. he treats her like a lady, but he'll never have Heathcliff's wild closeness with her. and Heathcliff uses it for C2 because he's deliberately putting that distance between them (and partly, I think, because he's holding her to an adult level of culpability in things she wasn't even born yet for).
but it's also interesting to me that they both change the name they use at all! it's like each of them is trying not to see or treat C2 as if she's C1. which is wild bc in a generational revenge / obsession story like Wuthering Heights, you'd expect C2 to be treated as a stand-in for C1! and in some ways, narratively, she does end up as a double for C1, but it's like Edgar and Heathcliff are both trying to fight that â whether to protect her or to punish her.
â he shall never know how I love him..â
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Would now be a good time to say that if I ever adapted Wuthering Heights, I'd have the main story be Nelly reminiscing to Catherine the Younger and Hareton about Catherine the Elder and Heathcliff? (Complete with Hareton chiming in about the time that Hindley dropped him over the railing: 'I think I remember that!') And Catherine the Elder would only appear very briefly in flashbacks and show up far more as a ghost, and Catherine the Younger would actually see the ghost of her mother; and Heathcliff would only appear in passing, save for the ending when he realises that the next generation have fallen in love, destroying his revenge? No? Not a good time? All righty then.
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What I say: Everythingâs fine.
What Iâm thinking: why does basically every Wuthering Heights adaptation completely ignore the second gen? Even when the adaptation spends time on the second gen, it doesnât even give the second gen justice. Time between the first gen and the second gen should be equal, just like in the book. Heathcliffâs revenge on Hindley is just as important, even less than, his revenge on Edgar. And the effects of Heathcliffâs revenge on those around him is incredibly relevant in the second gen. But hey. It doesnât have the toxicity and obsessiveness of the Heathcliff/Cathy âromanceâ, so what do I know.
they should invent a wuthering heights fandom where you can hate Heathcliff for all the things he did to Isabella and young Cathy in peace
I was 14 the first time I read Wuthering Heights and I remember finding this scene so weird. A thirteen-year-old behaving like a much younger child playing with a doll, and a twelve-year-old behaving like a baby. One thing we see over and over again in this book is children reared in violent homes recreating the violence they are being subjected to, or have been subjected to. And here we see Cathy recreating the excessive level of infantalisation she is being subjected to.
(And the infantalisation is easy to overlook, because next to the violence the other children in the book are treated with it looks benign. But, apart from being coddled and indulged to the degree that it damages her moral and social development, Cathy Linton is very heavily controlled and isolated! She has no friends or peers whatsoever and has never been more than a couple of miles from her house because her father wants to keep her near.)
Also, there are parallels with both Nelly and Hindley here. Hindley also behaves in an inappropriately childish way when a new younger child arrives at the house (crying over the destroyed violin) and then reproduces his father's treatment of him with said younger child. And Nelly is tasked with caring for the much younger Heathcliff - washing him, getting him clean clothes, etc. While Cathy cares for Linton by comforting him when he has been brought to a strange new place after the death of his mother. But she is also playacting at care by treating him like a baby who needs to be helped drink. Pretending to have responsibilities, while the thirteen-year-old Nelly had real ones. And this is a contrast with the end of the novel, where we see Cathy engaging in a useful and necessary act of service for someone else by teaching Hareton how to read.
