What Brexit shares with Mrs Rochester

EchoLive (Ireland), with the help of Charlotte Brontë, summarises quite precisely what 2021 has been like:

Charlotte Brontë, author of Jane Eyre, wrote: “I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
And upwards seems like a good direction after the chaos that was 2021. There’s no doubt the future looks more uncertain than ever, and making plans for 2022 may feel like an exercise in futility. (Nicola DePuis)

And this letter to The Telegraph & Argus is also a fitting description of what Brexit is and has been:

Sir - Many of your readers will be familiar with the storyline of Jane Eyre that features Bertha, the first Mrs Rochester. The latter was once beautiful but became insane and destructive and was kept locked in a secret room in the large Rochester house. Since Bertha was a clear embarrassment, Mr Rochester never referred to her and she remained hidden away.
In a like manner Conservatives now shy away from mentioning Brexit. The whole business of the UK leaving the EU has become an embarrassment. At one point perceived by “Leavers” as desirable and to be embraced, Brexit is now tucked away, out of sight and avoided by ministers and back benchers as a topic for discussion.
Brexit shares with Mrs Rochester the twin characteristics of being both insane and destructive. As an editorial in The Irish Times succinctly put it: “...no state in the modern era has committed such a senseless act of self-harm”. (John Cole)

How 2021 didn't turn into the year we wanted it to be is the subject of this article in The Cut:

Bindu Bansinath: I tried romanticizing my life like TikTok told me to! I was working on my thesis and thought of myself as a Brontë sister — far from the center of things, and largely at home — but then I’d look in the mirror with my topknot and pimple cream and think, I’m not a Brontë, and this is not romantic.

iNews reviews Mothers, Fathers, and Others by Siri Hustvedt:

Elsewhere, digressions – on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights or story-telling itself – mean that Mothers, Fathers, and Others will resound most profoundly with readers who share the author’s academic interests. (Emily Watkins)

The most awaited 2022 movies according to The Irish Sun:

Emily
Emily tells the imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Bronte.
The film stars Emma Mackey as Emily, a rebel and misfit, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights.
Line of Duty’s Adrian Dunbar also stars in the period drama, directed by Frances O’Connor. (Nicola Pardon)

The Good Men Project mentions Heathcliff when talking about Fifty Shades of Grey:

In the novel Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff is a handsome, anti-social, cruel, abusive, narcissistic and self-absorbed guy who falls deeply in love with a woman of less than laudable character herself. Christian Grey seems to be superficially based on Heathcliff. (Daniel Gauss)

Le Monde asks some writers about the books they like to gift, Daniel Pennac says:

Les années précédentes, ce furent D’acier, de Silvia Avallone (Liana Levi, 2011), où deux gamines traversent ensemble une adolescence tourmentée pendant l’effondrement assourdissant de l’Italie industrielle. Il y avait dans ce roman une puissance de jeune fille aussi troublante que celle d’Emily Brontë écrivant Les Hauts de Hurlevent. (Translation)