Finding characters to root for in Wuthering Heights

Offaly Independent announces the forthcoming BBC programme The Brontës: An Irish Tale.

A new television programme entitled 'The Brontës: An Irish Tale', which includes some footage on the Banagher connection with the famous literary family, will be broadcast on Tuesday, February 1 on BBC One Northern Ireland at 10.35 pm.

Aoife Hinds , known to many from top TV shows like 'Derry Girls' and 'Normal People' will present the 30-minute show exploring the strong Irish connections that had a lasting impact on the Brontës, their work and their legacy in locations throughout Ireland and Yorkshire. She is the daughter of respected actor Ciaran Hinds.

Charlotte Brontë and Arthur Bell Nicholls of Banagher married after a long courtship and spent most of their honeymoon in Ireland.

The film will feature locations in Banagher where Arthur lived for forty-five years after Charlotte's death, and discover that it is thanks to Arthur’s love for Charlotte that much of the iconic Brontë memorabilia survives to this day.

The New Yorker reports that there's a new translation of Arabian Nights, reminding readers of the fact that

Translations of “Arabian Nights” have had many devoted readers, from Marcel Proust to Charles Dickens, James Joyce to Charlotte Brontë. (Yasmine Al-Sayyad)

Daily Mail, Spiked and The College Fix both report that the University of Northampton has now put a trigger warning on George Orwell’s 1984. All three mention the fact that Jane Eyre received the same absurd treatment only a couple of weeks of ago in another British university. Honestly, we just hope it's some sort of twisted Orwellian joke.

The Salt Lake Tribune discusses how to help teachers succeed during a pandemic.

Advocating for mentoring might come as a surprise to some of my students. That’s because they know my favorite book is “Wuthering Heights,” a gothic novel about awful characters who often do awful things to each other. It’s been described as a story of “cruelty, inhumanity, and the most diabolical hate and vengeance.”

But literature is a window to help us understand human behavior.

With “Wuthering Heights” we can read and learn what happens when we don’t care and empathize with our fellow man. Our choice, at this time, must be to take a different path and supporting teaching mentoring is the way. (Alexandra Castellanos Smith)

Washington Examiner thinks that 'Eternals scrapes the bottom of the Disney barrel'.

Eternals follows this same template, introducing over 10 new characters to the Marvel cinematic roster. They’re as diverse as a United Nations panel and about equally as entertaining on-screen. Despite acting talents such as Angelina Jolie and Selma Hayek, the writers fail to give any of the characters enough backstory to make them compelling.

Not only that, but for superheroes, none of the characters are the least bit inspiring or even likable. In one scene, at the site of the Hiroshima bombing in 1945, one of the Eternals, bearing a despondent countenance, claims he believes humanity to be irredeemable.

This is an odd choice: picking the retaliatory strike that ended World War II and prevented millions of deaths as the nadir of human morality as opposed to, say, the indiscriminate mass murders at Auschwitz that had been happening for years at that point. You’ll have an easier time finding characters to root for reading Wuthering Heights. (Harry Khachatrian)

Even so Eater Seattle seems to think that Wuthering Heights is a 'cozy' kind of book.

White Horse Tavern

This tiny English-style pub off Pike Place Market’s pedestrian Post Alley has the feel of a village public house in rural Yorkshire. The bar offers a selection of imported English ales — served at room temperature, of course — as well as a respectable collection of blended and single malt whiskies. Grab a pint and sit with your copy of “Wuthering Heights” on one of the velvet couches or browse the tavern’s shelves stocked with collectible books. (Andrew Engelson)

According to Bustle, the quote from Jane Eyre 'I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will' 'exudes Gemini energy' (yeah, whatever).