With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
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After making her name with Red Road and Fish Tank, two superb dramas of modern British life, director Andrea Arnold takes on Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights with unknowns Kaya Scodelario as Cathy and — the first black actor to play the role — James Howson as Heathcliff. (Nick Funnell)Kaya Scodelario was not an unknown, though.
When "Fifty Shades" begins, the heroine's favorite pastime is to curl up with a good book, not a whip. After the hero asks her to sign a contract defining her role as his submissive, she tells the reader, "[Austen's] Elizabeth Bennet would be outraged, [Brontë's] Jane Eyre too frightened and [Hardy's] Tess would succumb, just as I have."The New York Daily News Pageviews discusses 'how we are raising a generation of illiterates':
Insistent references like this remind us that "Fifty Shades" is recycling the classic novel plot about a vulnerable young woman and a brooding older man. The hero has the lion's share of socioeconomic power; the heroine has only her magnetic strength and intelligence. (April Alliston and Susan Celia Greenfield)
Not only that, but some openly celebrate the demise of serious literature. “I don’t like Shakespeare,” writes novelist Dan Gutman in the report’s [What Kids Are Reading] confounding foreword, confessing to never having finished “Madame Bovary,” “Don Quixote,” “Wuthering Heights” and “Ulysses.” With the ease of a supermarket shopper choosing between detergents, he calls “The Great Gatsby” dull. (Alexander Nazaryan)The York Press and the Yorkshire Post report that,
It was also confirmed that this year’s Chelsea Flower Show would play host to a Brontës’ Yorkshire Garden. (Mark Casci)The Chelsea Flower Show takes place from May 22nd to May 26th and the Brontës' Yorkshire Garden should be interesting to see, given the lack of green fingers the Brontë girls had.
The Chelsea garden is based on the landscape that inspired the Bronte family - and hopefully it will help to spread the word about the beauty of Yorkshire.
ReplyDeleteI had heard that gardening wasn't their strong point, but the landscape and wild plants were referred to many times in their work.