Scholarly articles aren't written for the average person; they're written for the people in the know. Within their own field, scholarly articles aren't going to fade from view of academia but they were never in the view of the general population.
If scholarly articles were interpreted for everybody in laymen's terms, would people look deeper into the original text? If simplified, are they any longer scholarly articles?
In the 1992 film, the same actress, Juliette Binoche, played both Catherine Earnshaw and Catherine Linton. In this fashion, Heathcliff can unload his frustration and anger on the daughter like he never could with Cathy; he loved her too much that he couldn't hate her, even though he did. He hated the woman she had been turned into by her brother and the Lintons, the woman who was reserved, proper, everything he wasn't. Heathcliff has the power to destroy that which he hated about Cathy in her daughter and he does.
The 1939 film lacked the portrayal of the second volume of the novel. The audience never gets to see the evolution of Heathcliff's anger into the second generation; therefore it is not as dark as the novel. It becomes a tale of a love interrupted.
Why darken romance? It makes romance more real for girls. It's not just about one love; it is possible to love more than one person but in different ways. There is empirical love, Cathy's love of Linton, and transcendental love, her love for Heathcliff. Empirical love is a practical love, a love of convenience whereas transcendental love exceeds anything and everything that may arise between the lovers. Bronte possible identified with Catherine in wanting two different men for different reasons.
No comments:
Post a Comment