Thursday, December 10, 2009

Love Is Creepy! (I have proof)

Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte

"1. When Cathy marries Edgar "Girly-Boy" Linton instead of him, Heathcliff vows to take revenge on Edgar and his family ( because obviously Cathy had nothing to with it. Ahem). Heathcliff sees his opportunity when he finds out Edgar's sister has a mad crush on him. He quickly seduces her, strangles her little dog just because that's how dating went back in those days (or maybe I misunderstood), and starts treating her like a servant the instant he marries her. Good times.

2.When the son of that union turns out to be even more sickly and whiny and incredably annoying than even his Uncle Edgar, Heathcliff basically torments the boy into an early grave(although frankly, we can't blame him for that. Heathcliff's son could possibly be the most irritating character in all of literature).

3.Speaking of graves, when Cathy dies, Heathcliff tries to dig up her body so he can sleep next to it all night. And he tells himself that if he wakes up and finds her stiff and cold, he'll just pretend it's because the wind is particularly icy that night. Ewww. Let's leave the body where it is, shall we, lover boy?"
-A New Dawn by Ellen Hopkins
Page 143

Review any love song or romance novel and if you really listen and look, you will find creepy stalker loser men or obsessive creepy stalker women in them. Def Leopard... thanks but I do not really want you to always be two steps behind. EVERYWHERE I GO!(Think about it).

1 comment:

  1. A correction here: the author is Emily not Charlotte Bronte :)

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