>HEATHCLIFF WAS BLACK>HEATHCLIFF WAS WHITENo! His ethnicity is deliberately left ambiguous, he has dark hair and eyes, and his skin is somewhat darker than the people he lives with, he's variously compared to a gipsy, someone from the west Indies, an American, a Spaniard, an Indian, and a Chinese person. So he's probably slightly brown, but not sub-saharan african which wouldn't leave a mystery about his origins.ch. i.1>But Mr. Heathcliff forms a singular contrast to his abode and style of living. He is a dark-skinned gypsy in aspect, in dress and manners a gentlemanch. i.6>I declare he is that strange acquisition my late neighbour made in his journey to Liverpool—a little Lascar, or an American or Spanish castaway.’ch. i.7>"I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!”And in the next exchange, the maid, Nelly, says a good heart will make his face look good "[even] if you were a regular black" which clearly indicates he's not a "regular black"ch. i.7>“A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad,” I continued, “if you were a regular black; and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly. And now that we’ve done washing, and combing, and sulking—tell me whether you don’t think yourself rather handsome? I’ll tell you, I do. You’re fit for a prince in disguise. Who knows, but your father was Emperor of China, and your mother an Indian queen, each of them able to buy up, with one week’s income, Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange together?"And about gipsy appearance, a near-contemporary book describes the gipsies living in England at the time>The true gipsies are readily distinguished by their invariable jet-black hair, black sparkling eyes, Indian complexions, and their genuine Oriental language. On the extensive heaths of Surrey, since my residence in that county, I have met with frequent camps of them. In the midland counties, although there is less waste land, they are not unfrequently to be seen>Black eyes and black hair these ladies had ; but they had neither the olive skin, nor the bold, easy degagee air of the gipsy belleWilliam Howitt (1838) The Rural Life of England. Vol 1. pp. 242, 249
Gypsies are pajeets so he was pajeet. When he disappears and comes back with a lot of money, it’s from successful scamming. But in the end he redeems
>>24697051Zoomers don't understand that the civilized world was so white that if you had black hair people euphemistically called you "black."
>>24698199Benjamin Franklin referred to any European living south of Normandy as "swarthy."
‘E weren’t no gyppo‘E were just a scouserWhich is worse.Innit?Simple as
>>24697051I assume we are all here for the new Wuthering Heights blockbuster. What book will next be made into female porn?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIit3k4fnWU
>>24698238>Audience reaction inside the theater was largely mixed, with some visible restlessness, while others were won over. The film, described by one attendee as aggressively provocative and tonally abrasive, leans hard into Fennell’s now-familiar brand of stylized depravity. It’s a deliberately unromantic take on Brontë’s novel, stripped of emotional nuance and full of salacious detours that serve shock value.>There’s hyper-sexualized imagery — far more explicit than any previous adaptation of this material. The film opens with a public hanging that quickly descends into grotesque absurdity, as the condemned man ejaculates mid-execution, sending the onlooking crowd into a kind of orgiastic frenzy. A nun even fondles the corpse’s visible erection. >Later, a woman is strapped into a horse’s reins for a BDSM-tinged encounter. There are several masturbation scenes shot in that now-signature Fennell style—intimate, clinical, and purposefully discomforting. The camera lingers on suggestive textures: egg yolks running through fingers, dough being kneaded with quiet aggression, a slug sliding slowly down glass. It's all so tiresome.
>>24697051He’s called gypsy but I feel like he’s from middle eastern descent.
>>24698199Right, and if you had red hair they called you red, and if you had brown hair they called you brown
>>24697127>Romanians are Indianswow you learn something new every day
>>24699527It's true. Gypsies are nomadic jeets that have been creeping into various empires/nation states for centuries and ripping people off. If the propensity towards scamming didn't tip you off go have a look at their flag.
>>24698606What would a sand-wog be doing in wildest Yorkshire?
>>24701109>he didn’t read the book
>>24699527Romanians are not Romani anymore than either of them are Romans
>>24698219I'm pretty sure this has to do with tanning actually. Burning and turning pink is very, very british. Even scandis tend to brown like normal people. Back when most were out and worked in the sun, anglos probably actually did stand out very notably from other peoples
