2024-09-26 15:13:59
There is no definitive evidence that Heathcliffe was black, and to categorically state otherwise is to ignore vital context- lived experience of Bronte who lived and died in monoculture, 19thC rural Yorkshire, and the similar setting and ambiguous text of Wuthering Heights [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(22-1-12) Author
2024-09-26 15:23:02
NNN Heathcliff is described as a person of colour, resembling a "gypsy" with "dark hair, dark eyes, and dark skin". It would make historical sense since England has had a diverse population since Roman times and specially in the century depicted due to colonization. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(15-1-22) Author
2024-09-26 20:31:10
NN, he's literally described "as white as the wall behind him" in the novel [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(20-1-1) Author
2024-09-26 22:11:38
It is anachronistic to describe Heathcliffe as a person of colour in the modern sense. He is described as dark but this doesn't to a Victorian, mean black or brown in the sense we use it now. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(45-0-4) Author
2024-09-27 04:28:25
Heathcliff is described as having dark skin and being a "gypsy" in the book, the term widely understood as a racial slur against the Romani people. Heathcliff isn't white. CURRENTLY_RATED_NOT_HELPFUL(0-0-0) Author
2024-09-27 12:08:16
Regarding the NNN justification by Innovative Seedlings Mousebird: despite the quotes around "dark hair, dark eyes, and dark skin", it’s easy to determine that this phrase occurs nowhere in the text of the book. Even the shorter phrase “dark skin” does not occur a single time. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(2-1-0) Author
2024-09-27 19:25:36
NNN- this is a persons opinion, if you would like to express yours then use the comment section. Using “white as a wall” out of context is also dumb when it’s actually used to describe heatcliffs shock to Cathy’s confession to nelly ?? Next you’ll be saying Othello wasn’t black NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(0-0-1) Author