![]() ![]() ![]() Emily is both shocked and inspired when she sees the words Freedom in thought tattooed in floating script on his forearm. ![]() The sheltered and clearly eccentric Emily adores her younger sister Anne (Amelia Gething), whose extravagant imagination dovetails with her own, and older brother Branwell ( Fionn Whitehead), a painter and aspiring writer who strives to live by romantic ideals. Emma Mackey (Sex Education) plays Emily, the next-to-youngest daughter of an uptight Yorkshire curate (Adrian Dunbar), long widowed. We know relatively little about the woman who wrote Wuthering Heights, but Frances O’Connor’s directorial debut, Emily-which blends fact with fanciful fiction-paints a haunting and sympathetic portrait of the person she might have been. It’s a book you either embrace forever or want to burn after reading. ![]() But as chilling as Charlotte Brontë’s mad-wife-in-the-attic yarn may be, her sister Emily’s book-a story of melancholic obsession, of love that seeps into the soil of the grave, of pearl gray skies and majestic, gnarled tree branches-speaks to even darker recesses of the human spirit. You probably know right off the bat whether you’re a Wuthering Heights person or a Jane Eyre person. 23In order to conclude on Wuthering Heights, we can say that the worldwide success of the novel has shown that Emily Bronts apprehension of the gothic. ![]()
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