Oh, I'm totally going to put up that poll :D Heathcliff, well... I see how that kind of intense willing-to-rip-the-world-apart-for-someone passion is attractive in its way, but he's really not my type. (However, I think WH earns major points by presenting him as fucked-up and destructive, and showing explicitly via Isabella Linton that assuming he's actually a tragic Byronic hero who just needs wuv will only lead to sorrow and pain and bleakness.)
OTOH, I think Rochester's hot, but one of my most disturbing teaching moments was when my students got into a virtual slap-fight over Wide Sargasso Sea. "That is NOT Rochester! Rochester is NOT that much of a bastard!" Um, were we reading the same Jane Eyre?
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Date: Monday, 20 October 2008 11:22 pm (UTC)From:OTOH, I think Rochester's hot, but one of my most disturbing teaching moments was when my students got into a virtual slap-fight over Wide Sargasso Sea. "That is NOT Rochester! Rochester is NOT that much of a bastard!" Um, were we reading the same Jane Eyre?