{"id":269191,"date":"2026-01-28T23:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269191\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T23:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:51:14","slug":"wuthering-heights-is-a-blueprint-for-toxic-relationships-writes-author-emily-hourican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/269191\/","title":{"rendered":"Wuthering Heights is a blueprint for toxic relationships writes author Emily Hourican"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Margot Robbie stars in a new film of Wuthering Heights but does the gothic tale of passion and revenge set young people up for heartbreak and pain?\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the remake of 'Wuthering Heights'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/91d37450-7552-4c87-a6ee-5745a65c1223.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the remake of &#8216;Wuthering Heights&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Wuthering Heights is many things \u2013 a study in generational abuse and trauma, a revenge saga, social commentary, an exploration of women\u2019s lack of rights, even an early exploration of non-binarism \u2013 but somehow, what we have taken from it is a love story. Which is weird, and toxic, given the actions of the so-called \u201clovers\u201d within it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">There is absolutely nothing gentle or self-sacrificing or supportive about the love between Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff (who never gets any second name). This is not love that is \u201cpatient\u201d, nor \u201ckind\u201d, as the Bible describes it. Nor is it Shakespeare\u2019s version, in Sonnet 37 \u2013 \u201cLook what is best, that best I wish in thee.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Margot Robbie stars in a new film of Wuthering Heights but does the gothic tale of passion and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269192,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,49550,93,61,60,3184,6361],"class_list":["post-269191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-emily-hourican","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-leaving-certificate","tag-life-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}