Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights: Are Cathy and Heathcliff Brother and Sister?

Are Cathy and Heathcliff brother and sister in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights? [Complete version]

The doomed love between Cathy and Heathcliff is one of the romantic high spots of English literature. But what if they were brother and sister?

This video examines the evidence hidden ...in plain sight — the impossible journey from Liverpool, the greatcoat in summer, the name of a dead child — and asks whether Brontë deliberately hinted at something too taboo to state openly.

Also: is Nelly Dean actually the villain of Wuthering Heights?

0:00 Introduction
0:23 Are Catherine and Heathcliff siblings?
0:44 The novel as seen through the lens of the 1939 movie version
1:07 Heathcliff's cruelty
1:48 Catherine's "wicked rages"
2:26 Nelly Dean as villain
3:26 Unreliable narrator
3:41 Heathcliff's arrival at Wuthering Heights
3:56 A reading
7:00 Distances
7:50 The starving Heathcliff
8:25 Brontë's familiarity with the landscape
9:04 Earnshaw "tried" to tell "a tale"
9:34 Harvest time and a greatcoat
9:54 Heathcliff's name
10:00 Extratextual evidence
10:13 Poverty in Liverpool
10:27 Romani travellers
10:53 Romani women supposed prostitutes
11:17 Fabricated stories and illegitimate children
11:30 Adele Varens in Jane Eyre
11:48 Incest as taboo
12:48 Incestuous bonding
13:18 Emily and Branwell: unfounded rumours
14:03 Conclusion

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