Gordon ~ You poor deluded fool ~ I feel almost sorry for you

[Snoopy]

So Gordon Brown thinks he is an older, wiser version of Heathcliffe.

Well ~
leaving aside the glossy romantic hero image fostered, incorrectly, by a number of Hollywood movies and by Cliff Richard in a musical over the years those that have read Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights will be aware that Heathcliff is a foul tempered control freak, close to insanity, who dug up his lover's remains. He was a domestic abuser, brooding, sulky and utterly ruthless in his pursuit of his desires. He may also have been a murderer (but the reader is left to deduce this).

The poor, sad, deluded man in Number Ten is much more like Macbeth, dithering, incompetent, pussy whipped, confused, insanely jealous of his betters and totally unable to accept his own destiny as, at best, second place in the kingdom.

Oh and Heathcliffe was from Yorkshire, Macbeth from Scotland.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/labour/2276428/Gordon-Brown-%27I%27m-just-like-brooding-Emily-Bronte-character-Heathcliff%27.html

[Bar Wench]

Heathcliffe may have been all that but he was soooo swoony. 

[Nick]

 

Worrying

[Nick]

In Wuthering Heights, published in 1847, Heathcliff is an embittered figure who treats most others with cruelty and contempt.

 

[Snoopy]

Clearly Broon has not read the bloody book ~ prolly only seen the movies.

[Nick]

I haven't read it for years (1975 in fact) , but Heathcliff always seemed like a nasty piece of work to me

[Snoopy]

I haven't read it for years (1975 in fact) , but Heathcliff always seemed like a nasty piece of work to me

I blame Laurence Olivier .... he had to make Heathcliffe the attractive hero in the film because he was too far up his own arse to be willing to play the character as written. Nevertheless it would be nice if the man in charge had read the book or better yet kept his mouth shut on a subject that he knew nothing about. Unlike Blair he keeps on handing out ammunition to the press.

[Nick]

I am not sure that Heathcliff has an e at the end 

[Snoopy]

I'm sure you are right. Depends where you look. I hedged my bets in the op by using both. Wenchy elected to go with the e ~ but let's not get hung up in pedantry .... the PM has made an arse of himself again. If you read the report by the actual interviewer in the New Statesman it strongly suggests that he led Brown straight into the trap.

[Bar Wench]

I think you are right actually. 

Heathcliff is a bastard yes however, I think one of the reasons why he is attractive to women is because of the overwhelming love he felt for Catherine. Although he was a malevolent man what woman wouldn't want to be loved with such a total all consuming passion?

[Nick]

Mrs Nick #1 was called Catherine. 

And she loved that book 

[Bar Wench]

It's a fab book. One of my favorites too.

[Nick]

I see you favour American spellings too!

[Bar Wench]

That is what three years in an american school during your formative years will do to you. Both I and Brother Wench have problems in that area. I also pronounce some words strangely thanks to that time too.

[Nick]

What words?