Going by its trailer, the latest Wuthering Heights adaptation, starring Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi, seems in danger of Fifty Shades of Grey-ing an immortal classic. The movie may possibly be better, but the trailer suggests director Emerald Fennell has interpreted the novel as ‘hot people make abuse sexy’.

When Wuthering Heights was first published in 1847, it was panned for its “shocking pictures of the worst forms of humanity”. One century and some cultural evolution later, it became a celebrated tale of passion, of an all-possessing love that consumes and destroys.

Both the views are wrong, and very unfair to our girl Emily Bronte.

Wuthering Heights is a great love story, sure. But I put to you that people tend to focus on the wrong couple, and love and hate the book for the

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