(hey girls)ain't heathcliff hot?

[Wilde woman]

You are not by any means trying to take the love of my life away, are you!

Not at all. But (random fact), I just realized I'm going to a university with his name. So I'll be in Rochester.

I actually prefer Darcy, though we could probably argue to no end on that question.

[Mudkip]

I'm not into abusive guys.

And he IS abusive. He tricked me into maintaining some sympathy for him-- until (SPOILER)
he locked Cathy Jr up. He may have changed at the end, but that was unforgivable.

[bouquin]

I felt a lot of sympathy for Heathcliff while he was a young boy; however, he was too ruthless by the time he became an adult... Ergo, not my type!

What does he die of?

[mona amon]

**SPOILERS**

As far as I remember, he goes kind of crazy, sees Catherine's ghost all the time, which prevents him from eating or sleeping, and dies of starvation and sleep deprivation. Or alternatively, Catherine's ghost really does appear to him, and prevents him from eating and sleeping till he dies and joins her.

[kelby_lake]

I don't think Heathcliff is meant to be attractive. I certainly wouldn't.

[Anne Catherick]

What can I say? We all have more than a bit of Heathcliff in us, eh?

The cool thing about Jane Eyre, is that Bronte wrote it based largely on her own past experiences, in my opinion. Her life followed a similar pattern to that of Jane's, except on one point....she didn't marry the master of the house she was governess at. I suspect she fell in love with him, but never made him aware of her feelings. Jane Eyre is just a manifestation of her romantic fantasies about her unrequited love.

For Charlotte's dreams, desires and unrequited love, we should look to Vilette, not Jane Eyre, a more powerful, more poigant, more tragic book than it's better known sister.