If you've read both Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights - Rochester or Heathcliff?

[siriusedward]

rochester..!!!!

hate heathcliff

[SherryRose]

siriusedward wrote: "rochester..!!!!

hate heathcliff"

Me too! But I love the book!

[Paula]

I prefer Rochester to Heathcliff by far (which isn't the same as preferring 'Jane Eyre' to 'Wuthering Heights' as novels). His love for Jane was such that he'd never willingly hurt her, and longed to protect. Heathcliff's savagery on the other hand, even extended to Catherine. And the way a man treats other people has to come under consideration with a question like this.

Sure, Rochester had a few flings with lovers, but he didn't give the impression that he was using the women just for the sake of it. He felt himself to be in love with Celine Varens when she revealed her true colours, and the fact that he took Adele under his roof even believing in his heart that she wasn't his child speaks a lot for him. He even lost his hand and sight attempting to save Bertha's life when she set the place on fire.

Heathcliff, on the other hand, was nasty all through. The way he treated the second Cathy, Hareton, and his own son Linton, just for revenge, is something I don't believe Rochester could ever have brought himself to do.

I've got to go with what Rochester said to Jane. 'Nature intended to me to be a good man really,' (or something like that). I don't believe the same could be said about Heathcliff.

[SherryRose]

Very well said Paula.

[Pallavi]

☯Emily wrote: "Hindley is certainly despicable and unattractive. I felt sympathetic towards Heathcliff until he used and abused Isabella, Hareton, and young Catherine."

Exactly my thoughts. He doesn't have any redeeming quality as basic humanity towards others . He tricked Isabella into marrying him , He near imprisoned Young Catherine and depraved Hareton of a good education which every child deserves. He was a literary sociopath.

[Natalia]

For me, the best is Rochester. Heathcliff is too intense for me and very dark. Rochester is dark, but kind in deep, I love how Jane found this qualities in him :)

[siriusedward]

Paula wrote: "I prefer Rochester to Heathcliff by far (which isn't the same as preferring 'Jane Eyre' to 'Wuthering Heights' as novels). His love for Jane was such that he'd never willingly hurt her, and longed ..."

Well said Paula.and i think Cathy is the same too.in that sense Cathy and Heathcliff were made for each other.i liked Cathy 2 and Linton in the story , if i remember correctly

Sherry wrote:

Me too! But I love the book!"

The book was good.i disliked Scarlett but loved gone with the wind

[Kathleen]

Both! ;-)

[Grace]

I mean, realistically speaking, neither of them would be my ideal choice for a boyfriend or hubby, and both of them fucked up pretty bad, but Rochester.

Heathcliff was a fucking sociopath who I could never see myself falling for. Rochester, on the other hand, did seem to deeply and genuinely love Jane enough to redeem himself, even when she was no longer there by his side and I really hate the morality pet trope. He certainly started off as being cowardly for lying to Jane to attempt to tie the knot due to his own self-loathing and selfish desire to hold on to her, but he never meant her any harm. Plus, I’m a sucker for “Beauty and the Beast” style “love redeems” stories in which true love has the power to inspire redemption, which Jane Eyre partially was as a novel.

[Toast]

Heathcliff every time. Every girl loves a bad boy right?
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[Strawberry]

Mr Rochester definitely! Sure he had his flaws, but he isn't cruel and tyrannical like Heathcliff!