Does any one know what the phrase "I am your heathcliffe" mean?

TIA

 

Something to do with Wuthering Heights I suspect.

If not the Cosby Show.

 

In the novel by Emily Bronte, Cathy and Heathcliffe have a passionate relationship. It is intense and almost violent. Cathy cries out in despair at Heathcliffe when he leaves and runs off into the night. She comments '"I am Heathcliffe": thus showing how close and how inextricably , the two of them are linked. She is in his heart and soul as indeed he is in hers. They cannot be separated as they are as one.

Hope that helps! lol

 

What a brilliant answer

And first thing on a Sunday morning , too .
I doff my hat to you , young lady . (hatsoff) (respect)

 

Hee heee, look at my avator Kev!
I am Emily Bronte's no 1 fan as indeed, I am of all the Brontes.

 

Even Patrick & Branwell ???

I know nothing of the family , or their works , except for the basics . But I love listening to people who have passion for literature .

 

Yes, Patrick was the father. He came from a poverty stricken upbringing in Ireland and educated himself, he married a woman who had the same passion for education and self learning as he. The Brontes were all geniuses in their own right. Branwell, the son lived in the shadow of his sisters' genius and there is the famous portrait he did of the 4 of them, where he painted himself out of it. He later turned to drugs and drink and destroyed himself . How the Bronte girls could write about such passions and dark themes such as wife beating, love, alcohol abuse and drugs, violence and aggression when they lived such shelterd lives is beyond most scholars comprehension. Get yourself and your family off to Haworth for a brilliant day out. You can see everything about the Brontes there and visit their home. I go at least twice a year, once in winter and again in the summer. Wuthering Heights is the best book ever written, certainly on a par with Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, but the enigma that is the Brontes will live on forever. I envy you so much if you have never read the books or been to Haworth, as you have it all there for you to enjoy for the first time you lucky, lucky thing

 

Either that

or she's barking mad!

 

Who?
Me or Emily?
We are both misguided geniuses lol!

 

I was meaning Cathy

I've sent you PM

 

I have been to Haworth

But , probably due to the fact that I haven't read any of their works , it didn't really have any spiritual impact on me .
There's only one thing for it , Tina . I'm going to read the books . It'll play havoc with my macho image , though !!!

 

Or did they really lead such sheltered lives?</p>

As you say, to have written with such passion without any experience of the subject matter is hard to comprehend - so was the reality of their lives different from the commonly accepted 'facts'?</p>

 

The father being a priest, he would have encountered those types of people through the course of his work in the parish, maybe talked about it,.