Wuthering Heights Has Made Us Feral For Yearning. The Reality Isn't As Hot. |
Wuthering Heights Has Made Us Feral For Yearning. The Reality Isn't As Hot.
We're all yearning for, well, yearning – but is it all it cracks up to be in reality?
From hit series such as Heated Rivalry and Bridgerton to the most talked about movie of the moment, Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights, yearning is everywhere right now. Falling in love and living happily ever after? BORING – we want storylines with long, drawn out power dynamics, tortuous emotional restraint and hopefully, a moment of release.
Yearning, as the Cambridge Dictionary defines it, is “a strong feeling of wishing for something, especially something that you cannot have or get easily” – and we can’t get enough of it.
You only have to search #yearning on TikTok to be flooded with videos (245k posts, in fact) to find romanticised clip after clip of Jacob Elordi’s Heathcliff looking miserable on the Moors or videos of Jonathan Bailey’s Anthony Bridgerton staring down a camera with misty-eyes.
Meanwhile, the phrase ‘best yearning scenes’ has been Googled so many times in the last 30 days that it’s been classified as a ‘breakout’ term (Heathcliff’s finger sucking has a lot to answer........